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LONDON — For children in Bangladesh, losing a mother — but not a father — can be deadly, according to a new study published today in the British medical journal Lancet.
Researchers in Bangladesh, Britain and the U.S. used data from population surveys from 1982 to 2005 in Matlab, Bangladesh, to follow what happened to more than 144,800 children. Of those, nearly 15,000 died by age 10.
The experts found that children whose mothers died had about a 24 percent chance of making it to age 10. Those who didn’t lose their mothers had about an 89 percent chance. And for children whose fathers died, there was no effect.
