Name for a parent who loses a child?

If you lose a husband or wife, you are a widow or widower, if you lsoe your parents you are an orphan...





What is it called when a parent loses a child?Name for a parent who loses a child?
We have no name for such a loss - they are simply ';the bereaved';.Name for a parent who loses a child?
I agree with the person above me in that we have no word for a parent who looses a child.





I would just call them a ';mourner'; or someone that's ';in mourning';.
It's a very interesting question. I suggest we should make up one right now then send that word to Whom It May Concern so that it will be in our dictionary.





How about bereaver?
that happening is too horrible to have a word