The loss of a brother or a sister is not always understood to be as painful as the loss of a parent or a child. Kindred Angels is to help the brother or sister understand that their loss is just as important. A parent losing a child can be so overwrought with grief that the children are left to deal with their grief alone.
Siblings often feel the guilt of being the surviving child.
Their parents grief is so overwhelming they may feel that the love for them is not quite as strong. The sibling might also see their parents marriage suffer, perhaps even end. This is an additional trauma to the surviving sibling. Losing a brother or a sister is losing a part of themselves. Being together since birth, they too feel the emptiness, the loss of the family unit they have always known.