Abstract
Objectives: To elucidate the content of the explanations to the siblings by the parents when their mothers were rooming-in with child suffering from cancer,we interviewed 18 mothers using semi-structured method . All of them passed 2 years or less after the discharge from K. University hospital. The data analyzed revealed : (1) the parents explained in 18 of 18 families (100 %); (2)the attitudes of the parents were divided in 2, child centered and parent centered . The latter group included the parent's attitudes which lost the emotional control.
