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Teenage Suicide: United States
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Boys committed suicide at a much higher rate than girls during the 1990s-at 61 per 100,000, nearly five times the rate of 13 per 100,000 among teenage girls. Girls... are much more likely to attempt suicide. State trauma registry data from 1994 through 1998 show that while 80 percent of actual teen suicides in Alaska were among boys, 72 percent of suicide attempts were among girls. 1
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Some researchers attribute teenage suicide to the weakening of the family unit. They argue that economic and political institutions have penetrated it, reducing it to a consumer unit no longer able to function as a support system, and no longer able to supply family members with a sense of stability and rootedness (Suicide and Attempted Suicide, 1974). Awareness of the existing state of the world, now threatened by sophisticated methods of destruction, can cause depression which contributes to the adolescent's sense of frustration, helplessness, and hopelessness (Smith, 1979). Faced with these feelings and lacking coping mechanisms, adolescents can become overwhelmed and turn to escapist measures such as drugs, withdrawal, and ultimately suicide.
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The rate of teenage suicide doubled between 1960 and 2001. Teen sexual activity ... dramatically increased during that period. But those two statistics just COULDN'T be related...could they? Let's examine the facts:
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You can see, by these teenage suicide statistics, that thousands of young lives are being affected daily by the tragic results of suicides. The only way to change this is to step in and do your part.
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