With unprecedented childhood poverty rates, an explosion in the identification of attention deficit disorder, recent reports of soaring
teenage suicide rates, one thing is clear: the violation of childhood knows no boundaries.
Public schools would be healthy and
teenage suicide rates would be going down; not up.
Not exact matches
In the last ten years, the
suicide rate among
teenage girls worldwide has doubled.
From 1960 to 1988 standardized test scores fell significantly,
teenage suicide and homicide
rates more than doubled and obesity increased by 50 percent.
Between 1960 and 1970 the fall in test scores, the doubling of
teenage suicide and homicide
rates, and the doubling share of births to unwed mothers can not be attributed to economic adversity.
This girl's unfortunate death is part of a worrisome uptick in the
rate of teen
suicides, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report has increased 30 percent for
teenage boys in the last 40 years and has doubled for
teenage girls.
UNICEF and The New York Times reports that Russia has the third highest
rate — 22 per 100,000 — of
teenage suicide after Belarus and Kazakhstan.