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 We seldom want to look at the statistics about suicide in children and young people, but they are important to consider. As parents and educators we lean to disregard this subject, pretending it doesnt occur in good families. The belief is that suicide happens only in anxious families to anxious children.At the ChildSpirit Conference I attended in November, Joseph Chilton Pearce, writer of many books counting The Magical Child, gave us a startling statistic. Suicide is the third foremost reason of loss among children and young people. This number includes only the young people who succeed, not those who effort and live.He said this is unprecedented in the account of humankind. Never before have we witnessed children finish their own life in such numbers.Additional facts from the American Academy of Youngster and Adolescent Psychiatry: Suicide is the third foremost r... |
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