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Thank you for the welcome. I do not recall where I first came across these statistics, but if you go to CNN and put in teen suicide it should bring up a link showing that 1 in 6 have considered suicide and 1 in 12 are reported to have attempted it
I thought you meant teenagers who had committed suicide, not those who had thought of it or attempted it. For the source you gave, I could not locate it. However I did find this report from last year which indeed quotes the figures you gave....http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/1-12-teens-attempted-suicide-report-article-1.1092622
As you will note the majority of these cases are as a result of some type of bullying. I`m not sure how you, in turn, blame this on the breakdown of the American family however.
I am more inclined to think the bullying should be better addressed in the first instance and the individual targeted, better supported. Let us see how this might effect the despair that forces these young people to think on suicide.
Again this can be traced back to the breakdown of the family in America.
You may also note from the above link, that the highest rates are from Hispanic females. Now as we know, Hispanic families are as a rule, a close knit unit..usually high in traditional family values for the most part as I understand it. So again, I`m not sure how you blame the family here either.