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🗓️ 6 November 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | What's going on? |
0:03.1 | Why are our kids killing themselves? |
0:05.4 | Let's look at some of the stats in this article. |
0:07.4 | This is in Wall Street Journal. |
0:08.6 | Youth suicide rate increased 56% in a decade. |
0:12.8 | The CDC says death rates due to suicide in homicide |
0:16.0 | amongst persons aged 10 to 24, 2017. |
0:19.8 | So we've got some graphs here. |
0:21.5 | Let me show you these graphs. |
0:23.3 | If they just look at the entire group 10 to 24, |
0:27.3 | for the first time ever, suicide has bypassed homicide. |
0:31.6 | Up until this moment in history, |
0:33.9 | homicides were always higher than suicides. |
0:36.7 | But then you can see right around 2009, 2010, |
0:40.7 | this shift begins, homicide sort of plateaus. |
0:44.0 | It stays where it's at, but suicide is clearly rising. |
0:48.0 | Then they break these graphs down into more definitive age groups. |
0:51.6 | Look at 10 to 14 folks. |
0:53.9 | 10 to 14. My son's 11. |
0:56.4 | I can't even imagine why a child at age |
0:59.1 | would be considering killing themselves. |
1:00.9 | Look at this skyrocketing up. |
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