Geoffrey Ream, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Ph.D., Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2005)
Posted on 02/22/2019 12:27:36 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Youth 12 to 14 years old who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender are much more likely to die by suicide than their heterosexual peers, a disparity that persists but becomes less pronounced by early adulthood, a U.S. study suggests.
While 24 percent of the suicide deaths in the 12 to 14 age group were among LGBTQ youth in 2013-2015, this dropped to 8 percent of suicides among young adults 25 to 29 years old, researchers report in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
Higher suicide rates among LGBTQ youth have been documented before, but the current analysis of suicide deaths over two years among Americans 12 to 29 years old offers fresh insight into what factors are most likely to contribute to these fatalities, said study author Geoffrey Ream of Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.
Compared to heterosexual young men, lesbians and bisexual females were more than twice as likely to have prior suicide attempts, and transgender males were almost four times as likely to have such a history.
Bisexual females were most likely to have a history of suicidal thoughts, however, at rates more than six times higher than heterosexual males. Bisexual females were also almost 24 times more likely to have a diagnosed mental illness.
Family problems most often contributed to suicides among younger people and gay men in the study, while relationship challenges with intimate partners were more often a factor for older people and lesbians.
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Geoffrey Ream, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Ph.D., Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2005)
Reaping the whirlwind.
Odd, the article’s title specifies PRE-teens, then goes on about those in the 12-29 YOA demographic. I also love the “weasel-word” MAY.
Can you say “misleading propaganda”? Sure you can!
That’s because they’re told by perverted liberals that they should be proud to be emotionally confused and on the road to mental instability.
Less than 1 in 4 NBC news commentaries may have a basis in actual facts.
Really sad when any young person commits suicide. Yet you have to wonder if all the social pressure to embrace decadence, hedonism, drug use, homosexuality and chronic dependence contributes to depression, confusion and a sense of hopelessness. The country has changed dramatically in the past fifty years and many are not coping well to the new sick realities.
Molested children with coping problems is much more likely the cause.
Who knew.
Persons that become LGBTQ have been hurt and traumitized. They are hurt. With a heavy dose of self-loathing.
So yeah, they are gonna attempt suicide at relatively high rates.
The problem isn’t so much their LGBT condition (though it does have some intrinsic problems) but the TRAUMA THAT CAUSED THE LGBT condition and a VARIETY OF OTHER MALADIES.
LGBT condition is one symptom among several in the hurt, damaged, ill person.
Yup - he’s a pole smoker.
Probably because they have all this confusion pushed on them at a young age.
Zhey are confused, and the incessant LGBTQetc propaganda is often responsible.
The mentally ill have always been a high suicide risk.
“MAY BE”
Anything “MAY BE”!
Great work you imbecile.
Well sucks to be them I guess..a self correcting error...
Yes you are right, I have compassion for those young people who took their own lives. What I should have said is that we as a society are reaping the whirlwind.
what’s the bad news?
I’ll say it again, homosexuals were never healthier, on the whole, as when homosexual conduct was universally condemned and criminalized in society.
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