https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/21/uk-17-year-olds-mental-health-crisis
This article covers a new UK study showing amongst other things that about 7% of UK children have attempted suicide by age 17. The figures appear to show, on my cursory analysis, that self harm and suicide attempts are higher among girls than boys, which surprisingly for The Graun it doesn't go heavy on, and there's even a photo of a boy illustrating the article. But the shocker for me was this quote:
In the UK, suicide rates among young people have been increasing in recent years. The suicide rate for young females is now at its highest rate on record.
Going to the link attached https://media.samaritans.org/documents/SamaritansSuicideStatsReport_2019_Full_report.pdf
I see the actual figures and in 2017 for 15-19 year olds deaths per 100,000, males 7.6, females 3.5. So males over twice as many deaths. In 2018 males 9.0, females 4,4. So male rate again more than twice females, male rate has increased by 1.4, female by 0.9. But the way The Guardian presents this is young females rate is the highest on record. They literally do believe that women's lives are worth more than men's. It's pure psychopathy. But of course most people won't read the link. The suicide statistics listed there are shocking for men at all ages. Overall figure for 2018 deaths per 100,000 was males 17.2, females 5.4. Imagine the headlines in The Guardian if the figures were the other way round.
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Anyone who knows the Guardian will not be surprised. Decency and honesty are now the things most out of place over there.
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