{"id":537,"date":"2018-03-21T13:03:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T13:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=537"},"modified":"2019-10-28T14:43:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T14:43:46","slug":"youth-suicide-skyrockets-70-over-last-decade-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"YOUTH SUICIDE SKYROCKETS 70% OVER LAST DECADE. HERE\u2019S WHY."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Article Source:<\/strong>\u00a0The Daily Wire<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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According to the Centers for Disease Control, youth suicide is in the midst of a precipitous and frightening rise. Between 2006 and 2016, suicides by white children between ages 10 and 17 skyrocketed 70%; while black children are less likely than white children to kill themselves, their suicide rate also jumped 77%. And as The Blaze<\/a> points out, CNN reported last year that \u201cthe suicide rate among girls between the ages of 15 and 19 rose to a 40-year high in 2015.\u201d<\/p>

It\u2019s not just young people. According to Tom Simon, a CDC report author, \u201cWe know that overall in the US, we\u2019re seeing increases in suicide rates across all age groups.\u201d As of 2016, suicide levels were at 30-year highs.<\/p>

So, what in hell is going on?<\/p>

A few years back, the trendy explanation was economic volatility \u2014 the market crash of 2007-2008 had supposedly created a culture of despair, cured only by suicide. But the economy is booming, and has been growing steadily since 2009. There are those who blame the rise in drugs as well, particularly opioids \u2014 but according to a study from the National Institute of Drug Abuse, drinking, smoking and drug use may be at the lowest levels \u201cseen in decades,\u201d as the Los Angeles Times<\/a> reports.<\/p>

So, what in hell is going on?<\/p>

There seems to be a crisis of meaning taking place in America. And that crisis of meaning is heavily linked to a decline in religious observance. As The Atlantic<\/a> observed in 2014, citing a study in Psychological Science:<\/p>

The researchers found that this factor of religiosity mediated the relationship between a country\u2019s wealth and the perceived meaning in its citizen\u2019s lives, meaning that it was the presence of religion that largely accounted for the gap between money and meaning. They analyzed other factors\u2014education, fertility rates, individualism, and social support (having relatives and friends to count on in troubled times)\u2014to see if they could explain the findings, but in the end it came down to religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>

In other words, people need meaning and purpose in life. Our focus on materialism from both the political right and left \u2014 on income inequality and intersectional victimhood from the left, and on tribal affinity and economic deregulation from the right \u2014 ignores the key problem: Americans, particularly young Americans, increasingly don\u2019t feel that their lives have purpose. This isn\u2019t a problem that can be cured by redistributing Xboxes. This is a problem of the soul.<\/p>

So, what\u2019s to be done? First, we need to get off the weak sauce of \u201cspirituality without religion.\u201d Spirituality is an aimless search within for some sort of transcendental values that simply can\u2019t be found within. Religion is about practice \u2014 it is about acting in moral and ethical ways because your Creator demands it. This doesn\u2019t mean you have to join an organized religion. It does mean that human beings need individual meaning \u2014 a belief in their holiness and specialness as beings made in the image of God, rather than a cluster of meaningless cells wandering through a cold, empty universe. And it means that human beings need collective meaning as well: brotherhood in this journey. If we can\u2019t supply those things to our children, it\u2019s no wonder they\u2019re in increasing levels of despair, no matter how many tennis lessons we buy them.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the Centers for Disease Control, youth suicide is in the midst of a precipitous and frightening rise. Between 2006 and 2016, suicides by white children between ages 10 and 17 skyrocketed 70%; while black children are less likely than white children to kill themselves, their suicide rate also jumped 77%. And as The Blaze points out, CNN reported last year that \u201cthe suicide rate among girls between the ages of 15 and 19 rose to a 40-year high in 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spiritually-decaying-nation","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}