U.S. Youth Suicide Rate Increased 56% in Decade, CDC Says
(Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2019; https://www.wsj.com/articles/youth-suicide-rate-rises-56-in-decade-cdc-says-11571284861)
Suicide Rates for Young Australians Highest in 10 Years
(https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-30/system-for-suicide-prevention-rates-highest-10-years/8076780)
Suicide Rate Rises Among Young People in England and Wales
(The Guardian, September 4, 2018; https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/sep/04/suicide-rate-rises-among-young-people-in-england-and-wales)
Headlines such as these have dominated the consciousness of these three high-income, Westernized nations in recent years and have plagued suicidologists with difficult-to-answer, if not as-yet-unanswerable, questions from the media and the general public, begging an understanding of these alarming increases in rates of death by suicide among the young.