Among the most quietly devastating shifts in public health data is this: the historical pattern in which fewer girls than boys died by suicide is disappearing. Girls as young as ten are dying at sharply rising rates, a trend that has emerged in near-perfect parallel with the saturation of social media into childhood. As September's National Suicide Prevention Month arrives, the numbers ask a question that policy, technology, and community have not yet answered — whether the systems built to protect children can move as fast as the forces now working against them.
Suicide rates among girls as young as 10 surge; experts point to social media
Rising suicide rates among girls as young as 10 represent significant loss of life in vulnerable youth populations.