Word: antiche
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Actual suicides by children under 14 are still rare; fewer than 200 a year occur in the U.S. But investigators are finding that attempted suicides and deep depression are unexpectedly common among emotionally disturbed youngsters. Psychiatrist Joaquim Puig-Antich of Columbia University, who has conducted a pilot study in this little-explored area, estimates that perhaps one out of every 200 American prepubertal children is despondent enough to think of suicide. Of the 50 depressed children he has treated over the past three years, 70% had suicidal thoughts and about a third had tried to kill themselves...
...Puig-Antich has also been studying the families of suicidal children. He has found that half of all relatives, going back to grandparents, are either alcoholics or depressives. Such familial patterns have led some researchers to wonder whether there may be a genetic factor in the kind of depression that sometimes leads to suicide. "My hypothesis is that there is one," says Puig-Antich. Yet like other scientists, he concedes that the tendency of depression to run in families may only mean that distraught parents often pass on their troubles to their children. Whatever the cause of the suicidal drive...
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