Word: teen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whew! Another worry laid to rest. Moonlighting's Bruce Willis can prevail on the big screen. The presence of this teen dream in Blind Date is undoubtedly why a mostly indifferent movie has zipped up the charts. As Walter Davis he offers a neat variant on his TV character, acting like a stooge but saving himself finally with hidden reserves of smarts. And he does it with style...
...seems to have become even more difficult and often fraught with real danger. Since 1950 the suicide rate has tripled among youths from 15 to 24, spurred by changing social mores, increased drug and alcohol use, and greater access to firearms, which are teenagers' favorite means of killing themselves. Teen suicide is not quite the epidemic it is sometimes portrayed to be: the rate of 12 per 100,000 for young people only recently caught up to that of the general population, and suicide is a far greater problem among the elderly. (In 1984 the suicide rate among people...
...cluster warning signals, like other indications of suicidal tendencies, can often be ignored by parents, peers and teachers. "Everybody is in such a rush that we don't take the time to listen to our youngsters," says Elaine Leader, co-founder of a teen crisis hotline at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. In cases of cluster suicides, notes Charlotte Ross, executive director of the Youth Suicide National Center, "people grossly underestimate the grief reaction" of adolescents to the deaths of their friends. Lisa Burress, for example, had dated Joe Major for six months before his death...
...teen cluster suicides have devastated communities across the country in recent years, school systems have set up counseling networks, including suicide-prevention training for teachers and students, suicide hotlines and community- and parent-awareness programs to help identify and deter potential victims. But problem kids often ignore offers of help. Although Bergenfield prides itself on the number of youth-support programs operating in the school district, many students did not seem to be aware of them...
dramatizes the problem of teen suicide...