Children of Teen Mothers Have Raised Suicide Risk
Babies of teenage mothers and infants who have a low birth weight have a higher risk of committing suicide later in life than other children, Swedish scientists said Friday. In a study of more than 700,000 young adults, researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm found that infants born to young mothers or those who weighed 4.4 pounds at birth were twice as likely to try to kill themselves.
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“Children of Teen Mothers Have Raised Suicide Risk”
i was a little over 4 lbs at birth and have, I’ll admit, been suicidal in my life.
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