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Children of Teen Mothers Have Raised Suicide Risk

By John M. Grohol, PsyD
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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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    Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 24 Sep 2004
    Published on PsychCentral.com. All rights reserved.

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Grohol, J. (2004). Children of Teen Mothers Have Raised Suicide Risk. Psych Central. Retrieved on February 14, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2004/09/24/children-of-teen-mothers-have-raised-suicide-risk/

 

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