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Children of Teen Mothers Have Raised Suicide Risk

By John M Grohol PsyD
September 24, 2004

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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i was a little over 4 lbs at birth and have, I’ll admit, been suicidal in my life.

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