Causes And Effects Of Suicide
Causes and Effects of Suicide
Suicide is an action whereby a person ends his or her own life. According to Conner (2009), the 11th main cause of death for all ages in the United States was suicide in 2005, which is the 3rd leading cause for people between 15 and 24 years old. This showed that children have a higher risk for committing suicide compared to most of the other age groups. High requirements from the parents to the children will lead to increase in rate of death.
Firstly, when the requirements from the parents are too high, this causes the children to feel stressful. As the parents want to improve the image of the family, they expect their children to do better than the others. Sometimes, as the requirements from the parents are too high, the children will feel stressful. Besides that, when the parents themselves are successful persons, they will expect that their children can be more successful than them. Most of the rich family would like to send their children to attain a four-year-college degree (Child Trends Databank, 2012). Therefore, children will have negative self-feeling because they feel like they cannot reach their parents’ target (Rader, 2012).
Then, because of stress, the children cannot fulfill the requirements and they feel depressed, and then end up will suicide. According to Newman (2013), if the parents’ requirements are too high, when children cannot fulfill the requirements, their self-confidence may be destroyed, and their desire to succeed may disappear. When they feel depressed, they cannot concentrate on doing anything and will give up on doing anything. According to Lickerman (2010), depression will cause a person to have thinking like they do not contribute anything to anyone in this world, and it makes no difference even if they do not exist in the world. Because of that, the person will start to think about suicide without letting anyone know about the plan, and finally committed suicide.
Next, after the children died, their
Suicide is an action whereby a person ends his or her own life. According to Conner (2009), the 11th main cause of death for all ages in the United States was suicide in 2005, which is the 3rd leading cause for people between 15 and 24 years old. This showed that children have a higher risk for committing suicide compared to most of the other age groups. High requirements from the parents to the children will lead to increase in rate of death.
Firstly, when the requirements from the parents are too high, this causes the children to feel stressful. As the parents want to improve the image of the family, they expect their children to do better than the others. Sometimes, as the requirements from the parents are too high, the children will feel stressful. Besides that, when the parents themselves are successful persons, they will expect that their children can be more successful than them. Most of the rich family would like to send their children to attain a four-year-college degree (Child Trends Databank, 2012). Therefore, children will have negative self-feeling because they feel like they cannot reach their parents’ target (Rader, 2012).
Then, because of stress, the children cannot fulfill the requirements and they feel depressed, and then end up will suicide. According to Newman (2013), if the parents’ requirements are too high, when children cannot fulfill the requirements, their self-confidence may be destroyed, and their desire to succeed may disappear. When they feel depressed, they cannot concentrate on doing anything and will give up on doing anything. According to Lickerman (2010), depression will cause a person to have thinking like they do not contribute anything to anyone in this world, and it makes no difference even if they do not exist in the world. Because of that, the person will start to think about suicide without letting anyone know about the plan, and finally committed suicide.
Next, after the children died, their