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...than life to a lot of people - most of them men. In 1998, 24,538 men and boys comitted suicide - 80% of all suicides in the US. By comparison, 16,833 people were victims of homicide that year. Compared to men and women who were victims of homicide, half again as many men and boys killed themselves. And the numbers have been rising, steadily.
Derrick Miller's death gives us insight into one set of reasons for masculine self-murder. How many others simply fail to register on the social radar? And why?
I'm told sociologists use suicide rates to identify oppressed groups for organizations like the UN. The more suicides and the shorter the lifespan compared to the national standard, the greater the probability that the group being considered is oppressed in some fashion. By those standards, perhaps men in First World nations are an oppressed class. And more of us every year are dying to get out from under. Literally.
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Indeed. Death does look better to some. My next column for ifeminists.com will deal with this very subject from a media perspective. Look for it both here and on ifeminists.com on Tuesday.
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...than life to a lot of people - most of them men. In 1998, 24,538 men and boys comitted suicide - 80% of all suicides in the US. By comparison, 16,833 people were victims of homicide that year. Compared to men and women who were victims of homicide, half again as many men and boys killed themselves. And the numbers have been rising, steadily.
tparker, do you have a source for those stats? I'd love to quote them.
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look here:
http://members.w-link.net/~parkertr/RefDesk.htm
under the Violence topic, Suicide page. The numbers are summarized there for 1981 to 1998, and links to the original source material are provided. If you can use it, great - that's what it is there for.
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==Dan Curry==
What we really need is a database of offending judges and attorney's to publicly scorn these lowlife characters. But then again, I'm sure they would tie any such effort up in liable suits to stiffle any real justice.
==/Dan Curry==
have a look here -
http://www.fathers.bc.ca/dish/toc.htm
An attempt is being made to do this for Canada. Might work in US and elsewhere. Seems to me that a simple recital of facts won't set you up for civil suits. If you should name your page something like "Father UN-Friendly", you'd get your point across. Collect the stories and keep score against the names - be interesting to see what a year of that would produce. Similar to publishing the voting record of a legislator.
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Here is a site which breaks down suicide rates by sex and age and country. The USA falls in about the middle of the scale among wealthier "western" countries.
http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/death-su.html
Also, it might be useful to compare the suicide rate of those in bankrutpy or tax arrears court with those of people paying CS. But I wasn't able to find anything comparing these two.
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