Fatherless Boys Three Times More Suicidal

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'Researchers from the University of Toronto studied 6,647 adults, including almost 700 who had been under the age of 18 when their parents divorced and found men from divorced families were three times more likely to have seriously considered suicide than adult males whose parents had not divorced.

The multiplier effect in boys whose parents had divorced is over 50% higher than in girls according to the research published in the journal Psychiatry Research.

The link between parental divorce and suicidal ideation is no longer significant among women who do not experience these childhood stressors. But even without these stressors, adult men who were children when their parents divorced still had a twofold increased risk of suicidal ideation compared to men from intact families.

The reason behind why men appear more distressed by their parents’ divorce than women was not determined from the study, but researchers suggested that male development is negatively affected by the loss of close contact with their father at a young age.
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The findings echo recent research by the Prince’s Trust showing that young men without a male role model are three times more likely to be depressed and demonstrate once again that Dads Make A Difference to boys’ mental health and wellbeing.'