Of Men, Divorce, and Suicide

Intrigued by Wendy McElroy's column on male suicide a few weeks ago, the Toronoto Star decided to take its own look at the rate of male suicide and divorce in Canada. McElroy herself is quoted in the piece, and the men's movement is mentioned prominently. The author also interviewed men who have considered suicide in response to unfair child support payments. "There has been very little research to find out how alienated men feel after a complicated divorce and after losing custody in courts. But when you go through the research that's there, you come across story after story about men who wrote notes about their divorces or were clutching court orders while they committed suicide," says McElroy, whose anthology Liberty For Women: Freedom And Feminism For The 21st Century, will be published this year. We should extend both the Toronto Star and Wendy our thanks for continuing to shed light on this issue.

Source: Toronto Star [newspaper]

Title: Men, divorce and suicide

Author: San Grewal

Date: February 15, 2002

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