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Building Life: Preventing Teen Suicide
The Building Life column will appear weekly and will address a variety of topics on the challenges of parenting and raising well-adjusted children.
Building Life (www.buildinglife.net) is the primary task of a healthy community. It requires informed and cooperative leadership and participation. This weekly column seeks to facilitate dialogue as it addresses issues for teens and families in the Severna Park and Broadneck communities. Reader comments and suggestions will guide the selection of future topics and responses in this column. Building Life is a nonprofit organization that uses music and media to raise awareness and funding for areas throughout the United States that are in need of mental health, spiritual care outreach and community cooperation. The Building Life Project in Anne Arundel County offers events, service projects, web-based resources and educational …
Sarah Hope
10:08 pm on Tuesday, January 18, 2011
The technology aspect is what concerns me the most. The contagion effect of teen suicides is often linked with the idea that kids, teens, and young adults may witness the outpouring of love, affection, concern, empathy for the individual that took his/her own life. Being able to witness it in one more venue (e.g. facebook) where adults have less control to intervene is worrisome. I think our … more ›