Suicide Among Youth Within Residential Group Facilities and Single Family Foster Homes
others may last a long time and interfere with a person’s daily, normal activities. Once more, be aware that not everybody who kills himself is depressed, and that many teenagers who are depressed do not take their lives. In the next few pages, some of the deeper origins of psychological distress, and how these may be related to suicide, will be examined.
In contrast to previous studies, Browne (2002) states that children in single family foster homes are more apt to commit suicides because of emotional and financial reasons. Because emotional upsets like psychological distress often appear abruptly, and sometimes disappear just as quickly and because they frequently appear in several members of a family, most researchers today believe that intelligence is responsible, and that those imbalances are almost certainly inherited. Supporters of this view hold that if a person has such a chemical makeup, the ordinary hurtful life events that make many of us mildly depressed can perhaps touch off a major clinical psychological distress. “Severely depressed teenagers who attempted suicide while they investigate participants in one study of psychological distress excreted radically increased amounts of this hormone in their urine just before they tried to kill themselves” (Browne 2002, p. 22). Then, half of another group of depressed teens in the study — all with suicidal signs — researchers found to have high levels in the amounts of hormone found in their blood; more important, three patients who succeeded in killing themselves, and two who nearly did so, had high levels of the hormone prior to suicide or attempted suicide.
The same findings researchers made by Ponte and Gillan (2005) who stated that single family foster care environment is dangerous for young teenagers as they feel helpless and insecure in such families. The social issues discussed in this study are a collection of the life and relationships of human beings in a society. “Although legal recognition of households would certainly drive benefits protection forward, it is unlikely to occur in the current divisive political climate” (Ponte and Gillan 2005, p. 43). Most of the time, that grouping is a winning one that makes for fairly happy and comfortable individuals, teenagers who work and dream of the future. But sometimes the mixture goes bad and an individual comes under the sway of the bad influences of society, influences that make life empty for many teenagers. Selfishness is the habit of valuing only the issues that are of interest to oneself; at times, it can be called selfishness. The selfish person may be someone who has few ties, to all of the issues that give us support and a sense of belonging and distribution — family, a club, a local organization, a church. Because such teenagers avoid contact with peers, they begin to depend a lot on themselves for gratification and support, and as a result they often grow very lonely and prone to suicide. The selfish individual, , does not always intentionally seek isolation. Many teenagers have isolation thrust upon them, and they are forced to fend for themselves.
Sinclair et al (2005) describes the problems of residential group facilities and possible difficulties faced by guidance’s. The researchers state that suicide is higher among single teenagers than among the married; it is high, too, among the divorced, the persons, and the elderly who live alone; among those who live in the isolation of apartment buildings, locked behind a door that looks the same as all the others on a corridor, in a faceless building that is identical to all the others on the street. In all these buildings the occupants rarely ever have more than an associate with the neighbors. Another example of how a selfish environment can contribute to suicide is found among young blacks who are driven to search for death. For years it was assumed that” suicidal actions was not common among blacks, that self-destruction was primarily a white phenomenon, a white person’s way of dealing with “white only” difficulties” (Sinclair et al 2005, p. 77).
History quite teems with instances of suicide that arose either from a deep and genuine individual choice to place oneself second, or because the public might have had certain strict set of laws that demanded such selfless behavior. There have been people who volunteered for a dangerous task that meant certain death for them. They believed that their task might win a battle and save many other lives. There are some people who research for deaths by taking the place of others who had been condemned to die. “A similar position occurs in the classic lifeboat scenario of fiction and real life, in which one of those cast adrift in an overloaded boat offers to slip into the water to lighten the load and, presumably, help the others survive” (Barber and Delfabbro 2003, p. 73). Many other community