New data suggests teen girls in American are being swept up in a wave of sadness and trauma, reports STAT, citing CDC data. They are experiencing record levels of violence, sadness and thoughts of suicide, almost double the rate for teen boys.
Nearly 3 in 5 teen girls said they felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021, STAT reported — a 60% increase compared to a decade earlier. Nearly 1 in 5 female students reported experiencing sexual violence, up 20% since 2017. About 30% had seriously considered attempting suicide, up nearly 60% from 2011.
Nearly 70% of LGBTQ+ students reported feeling persistently sad or hopeless in the past year. More than 1 in 5 had attempted suicide in the past year.
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If you could remove all the space from the atoms that make up your body, you would be small enough to pass through the eye of a needle. (The human body is 99.99999999% empty space, though some quantum physicists would argue otherwise.)
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The number of deaths in the U.S. during or shortly after pregnancy rose from 2,019 in 2019 to 2,516 in 2020. Deaths from pregnancy complications rose, too. COVID-19 was cited as the cause of 23 of those deaths in 2020 and contributed to 171 of them.
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