Michigan youth suicide rate doubles. What parents can do.
Michigan parents have good reason to be concerned. Bridge found:
In a five-year time period ending in 2009, about 10 Michigan girls aged 12 to 18 years old committed suicide each year, compared to about 17 a year over a five-year span ending in 2017.
About 37 boys of that same age committed suicide each year in the five-year time period ending in 2009. In the years leading to 2017, that had risen to nearly 57 boys a year.
