14% of Latina teens attempt suicide

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One out of every seven Latina teens, or 14 percent, attempts suicide according to a 2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey of high school students. And Latina high school students have higher attempted suicide rates than white non-Hispanic (7.7 percent) or black non-Hispanic (9.9 percent) girls their age, the CDC reports.

Zayas has spent the last 25 years trying to find out why. He says the typical Latina teen who attempts suicide is 14 or 15, the daughter of immigrant parents, lives in a low-income setting and is caught in an intense battle with her mother over Latino and American cultures.

Research conducted by Zayas has found the girls' parents hold strictly to traditional Latino values, while teens who grow up in America learn "very different models about what girls should do, can do and are permitted to do."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/10/20/lia.l...ides/index.html

[Nessa 23]

what if you're latina and white non-hispanic, where do you fall on the rates?

[Chica Yeyé 41]

what if you're latina and white non-hispanic, where do you fall on the rates?

what do you mean? you mean Native American Latinas?

Edited October 20, 2009 by *Len*

[Nessa 23]

it said the rate is 14% for latinas and 7.7% white non-hispanic. I am both latina and white non-hispanic, so what's my rate?

[Chica Yeyé 41]

it said the rate is 14% for latinas and 7.7% white non-hispanic. I am both latina and white non-hispanic, so what's my rate?

you should have died by now. for some unknown reason, you survived kthxbai

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

suicide fail?

[mawilson 2,133]

[Niels Bohr 72]

All Latinos are good for a booties, and music. Nothing more. I'm such a rascist.

[mawilson 2,133]

All Latinos are good for a booties, and music. Nothing more. I'm such a rascist.

What else do you need?

[HAL 9000 96]

All Latinos are good for a booties, and music. Nothing more. I'm such a rascist.

don't know about racist but certainly gay.

[Niels Bohr 72]

All Latinos are good for a booties, and music. Nothing more. I'm such a rascist.

don't know about racist but certainly gay.

[alienlovechild 75]

Research conducted by Zayas has found the girls' parents hold strictly to traditional Latino values, while teens who grow up in America learn "very different models about what girls should do, can do and are permitted to do."

Latino boys don't have this problem?

[panamania79 2]

All Latinos are good for a booties, and music. Nothing more. I'm such a rascist.

What's a booties ?

[Ban Hammer 13,345]

All Latinos are good for a booties, and music. Nothing more. I'm such a rascist.

What's a booties ?

i think it's footwear for babies.

[panamania79 2]

One out of every seven Latina teens, or 14 percent, attempts suicide according to a 2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey of high school students. And Latina high school students have higher attempted suicide rates than white non-Hispanic (7.7 percent) or black non-Hispanic (9.9 percent) girls their age, the CDC reports.

Zayas has spent the last 25 years trying to find out why. He says the typical Latina teen who attempts suicide is 14 or 15, the daughter of immigrant parents, lives in a low-income setting and is caught in an intense battle with her mother over Latino and American cultures.

Research conducted by Zayas has found the girls' parents hold strictly to traditional Latino values, while teens who grow up in America learn "very different models about what girls should do, can do and are permitted to do."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/10/20/lia.l...ides/index.html

I only believe what I see with my own two eyes.Most people I knew just ran away from home to live with their boyfriends,family members,or friends who would take them in.