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 | USA Suicide Deaths 1979 to 1996
This web page is in memory of the victims of suicide. Introduction U.S. Surgeon General Concerned About U.S. Suicides Single Parent Homes and Suicide Graphs IntroductionIn the interval from 1979 to 1996 there were a total of 535,890 deaths in the U.S.A. that were diagnosed and reported to have been suicides.
Of these suicide victims, 421,991 were boys and men, and 113,899 were girls and women.
There was not one single age group in any year in which boys or men committing suicide did not exceed by far the numbers of girls or women who killed themselves.
The number of male suicide victims rose in virtually every year during the eighteen-year 1979 - 1996 interval, whereas the number of female victims of suicide was generally on the decline in virtually every year.
The number of female suicide victims was considerably lower in 1996 than it was in 1979, in spite of a sizeable increase in the American population during that period. It declined from 6,950 to 5,905 annually. The number of the male suicide victims rose during the same period from 20,256 to 24,998 annually.
Extrapolating from those statistics to the early 1960s, when the impact of the new realities of no-fault divorce and the feminization of America became fully reflected in the escalating male suicide rates, and extrapolating to the year 2000, when its impact was still being felt to its full deadly extent, it can be estimated that a total of 800,000 American boys and men committed suicide in the 1962-2000 interval.
In other words, more American boys and men died during and on account of the War of the Sexes than died in all military conflicts in which the USA were involved during the 20th century. The number of American boys and men killed in military actions during the 20th century is 661,946 (excluding the 4,273 boys and men killed in military actions during the 1899-1902 Philippines War).
If we were to assume that a number of 6,000 male suicides are to be subtracted from the annual male suicide casualties - the equivalent of female suicides - to allow that only the remainder of the male suicides are attributable to the War of the Sexes, the male casualties in the war of the sexes during the 1962-2000 interval still amount to 565,047 war dead, almost as many as the 595,242 American military casualties that died in all of the 20th century wars up to and including the Korean War.
Where are the memorials for the war-dead of the War of the Sexes, the Rout of the American Males? A total of 800,000 boys and men gave their lives not in the service of their country but to cater to equal rights for women, and there's not a single memorial or cenotaph to mourn their passing.
However, the eight American women that were members of the American Armed Forces during the Vietnam War and died during their terms of service were given a memorial all of their own. See also Glenn Sack's commentary: Distraught Father's Courthouse Suicide Highlights America's Male Suicide Epidemic (San Diego Union-Tribune, 2002 01 11)
There is something disagreeable about suicide. Of course, of the higher vertebrates, it is only humans who regularly, steadily and in considerable numbers deliberately kill themselves, not only each other but themselves by their own hands.
It is a terrible tragedy that with the age of enlightenment that ostensibly came about as a result of the new insights that growing liberalism bestowed upon us, suicides, which were a part of human life throughout history, have now grown to epidemic proportions, to the extent that in the USA and in other nations the number of suicide victims now annually exceeds the total of victims of violent deaths through murder.
Governments all over the world appear to be very reluctant to devote much effort to investigating the causes of suicide. Perhaps that is because it seems that one way to largely prevent suicides would be to have strong families that would provide strong support networks of relatives. That would be contrary to the governments' policies of pushing an agenda of negative population growth, and, to further that, the required destruction of our families.
To governments who actively pursue that agenda, rising suicide rates must seem like a blessing. How else can it be explained that not only do the causes of the suicide epidemic go uninvestigated, but that not even any efforts are made to determine why one sex is so much more prone than the other to commit suicide. Today, depending on age, men are on average up to more than eleven times as likely to commit suicide than women are. For almost one in every hundred men of age 85 or over, suicide seems to be the only avenue of escape from a life that seems no longer bearable. However that greatest tragic aspect of the high suicide rates is that the largest group of victims, by far, is comprised of teenaged boys and of young men. An enormous number of potentially creative and productive life-years are thus lost to society, far more than on account of most other causes of death.
The controlling factor in that is not biological but, rather, sociological. As the Canadian suicide rates for the depression show, men in just one small age group (60 and over) were the ones who caused the Canadian suicide rate to rise in 1930 to a never-before-seen high. Unfortunately, as of now it isn't possible to make a comparison to American suicide rates during the Great Depression, because comparable data for the USA appears to be impossible to find. However, there is a wealth of information relating to suicide rates during the seventies in many developed countries. All of them show that the beginning of the rapid increases in suicide rates coincided with the liberalization of divorce laws and, in general, with the rapid implementation of liberal policies.
These circumstances of male suicides should provide a strong incentive to any government to track not just the means by which suicides are committed but, rather, to determine the motivation for suicides. Without knowing the latter, it is not in the least likely that any solutions to the problem will be found. It seems that the inroads made by man-hating feminists in all walks of governments and the bureaucracy is the driving force behind deliberate censorship and obfuscation of the facts.
It appears to be highly unlikely that there could be any other reason why women's suicides, about 20% of the overall total of suicide victims anywhere, receive an inordinate amount of attention that is applied to the creation of generous funding for women's issues. On the other hand, men's suicides, so far larger in number, appear to be totally insufficient in creating any concern at all. Certainly, there is not enough concern to devote any funding to support the study of men's issues. (See poster "Save the Males")
However, what is most offensive is that there is not only a lack of motivation in government offices to collect statistics pertaining to the causes of men's suicides, but that there is also evidence that sex-specific suicide data is deliberately obfuscated in ways that play down the gravity of a situation involving a pandemic of male suicides that since the early seventies exceeded the prior crisis situation reached in just one or two years of the Great Depression. Youth Suicide and Divorce — Single Parent Homes:"In a study of 146 adolescent friends of 26 adolescent suicide victims, teens living in single-parent families are not only more likely to commit suicide but also more likely to suffer from psychological disorders, when compared to teens living in intact families." Source: David A. Brent, (et. al.) "Post-traumatic Stress Disorders in Peers of Adolescent Suicide Victims: Predisposing Factors and Phenomenology." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 34 (1995): 209-215.
"Fatherless children are at dramatically greater risk of suicide." Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, Survey on Child Health, Washington, D.C., 1993.
"Three out of four teenage suicides occur in households where a parent has been absent." Source: Jean Beth Eshtain, "Family Matters: The Plight of America's Children." The Christian Century (July 1993): 14-21.
"A family structure index - a composite index based on the annual rate of children involved in divorce and the percentage of families with children present that are female-headed - is a strong predictor of suicide among young adult and adolescent white males." Source: Patricia L. McCall and Kenneth C. Land, "Trends in White Male Adolescent, Young-Adult, and Elderly Suicide: Are There Common Underlying Structural Factors?" Social Science Research 23 (1994): 57-81
I hope you will find this information useful. Gerald L. Rowles, Ph.D. [Note: You may also want to look up Elderly Abuse — Prisoners in Their Own Homes: Male Victims of Elder Abuse, by Glenn Sacks, Santa Clarita Signal (10/29/01.
See also the coverage of that by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, who produced an excellent series of articles on the topic of fatal elder abuse and neglect in US nursing homes (it is estimated that tens of tousands of cases happen each year), Neglected to Death (Oct. 12 - 19, 2002). See abstract and commentary relating to the articles and to the problem of elder abuse and neglect in nursing home and hospitals.) —WHS] Update 2004 06 24:
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