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While the article cant say why, many people may realize that when you get bad life advice, like the kind your family would not give you, but feminists are willing to, then your life may not turn out the way they dictate.

After all, all the assertions of feminism have been blind assertions looking for proof. Though as we move forward in biology, and other thigns, we are finding out that our parents and elders knew more intuitively about us than we know empirically in our daily lives.

That Prader Willi syndrome can be mitigated by father participation. That a female child living without her blood father has earlier onset of first menses (fathers let them live in a learning time longer). The list can be quite long, and will certainly explode as we find out more.

Well, just as men who are disenfranchised, tend to commit suicide because they are a net drain rather than a provider, why would it be so far from our ideas that women have similar mechanisms, though along her bailiwick, fertility.

Middle aged white women are the group that signed on the most to the feminist ideas of put off children (till infertility), put off marriage (till adaptability ossifies), claim abortion has no mental effect (except it does), and the list goes on.

Is it unreasonable to think that white middle aged women have reached the point of no return? That by kissing off good men, having fun without building a future till its too late, missing your biological clock, and finding out that the men aren’t interested any more (in contradiction to what all the magazines have been telling her), might be causing a problem that lack of religion, nihilism, hedonism, just doesn’t suffice to give meaning when your standing on the doc watching your “ships bearing your dreams, sail out of sight” to paraphrase Jackson brown.

The fact that new friends are made seldom, being warehoused in a clinic is a high thing for longer living women, no family to care, no family to call and keep in touch with, no companions…

Is it any wonder that this group might be dissatisfied with the new potential of their lives as it stares them in the face?

Where is the man to share my life? Where are the children, grandchildren, cousins and such to dote over? Where is the house and visitors to be with? The list can go on large given little inventiveness.

Pay close attention to the part in the press release that points out that “recent studies find that middle age is mostly a time of relative security and emotional wellbeing”. The reason is that they were interviewing those who came BEFORE the feminist advice to a utopian female life.  these women don’t have the things that this group has that gives them that.

Basically they are like men on their own after they get older. On their own, with no one, no family, and nothing left but dealing with it.

Personally, I don’t know the reason. However I do know that they will never figure out the reason, if the reason is in shibboleth land. Which means that as long as there is an ideological fence around answers, some answers will forever be out of reach, as will their solutions.

 

US suicide rate increasing:

Largest increase seen in middle-aged white women

The rate of suicide in the United States is increasing for the first time in a decade, according to a new report from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. The increase in the overall suicide rate between 1999 and 2005 was due primarily to an increase in suicides among whites aged 40-64, with white middle-aged women experiencing the largest annual increase. Whereas the overall suicide rate rose 0.7 percent during this time period, the rate among middle-aged white men rose 2.7 percent annually and 3.9 percent among middle-aged women. By contrast, suicide in blacks decreased significantly over the study’s time period, and remained stable among Asian and Native Americans. The results are published online at the website of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and will be published in the December print edition of the journal.

The researchers also conducted a detailed analysis of suicide methods across specific population groups. While firearms remain the predominant method, the rate of firearm suicides decreased during the study period. Suicide by hanging or suffocation increased markedly with a 6.3 percent annual increase among men, and a 2.3 percent annual increase among women. Hanging/suffocation accounted for 22 percent of all suicides by 2005, surpassing poisoning at 18 percent.

“The results underscore a change in the epidemiology of suicide, with middle-aged whites emerging as a new high-risk group,” said study co-author Susan P. Baker, MPH, a professor with the Bloomberg School’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. “Historically, suicide prevention programs have focused on groups considered to be at highest risk—teens and young adults of both genders as well as elderly white men. This research tells us we need to refocus our resources to develop prevention programs for men and women in their middle years.”

Baker along with colleagues Guoqing Hu, PhD, Holly Wilcox, PhD, Lawrence Wissow, MD, MPH, analyzed data from the Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) mortality reports, which provides data on deaths according to cause and intent of injury by age, race, gender and state. WISQARS mortality data are based on annual data files of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The reasons for the increase in the suicide rate are not fully understood. “While it would be straightforward to attribute the results to a rise in so-called mid-life crises, recent studies find that middle age is mostly a time of relative security and emotional wellbeing,” said Baker. “Further research is warranted to explore societal changes that may be disproportionably affecting the middle-aged in this country.”

Source: Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health