teenage daughter that attempted 3 times during her adolescence. She always had seemed very normal. Never had any similar instances with the other 6 children, so I'm not 100% certain why life's problems sit more on one child than the next. She was the oldest and there was 6 years between her and her next sibling so maybe it was she didn't have the support structure the others had in the family.

Her story was that we simply needed to get her to adulthood where she began to understand how things weren't so bad or something and has had a very, very successful life, now with children of her own.

I think the media has a piece of the increase. It's like school shootings. Until Columbine, we never had them to the scale we've had them subsequently.

There wasn't one kid in my school years in our small town of about 15-20k people who committed suicide, but subsequently, in the years of adulthood, we've had about 3 out of 365 that graduated take their lives.

It is very depressing to imagine children who are that depressed. I believe it had a lot to do with how different people are "wired" to handle life. You just wish you could have taken these children and let them know how much they are loved, even if they feel different about life things and orientations and stuff.