Pacific parents need encouragement to acknowledge and listen to teenagers by negotiating which traditions best support their wellbeing, says a Samoan sociologist. Fiva Faalau, who graduated with a PhD from Massey University’s Albany campus last week, says while her study of 45 Samoan teenagers revealed diverse family structures and parenting styles, some parents need to Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Suicide’
Protestants more suicidal than Catholics: Study
Thursday, March 15th, 2012Religion may play a role in determining whether someone will take their own life, suggests new research that shows suicide rates are higher in Protestant countries than in Catholic ones. Researchers from the University of Warwick in England analyzed data from Prussia in the 19th and 21st centuries, as well as modern data from the Read more
Legalised euthanasia could lower suicide rate!
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
The number of elderly New Zealanders killing themselves has surged 11% to a 10-year high, fuelled by mounting health and economic worries. The spate of deaths has pushed the country’s overall suicide numbers to 558, the highest since 1997. The issue has reopened the debate on euthanasia. A spokeswoman for the New Zealand Voluntary Euthanasia organisation Read more
Catholic stance on suicide has changed
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell’s comments by about the treatment of suicide victims, for which he has since apologised, have their roots in Christian tradition. However, those traditions have changed in the recent past and are not common in the 21st century. The parish priest of St Michael’s in Rotorua, Mark Field, said he could understand Read more
Overprescribing the Pill
Thursday, March 31st, 2011
When I was in college nearly 20 years ago, most of the young women I knew took birth control pills for medical reasons as instructed by their gynaecologists. Now that I am in my 30’s, I am encountering women who are only just discovering that they never really needed to be on the pill in Read more
1 Million Workers. 90 Million iPhones. 17 Suicides. Who’s to Blame?
Friday, March 25th, 2011
We all like our iPhone’s, Mac’s, iPads, our cameras, MP3 players but the factory we these wonderfully creative devices have been manufactured has been a place of suicide for 17 people. Suicide at Foxconn Shenzhen plant where Apple and many other companies have their manufacturing plants has thankfully seems to be a thing of the Read more