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David C. Clark, PhD; Jan Fawcett, MD
Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke's Medical Center 1725 W Harrison St, Suite 955 Chicago, IL 60612

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1994;51(2):160.

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Høyer and Lund¹ reported finding only one study "focusing on the importance of parenthood related to suicide," proposing theirs as the "first prospective one [of a large size] focusing on the association between family size and suicide among women." In our review of risk factors for death by suicide,² we noted several investigators since Veevers³ have reported evidence suggesting that parental status is a better demographic marker for decreased suicide risk than marital status (ie, those with responsibility for young children are at lower risk)^4,5 or have offered the same hypothesis as an explanation for their findings.⁶

Nonetheless, the Høyer and Lund study constitutes a remarkable contribution to the epidemiology of suicide. By tracking an entire population of women (almost 1 million) of known marital, childbearing, and parental status for 15 years, they show that married women without children were more likely to die by . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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