These are not child suicides. They are teen suicides.
Child suicides aren't applicable to those older than ten.
We can expect junior high suicides to exchange with the previous problem of junior high pregnancies.
It's not that society isn't warped and destructive. The suicides are undeniably tragic, and demand attention.
It's that journalism is willfully tone deaf and sensationalizes the reality of the problem, and dances around awkward truths with manipulated choices in wording. Such as interchanging "teen" with "child" whenever convenient, to maximize the perception of an agenda.
All of this is obviously true, when you consider the difference between an 8 year old's suicide, contrasted against a 12 year-old's suicide.
The headline maximizes clickbait with implied shock value, knowing how outlandish the perception of an 8 year-old's suicide might seem, and goading the reading to search for the cut-off age brackets.
A headline, vanity sized, for the reader that seeks larger factor of outrage.
Child suicides aren't applicable to those older than ten.
We can expect junior high suicides to exchange with the previous problem of junior high pregnancies.
It's not that society isn't warped and destructive. The suicides are undeniably tragic, and demand attention.
It's that journalism is willfully tone deaf and sensationalizes the reality of the problem, and dances around awkward truths with manipulated choices in wording. Such as interchanging "teen" with "child" whenever convenient, to maximize the perception of an agenda.
All of this is obviously true, when you consider the difference between an 8 year old's suicide, contrasted against a 12 year-old's suicide.
The headline maximizes clickbait with implied shock value, knowing how outlandish the perception of an 8 year-old's suicide might seem, and goading the reading to search for the cut-off age brackets.
A headline, vanity sized, for the reader that seeks larger factor of outrage.