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She Decided Not To Live

“And yet, her death had so many more actual causes. Bullying. The neglect of a school district to handle the problem. Parents of the bullies who declined to take their kids’ behavior seriously. And chief among them all, the fact that multiple eleven and twelve-year-old children were in the possession of smartphones and social media accounts.” https://foreverymom.com/family-parenting/bullied-social-media-mallory-grossman/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Susannah&utm_campaign=mallory Y’all. I don’t know when we’ll see it. I mean- actually see it. This epidemic that is sweeping through our country and has been for years.  Suicide is the second leading cause of death for youth between the ages of 10 and 24. SECOND. Between TEN YEARS OLD and twenty four.  There were 1748 deaths by suicide in 2013 among teens aged 15 to 19 years old, and this number might actually be higher, as “some of these deaths may have been recorded as accidental.” “In fact, reports show that 43% o...