Two Alarming Trends for Women in the US... and yet, somehow unsurprising...
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/cdc-sui...06161209990015
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/paren...dex/index.html
Frightening. Yet not surprising.
I hope the first (the suicide rate) is not a TREND that stays... I believe that the increased rate has a lot to do with mollyzmoon's thread (well, less with porn per se and more with Naomi Wolf's main arguments... her beauty myth arguments and writings on the double standard.)
The second article is less of a trend and more of a statistic... but still...
As to the reason that the US' newborn death rate is so high... we don't care about women and children enough to let childbirth be a natural process... (alexxahex you are my goddess!) so we readily cut to c-sections and put everyone at risk... not to mention the glaring obesity epidemic that increases risk as well. And what (in our healthcare system) is being done to address this??? oh, wait... nothing.
Women have made tremendous strides, of course, but I believe that the backlash is so much greater than we can even see....
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Yeah, unfornuately it's "sink or swim" but it's a lot worse in general in other countries. The whole insurance/healthcare situation really pisses me off, I could on for hours about that.
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Umm... it's really only worse for women in the developiNG world. That wasn't my point. With our technology, wealth, economy, position in global leadership, etc... we should be at the TOP. We are nowhere close. This wasn't a "relativity" question, nor a "count your blessings and be glad you don't live in Swaziland/Rwanda." We're at the bottom of the industrialized world in terms of how we care for our women.
And that's fucked up.
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Maybe there is a connection with both trends. We do eat garbage (literally in some cases) on a regular basis.
Our food supply is one of the worst in the developed world. It could very well be the poisons that we consume every day that is hurting us. Sure, a gallon of organic milk is $7-8, but the true cost of cheap milk could be death.
That is my very unscientific opinion.;)
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Keep in mind that the USA considers it a newborn death even if it was a super preemie. In other countries, they consider it a fetal death. In this countries, we try to pull babies through who aren't even halfway done. I'm not talking a couple months premature, I'm talking 21 weeks into development. Most countries let nature take its course. Oh, don't forget that the USA loves fertility treatments and the resulting fuctuplets who either 1) don't survive because some people think that it's murder to reduce (terminate some of the fetuses to ensure a better outcome of the others), yet think it's okay to let them be born at 21 weeks and have most of them suffocate because their little lungs don't even work or 2) live on with severe lifelong problems, which is still a "Miracle of God" even though it was science.
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Our food supply is one of the worst in the developed world.
Our food SuPpLy itself is pretty good... it's the lack of proper distribution along regional and socioeconomic lines (think lack of organic products and fresh produce in poor inner-city neighborhoods, etc.) that is the problem. That and an ancient Farm Bill that makes it economically wise for farmers to dump excess starchy shit on a market already bursting its waist-coat buttons.
We also lack proper education as to how to make proper nutritional choices, and school lunch programs teach kids to eat fast food.
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Hatshepsut
Keep in mind that the USA considers it a newborn death even if it was a super preemie....Oh, don't forget that the USA loves fertility treatments and the resulting fuctuplets who either 1) don't survive because some people think that it's murder to reduce (terminate some of the fetuses to ensure a better outcome of the others), yet think it's okay to let them be born at 21 weeks and have most of them suffocate because their little lungs don't even work or 2) live on with severe lifelong problems, which is still a "Miracle of God" even though it was science.
This was a WONDERful grey's anatomy episode (sorry to cheapen your post... don't mean to... )
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Really? Huh, I guess that it is better known than I thought. I don't watch Grey's Anatomy. It's good to know that TV outside of the Discovery Channel does contain useful info!
But seriously, the whole infant/fetal death does make a difference in statistics.
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Hatshepsut
Really? Huh, I guess that it is better known than I thought. I don't watch Grey's Anatomy. It's good to know that TV outside of the Discovery Channel does contain useful info!
But seriously, the whole infant/fetal death does make a difference in statistics.
^^ No, you do have a point- esp. when we are a country with (i'm sure) some of the hightest multiple births due to our use of fertility drugs.
(btw- abc.com has full episodes for free... :D i don't have a TV by choice, but i do like to watch that program online.)
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This will probably sound very rant-like, but at the moment I don't care...
The suicide rate in this country is high because it doesn't matter how bad somebody's depression is, if you don't have the means ($$) to get help, you are left out in the cold. I'm sicker than shit right now, to the point that it is actually dangerous for me to be by myself, but nobody will help me until I actually try to off myself. You can only attempt suicide to get the help you need so many times before you actually succeed in killing yourself.
*NOTE* I am not actually going to do anything to myself. I have a person with me 24/7 right now and I'm not working until somebody fixes my medical issues. I'm mad at the world at the moment, don't mind me.
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it is actually more instructive to compare healthcare by ethnicity in countries with socialised medicine. i never see ethnic breakdowns for any countries' health statistics EXCEPT america's, which is quite telling.
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Regarding suicide rates, I was curious what the suicide rates are like world-wide, and by gender and age. I really only found snippets, although this one article stood out as the kind of thing I was interested in:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/art...?artid=1489848
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Hatshepsut
Keep in mind that the USA considers it a newborn death even if it was a super preemie. In other countries, they consider it a fetal death. In this countries, we try to pull babies through who aren't even halfway done. I'm not talking a couple months premature, I'm talking 21 weeks into development. Most countries let nature take its course. Oh, don't forget that the USA loves fertility treatments and the resulting fuctuplets who either 1) don't survive because some people think that it's murder to reduce (terminate some of the fetuses to ensure a better outcome of the others), yet think it's okay to let them be born at 21 weeks and have most of them suffocate because their little lungs don't even work or 2) live on with severe lifelong problems, which is still a "Miracle of God" even though it was science.
What she says is true...statistics are an easy way to represent whatever political POV you might want to push. I'd be surprised if this stat held true using the US standard for "newborn deaths."