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In my opinion, somewhat due to the breakdown of the nuclear family.

claudiawerner 7y ago
Is there anything to support such an opinion? From what I gather, Japan is a country with a strong "nuclear family" tradition, at least as compared to the West today - even then, the "nuclear family" is the ideal in the West still. There are two ways in which a family usually differs from a "nuclear family" - either single parenthood, or relatives being more in the picture, living with the child(ren). People still view single parenthood as a certified bad thing. Perhaps you could say that Japanese families are less nuclear because there are more relatives in the picture (I don't know if that's true) but unless that had an uptick at the same time as child suicides, there seems no basis for your suspicion, or even any reason - why would having more relatives in the picture increase suicide?
- todaysAI 7y ago
  This article says 1.5% of Japanese males are hermits [1] which shows the desolation that faces the Japanese young. This article [2] outlines the declining marriage rates. [1] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190129-the-plight-of-japans-modern-hermits?fbclid=IwAR02m-eJdEEZM5hqA0fkqj40KEzW_p5o6LYHTTpIrO9otkoXHf86TdrJXaM http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190129-the-plight-of-japan... [2] https://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/research/opinion/Akihiko_Kato.html https://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/research/opinion/Akihiko...
  - claudiawerner 7y ago
    That's not the decline of the nuclear family - it's the lack of a family at all, and it's hard to see that this would have effects on child suicide, when children aren't male hermits. It's not as if hermits become that way because women turn them down. The children haven't reached the age at which they'd worry about it being too late to have a family. Even then, 1.5% isn't a big enough number for people to worry that it's actually their fate. The rate of divorce is higher than 1.5%, as are a huge number of other risks. Becoming a hikkikomori isn't something I suspect most people, never mind children, are realistically worrying about. Even then, hikkis aren't suicidal, they find some contentment in being hermits.
  - franzmafka 7y ago
    These people aren't having children and therefore have nothing to do with child suicide?

Is there anything to support such an opinion? From what I gather, Japan is a country with a strong "nuclear family" tradition, at least as compared to the West today - even then, the "nuclear family" is the ideal in the West still. There are two ways in which a family usually differs from a "nuclear family" - either single parenthood, or relatives being more in the picture, living with the child(ren). People still view single parenthood as a certified bad thing. Perhaps you could say that Japanese families are less nuclear because there are more relatives in the picture (I don't know if that's true) but unless that had an uptick at the same time as child suicides, there seems no basis for your suspicion, or even any reason - why would having more relatives in the picture increase suicide?

todaysAI 7y ago
This article says 1.5% of Japanese males are hermits [1] which shows the desolation that faces the Japanese young. This article [2] outlines the declining marriage rates. [1] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190129-the-plight-of-japans-modern-hermits?fbclid=IwAR02m-eJdEEZM5hqA0fkqj40KEzW_p5o6LYHTTpIrO9otkoXHf86TdrJXaM http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190129-the-plight-of-japan... [2] https://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/research/opinion/Akihiko_Kato.html https://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/research/opinion/Akihiko...
- claudiawerner 7y ago
  That's not the decline of the nuclear family - it's the lack of a family at all, and it's hard to see that this would have effects on child suicide, when children aren't male hermits. It's not as if hermits become that way because women turn them down. The children haven't reached the age at which they'd worry about it being too late to have a family. Even then, 1.5% isn't a big enough number for people to worry that it's actually their fate. The rate of divorce is higher than 1.5%, as are a huge number of other risks. Becoming a hikkikomori isn't something I suspect most people, never mind children, are realistically worrying about. Even then, hikkis aren't suicidal, they find some contentment in being hermits.
- franzmafka 7y ago
  These people aren't having children and therefore have nothing to do with child suicide?