'Suicide' girl's parents want new law
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The parents of a teenager who died after taking an overdose call for a law to make schools record bullying allegations.
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For years, medical experts and desperate parents with teens suffering from depression have argued over the risks of prescribing antidepressants to minors, 520,000 of whom attempt suicide each year.
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The U.S. Congress on Thursday easily  passed a bill to help prevent teen suicide, legislation named  for a senator's son who took his own life a year ago this week.
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A girl who filmed herself trying to kill her parents claims in court she heard voices telling her to "do it".
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A 7-year-old boy hanged himself at his home in southern New Jersey, a prosecutor said on Friday in the latest sign of an increase in suicides by young people and adolescents.
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THE parents of a desperately ill baby girl yesterday challenged at a High Court hearing the view by doctors caring for her that, should her condition worsen, she should be left to die.
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Madeleine McCann's parents say they hope she is with someone wanting their own daughter.
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The parents of a 4-year-old girl have been charged with poisoning their daughter by giving her overdoses of prescription drugs to sedate her.
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A teenager who apparently killed herself in a suicide pact was 'bullied extensively' at school, her family say.
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The government is to pass a new law allowing the relatives of nationals missing in the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster to have them legally declared dead after one year.
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Laws that would require parents to be notified when teens seek birth control would do little to curb underage sex and could cause a troubling number of girls to engage in unsafe intercourse, a survey of teens in 33 states suggests.
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A review of information on sex offenders will give parents more rights but stops short of a 'Sarah's Law'.
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Suspect tried to blackmail girl's parents, says paper, in what could be first big development in weeks.
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Suppose a person of reasonable mental competence decides, after carefully weighing the available options and consulting with those around him, that life is no longer worth living.  Should that person have the legal right to end their own life?  Suicide (and assisting suicide) is presently illegal in most western nations, a fact which only serves to make it slightly difficult for suicidal people to carry out their wish.  I propose a different approach - in fact, an opposite approach.  I propose that anyone who honestly wishes to terminate their own life should be provided with the means to do so humanely, reminiscent of (though perhaps more gentle than) the infamous suicide booths popularized by Futurama.
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Connecticut lawmakers are pushing a bill that would require age verification rules for social networking sites and would allow parents more control over their children's pages.
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Gabe: You might have seen this story on CNN about the teens that murdered a homeless guy and then equated it to the sort of thrill one might get from a violent video game. There will be plenty of articles focusing on these kids and their crime. I"d like to take a second and talk about the parents of these teenagers instead. It is the job of a parent to teach their children certain rules. Obviously the rules themselves and the emphasis each family places on them will vary, but there are certain universal constants that these parents obviously failed to pass on.
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A 13-year-old girl who died in an apparent suicide pact wrote a letter describing her despair and loneliness at being bullied.