{"id":1161714,"date":"2021-12-27T15:49:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T20:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1161714"},"modified":"2021-12-27T15:49:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T20:49:57","slug":"the-risk-of-suicide-cbs-journalist-rips-covid-policies-impact-on-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-risk-of-suicide-cbs-journalist-rips-covid-policies-impact-on-teens\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Risk Of Suicide\u2019: CBS Journalist Rips COVID Policies Impact On Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-risk-of-suicide-cbs-journalist-rips-covid-policies-impact-on-teens%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1161714&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>CBS News reporter Jan Crawford told the network that \u201cthe crushing impact\u201d of overly strict COVID-19 lockdowns on children, including a massively elevated \u201crisk of suicide\u201d among teenagers, is \u201cthe greatest underreported story of the past year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy kids hear me rant about this every day, so I might as well tell you guys: It\u2019s the crushing impact that our COVID policies have had on young kids and children [who are] by far the least serious risk for serious illness,\u201d said Crawford&nbsp;on Sunday\u2019s \u201cFace The Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, a healthy teenager has a one in a million chance of getting and dying from COVID, which is way lower than dying in a car wreck on a road trip, but they have suffered and sacrificed the most \u2014 &nbsp;especially kids in underrepresented at-risk communities. And now we have the Surgeon General saying there\u2019s a mental health crisis among our kids. The risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/as-many-schools-remain-closed-suicide-related-er-visits-rise-by-51-among-teenage-girls\">suicide attempts among girls now up 51% this year<\/a>, [and] black kids [are] nearly twice as likely as white kids to die by suicide,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Suicide rates among all young people aged 12-17 began to rise by May 2020, the third month of the nation\u2019s COVID-19 lockdowns, \u201cespecially girls,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7024e1.htm?s_cid=mm7024e1_w&amp;ACSTrackingID=DM59196&amp;ACSTrackingLabel=Suspected%20Suicide%20Attempts%20Increased%20for%20Adolescents%20and%20Young%20Adults%20During%20COVID-19_DM59196&amp;deliveryName=DM59196\">according<\/a> to the CDC. \u201cDuring February 21\u2013March 20, 2021, suspected suicide attempt ED visits were 50.6% higher among girls aged 12\u201317 years than during the same period in 2019.\u201d Suicides continued to rise, 39.1% higher in the early months of 2021 than in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford cited \u201cschool closures, lockdowns, [and] cancellation of sports\u201d as driving the mental health crisis among young people. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t even go on a playground in the D.C. area without cops \u2026 shooing the kids off \u2014 tremendous negative impact on kids, and it\u2019s been an afterthought. It\u2019s hurt their dreams, their future learning, loss, risk of abuse, their mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of those who died by suicide had been viewed as popular and well-adjusted. As The Daily Wire previously reported:<\/p>\n<p><em>Spencer Smith, a sophomore at Brunswick High School, felt increasingly isolated as a result of distance learning. He had dreams of playing lineman on the Brunswick High School football team, but those hopes were dashed when it was replaced by flag football.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just lost a son because he couldn\u2019t be with his friends,\u201d Spencer\u2019s mother, Angela, wrote on Facebook. \u201cHe was trapped in the house. He felt like he lost his friends and had a hard time with his school work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mental health issues have increased throughout society. The number of Americans reporting they suffered from symptoms of anxiety and depression <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-00175-z\">nearly quadrupled<\/a> during 2020, compared to the previous year (42% compared to 11%), according to the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford rightly cited rising rates of child abuse due to the pandemic, as well. Child abuse tripled in March-September 2020 compared to the previous year, according to a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/health-news\/articles\/2021-10-08\/study-confirms-rise-in-child-abuse-during-covid-pandemic\">released<\/a> this fall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf our policies don\u2019t reflect a more measured and reasonable approach for our children, they will be paying for our generation\u2019s decisions, the rest of their lives,\u201d said Crawford. \u201cAnd that, to me, is the greatest underreported story of the past year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell said and frightening,\u201d replied host Margaret Brennan.<\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s fellow panelists agreed. \u201cMine is going to seem awfully paltry compared to that,\u201d said David Martin. \u201cI have to agree with Jan,\u201d said Weijia Jiang. \u201cObviously, as parents we\u2019re always thinking about \u2026 the long-term impact on their development. I think is something that we just don\u2019t know yet, and perhaps that\u2019s one reason why it\u2019s not reported as much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But a few journalists demurred. Ed O\u2019Keefe said the greatest underreported story was the Biden administration\u2019s failure to extend any kind of amnesty for illegal immigrants living in the United States. As many as 22 million illegal immigrants currently reside in this country, <a href=\"https:\/\/insights.som.yale.edu\/insights\/yale-study-finds-twice-as-many-undocumented-immigrants-as-previous-estimates\">according<\/a> to a Yale study. Democrats tried to add amnesty for an estimated 6.5 million illegal immigrants in the president\u2019s signature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/whats-in-joe-bidens-build-back-better-act\">\u201cBuild Back Better\u201d plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nikole Killion said the greatest issue was flagging support for the Violence Against Women Act.<\/p>\n<p>Domestic violence rose by between 25% and 33% globally during the early part of the pandemic, according to a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajemjournal.com\/article\/S0735-6757(20)30307-7\/fulltext#relatedArticles\">published<\/a> in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaceTheNation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FaceTheNation<\/a> today, my pick for the biggest underreported story of 2021\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FHvRInIlr5\">https:\/\/t.co\/FHvRInIlr5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jan Crawford (@JanCBS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JanCBS\/status\/1475231236150996994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a free hotline for individuals in crisis or distress or for those looking to help someone else. It is available 24\/7 at 1-800-273-8255.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS News reporter Jan Crawford told the network that \u201cthe crushing impact\u201d of overly strict COVID-19 lockdowns on children, including a massively elevated \u201crisk of suicide\u201d among teenagers, is \u201cthe greatest underreported story of the past year.\u201d \u201cMy kids hear me rant about this every day, so I might as well tell you guys: It\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}