The suicide rate among military veterans has been given significant attention in the last decade from the media and military officials. Through past reports, experts were able to determine that active service members are less likely to commit suicide. Only when they leave the military do suicide rates skyrocket. Though much research has been conducted on this issue, it has focused largely on male veterans until now.<\/p>\n
The Veteran Affairs<\/a> (VA) recently published a report that analyzed female veteran suicides over a span of 11 years. The results revealed that they commit suicide at nearly six times the rate of nonveterans.<\/p>\n When broken down by age group, female veterans aged 18 to 29 commit suicide at 12 times <\/em>the rate of nonveterans. This means that the younger female veterans are committing suicide at twice the rate of the overall female veteran population. \u00a0VA researchers could not offer a definitive cause of these troubling (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The suicide rate among military veterans has been given significant attention in the last decade from the media and military officials. Through past reports, experts were able to determine that active service members are less likely to commit suicide. Only…<\/span><\/p>\n