User:Hitsuji Kinno/Adoption and Suicide

Adoptees are said to commit suicide more than the average citizen. In addition international adoptees are said to commit suicide more than domestic adoptees. However as one study pointed out many of these studies are not throughly conducted, such as background of the child before adoption, genetic traits and factors, as well as looking a the culture of adoption itself.

In addition many of these studies blame the adoptee, birth parents, adoptive parents, or adoption ignoring the social issues and aspects often citing genetics as the leading factor to suicide.

These are not congruent to those reported by the suicidal teens themselves who often report identity issues  and this leads them to think of suicide. However, often when addressed the non-adoptee will talk about how fortunate the adoptee is, circumventing the identity issues and social pressures the adoptee talked about.