Check that out. Letting people know they belong is good for those people. #SameSexMarriage #lgbq #suicide Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger It's really nice to be able to share good news for once. A new study in JAMA Pediatrics studied the effect of same-sex marriage laws on teen suicide rates. They looked at 32 different US states which changed their laws at different times, as a way of disentangling this effect from other effects. The net result? Legalizing same-sex marriage leads to a 7% overall drop in teen suicide attempts, and a 14% drop among LGBT teens. It turns out that being publicly told that you're an accepted member of society and not a pariah does make a difference in people's lives, especially teenagers. Who woulda thunk? But the upshot of this is: All of you who worked on this, in one way or another? You just saved some lives. Well done. The article itself is available online: http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2604258 (NB: For cl...
