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A widening “disconnect” with family members in the prosperous city state is to blame for Singapore’s youth suicide rate, which showed little sign of dropping in 2013. The number of people below the age of 30 who took their own lives held steady at 100, from 101 in 2012, the Samaritans of Singapore said in a statement – still nearly double the figure of 58 in 2011. People under 30 account for an average 20 percent of the total number of those who committed suicide in the past decade. Interactions with suicidal youth have shown “a general disconnect between them and their families,” the group added.
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