American veterans who commit suicide are 95% male, crisis often driven by family disputes, say experts
Fox News
This report makes the claim that 95% of suicides of US veterans are male. It goes on to make connections between these suicides and family problems particularly when a man’s children are taken away. It’s hard to imagine a worse situation than to return from a war to find that your wife, now ex, has accused you of this or that and you can’t see your kids.
I was wondering, since there are more males than females in the military, whether this was just the raw numbers and not the rates when I came across this: "America's female veterans face serious mental health struggles, too, and are even more likely as a percentage of the former service member population to attempt suicide, according to the Veterans Administration."
Fox News is often clickbait. I think this may be one of those times. I'm not even sure what they're claiming. As usual, in the legacy media, there are no citations to the data they're referring to.
This is probably a better source of data. I'm guessing you have much better math skills than I do, so I'll leave it to you to figure out if Fox was yanking our chains or not.
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2023-11-16/suicide-rate-women-veterans-increase-covid-12074884.html
I do detect some bias in that the article is about suicide in veterans yet they gave the percentage of women in the military, as opposed to veterans, as 17.4%. A quick search online revealed that the percentage of female *veterans* in 2022 was around 10%.
Also, although they focus on the higher *increase* in female suicide, they never do compare the *actual* rates in men vs women. Sound familiar?