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25 - 65 year age groups, rather than in those over 65 years,
who tend to be the more lonely members of the community
and therefore are more likely to brood over their troubles.
A further factor is that the usual male/female ratio
for those who take their own lives has now been reversed
for the first time since 1952.
It must be remembered that there is a positive relationship
between suicide and the social conditions which disrupt
family life - divorce and illegitimacy, also between suicide
and loneliness, and movements of the population, that is,
immigration, which requires the individual to make a major
adjustment to a new way of life in unfamiliar surroundings.