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To: Les H who wrote (147716)	1/31/2002 11:14:01 PM
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Children orphaned after their parents have committed suicide have risen to record levels, a children's support society has found. A survey by the Tokyo-based Ashinaga Ikuei-kai, an organization whose goal is to support children whose parents have died or become incapable of working, showed that the number of high school students receiving the organization's scholarships after their fathers committed suicide was more than eight times higher than three years ago. The survey showed that 178 high school children receiving Ashinaga scholarships had lost their fathers to suicide. The figure was 8.5 times higher than that recorded in 1988. The percentage of children left behind after their parents killed themselves also rose, from 2.2 percent of those supported by the foundation in 1998 to 13.6 percent this year, the survey found. The top cause of suicide among the children's fathers was "job-related problems," including unemployment, accounting for 28.1 percent of all suicides. Following were "financial or daily living trouble," at 28.1 percent, and "health-related problems" at 14.6 percent. "If their jobs are restructured and they are burdened with a loan, the only way they can support their families is by dying," a 20-year-old university student who lost his father said of the survey. "I want the government to examine ways to form another path for them." (Mainichi Shimbun, Feb. 1, 2002)