By Ellen Castro
My heart sank as I read the facing
crisis among Latina Adolescents with depression and suicide. It wasn’t a shock
considering other statistics including The Harvard School of Public Health stating
that in 2020, the leading cause of death and disability will be heart disease
and severe depression. In 1990, it was respiratory infections and diarrheal
disease. Another research states the present generation of children is more
troubled than the last generation of children. While Intelligence Quotient is
rising, the Emotional Quotient is declining and children are feeling more
lonely and depressed, more nervous and prone to worry. Dios mio.