Breakdown of the family is not the only explanation. Family ties are very big and important in Japan and South Korea, yet they have some of the largest rates of suicide. I think a lot of it may do with how large populations are today, people just get lost. I'd like to look at statistics from rural areas to statistics in big cities.

literal people are scary, man, literal people scare me
out there trying to rid the world of its poetry while getting it wrong fundamentally down at the church of "look,it sez right here, see!" Ani Difranco