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"At that age — between 15 and 24 — why should you be depending on yourself (for emotional and financial support)? It is a statement that parenting is under threat, that trust in adults is under threat. Basically, what we are talking about is premature 'adultification'... What the society is doing is pre-harvesting them (school-age youths). They are hitting the labour force and going on their own too early," he told the Sunday Observer.
"Ten per cent of youths being in a situation where they say they have no one to turn to is a bit too high, especially when we are talking about the age group 15 to 24, which is the most problematic period in a person's life — and they are mostly males," he added.
"Suicide is just one of the implications... Loneliness leads to anger and frustration. You can't be at that age and have nobody to turn to... If somebody lives in a society he feels has failed him, then it has tons of implications for violence, both against others and self (as well as) for the political apathy we have," the anthropologist of social violence said.
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