[networked]

>Over concerned humans must cause at least some percentage of suicides. Someone needs to compile the stats and do a TED talk stat.

Now that's an interesting hypothesis. I have seen a study on how insufficient parental attention increases the risk of suicide in teenagers but not this.

Edit: searching for "overprotection and suicide" ("overprotection" is the best keyword I could come up with; I did the search without the quotes) yields little.

[DanBC]

England has some suicide and deliberate self harm research done by "University of Oxford". (Uh, that's not "Oxford University" or any of the colleges.) You could noodle through their website?

(http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk/csr/)

You might remember the reports a few years ago about cortisol levels in children at nurseries, compared to children at home? People said that cortisol was a stress hormone, and thus it's bad to be in the brains of children, and thus putting children in nursery is bad because it causes cortisol to be released. But other interpretations are that children need to learn to regulate their emotions, and that lack of cortisol means over-protection and lack of a chance to learn how to regulate emotion.

Sorry about the lousy links, it's the best I can do at the moment.

(http://www.parentingscience.com/daycare-centers.html)

(http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18633-mom-and-dad-stop...)

[taejo]

> "University of Oxford". (Uh, that's not "Oxford University" or any of the colleges.)

The University of Oxford is indeed the ancient and well-known university informally called Oxford University.