A NUMBER of students have committed suicide while some younger children have become victims of accidents in the home, owing to their parents' negligence or carelessness.

Those children who have taken their own lives, often did so because they felt they were under enormous pressure, facing problems in their personal life, at school and in the family, problems with which they could not cope.

The key to trying to prevent these suicides is ensuring better communication between parents and children, so that children can talk freely about their problems and they can be brought into the open and discussed.

REKHA MAHBUBANI Kowloon