A Pentagon report has found that 123 military spouses died from suicide in 2017.

The report, which comes as the military battles a rise in troop and veteran suicides, gives the first insights into military family suicide statistics based on the most current data. It also found 63 children of military members committed suicide in the same year. Seventeen of the spouses were service members themselves.

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