Difficulty with numbers?

If, like me, you have difficulty with numbers in general, you might find the figures in this Guardian article as unnerving...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/mar/23/children-suicide-childline

What I found particularly shocking was the amount of young females who are phoning childline whilst contemplating notions of suicide. I had been led to believe that young males were a group particularly prone to suicidal tendencies, so to see so many girls experiencing such dilemma is distinctly depressing. It begs the question, that if previous study is true to form, many more young people and specifically males are going through such difficult issues alone?

Either way, the number of teenage people experiencing such difficulty makes really uneasy reading.

Stu