text: "More boys kill themselves than girls, but the rate of suicide by girls is growing more quickly."  Until journalists can cite the male statistics without appending a statement that quickly redirects attention to females, the minimization of boys' issues will continue.  
  
  Boys' suicide rates run approximately 500-700% higher than the rate for girls.  When something is a 12% higher in one gender than another, we use words like "more".  But this ain't "more"; this is a whopping majority.  (Statistically, the lower variable can always "grow more quickly", but that doesn't change the fact it's overwhelming a male issue, not a female one).  
  
  It's time to call a spade a spade:  this is a mens/boys' epidemic.