Periods start when people are exposed to sexual influence?
By that logic girls brought up in an all female Christian environment wouldn’t jit puberty till their late teens!
My wife’s in her mid forties, her periods starred at age 9.
Our kids went to a small village church school, only 80 kids in total over four year groups - 7 to 11), teachers were mostly women and that included the liaison with the diocese.
About 15 years ago the school governors approved a supply of sanity pads in the first aid room. They had to...
Because at least eight girls a year started their periods while at school. And probably half that number were completely unprepared - to be fair very few parents expect it.
Youngest that I know if was 7.
So if that’s reality in a charitable religious school in a rich, rural county in Britain, it’s probably a bigger issue in the larger inner city primary schools.
I’m a woman and I have a good understanding of how this works. I also started very young, at 11, and that was many decades ago.
Human biology happens. I know all about that.
I don’t like broad generalizations and I didn’t make one.
There are debatable issues here but I’m not going to take up that debate with you.