Kathy Barnette’s mother was pregnant at 11 from rape.
It’s possible.
I believe the reason young girls are starting their periods so much younger, some younger than 10, I’ve read as young as 8, is because of over sexualization from an immoral exhibitionist society. Many have surmised hormones in food. No. I don’t believe that’s why.
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.
My twins both started at 10. I don’t think it was overly sexualized because they were pretty sheltered at that age. I do think it’s something with the hormones in food.