Posted on 05/08/2008 5:25:23 AM PDT by mondoreb
I read somewhere that it’s due to the higher fat diet kids have these days.
Could also be this. A friend and I were at the beach last summer and were absolutely amazed at how large the breasts of 12/13 year old girls are. I know for a fact NO ONE my age back in the day had chests like that.
*Wei Chin, 37, a Chinese national living in Maryland, pleaded guilty in federal court to traveling to DC to have sex with a 14-year-old girl.
I read somewhere (uh oh, random speculation again) that there is a “magic number” for the onset of menstruation in terms of BMI and body fat percentage. So these days, girls are likely getting periods/starting puberty earlier because they have a higher % of body fat at a younger age.
“Oh, nevermind...the guy was a Mexican, not a Mormon - there won’t be child rapist apologists coming out of the woodwork”
Enough of the Mormon bashing! The rapist is a Mexican. That’s a fact. The Texas perverts were no more Mormon than you and I are.
Not really. For every girl that displays early puberty signs, there are many many more who are LATE maturing. We just notice the ones who mature early. It was the same when I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s. There were girls who were having sex out in the woods in 5th and 5th grade. And there were girls who were pregnant in 7th and 8th grade. Most of the girls who got married back then were already pregnant. I was lucky I was in the slow to mature group. No one was interested in me!
I think that’s a small part of it, but even my mom said she knew girls who had their period at 9 or 10 and this was in 1960.
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