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This is really sad, but I do remember hearing figures like this about... gosh, I guess it was about 15 years ago or so. Some study they did I think in Chicago.
I also recall discussions about the growth hormones in milk and how it causes girls to mature at an earlier time. The age of a girl’s first cycle has dropped dramatically. It wouldn’t be too strange I don’t think to find a correlation between some of these things as well.
Other people mentioned no father figure in the home, and that is a HUGE factor — especially for girls.