A PhD candidate at New Zealand’s Canterbury University has found that girls whose fathers are absent tend to enter puberty earlier than their counterparts whose fathers are part of the family unit.
The study looked at pairs of sisters separated in age by at least two years, neither of whom had experienced their first period before [...]
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Eight-year old girls should still be playing with dolls and reading fairy tales – and not worrying about cup sizes and monthly periods. Unfortunately, it seems that more and more girls are entering puberty at an early age.
In 1997, a study on 17,000 girls in North Carolina showed that almost half of African Americans and [...]
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