Girls and early Puberty?

Question

I've read quite a few postings on answers about young girls starting puberty and they seem to be getting younger and younger. Even 7! I have read somewhere that girls who don't have a strong male/father/grandfather figure in their lives tend to start developing earlier as something sets off a chemical in their brain to commence this. Has anybody heard the same or from experience if you are a single mother etc have your girls started puberty before their friends who may have both mum and dad present.

By the way I am a mum of two children not a "buddy" as referd to by the first answer I think you have misunderstood my question!

Only serious answers PLEASE

Answer 1

My neighbor in the last city I was in before I moved back home had a daughter who reached puberty at the age of 10. She started her period, but it was sad. This girl was a rebel and a pain in the @$$ to her mom. She went wild, she started having sexual relationships at that age, yes 10.... her mom cried so much and I would hear them screaming and fighting most of the time, that I had to move to another place.

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Answer 2

I'm 32. I started had my first period when I was 9. I started developing breasts while in the 2nd grade. They didn't actually really start showing until I was in the 4th grade but my mom took me to a doc when I was in the 2nd grade because I was complaining of chest pains. The doc said it was simply my boobs getting ready to form. Someone mentioned that overweight girls start puberty early. I was a tiny, skinny little thing.

Honestly, I think some girls just start early. I don't think it is the epidemic people seem to think it is. I think we just talk about these things more than we used to. So, you hear about it more. I'm also certain that it has nothing to do with whether or not one has a strong father figure. That makes no sense logically.

Answer 3

I have read that girls are developing earlier and earlier everywhere, but no one seems to have solid reasons why. Some people claim that it's toxic chemicals in the environment, whereas others claim that it's stress. Then again, some say it's just better nutrition meaning that the body is ready earlier. Or that it's always the overweight girls that go early. I don't think anyone has a definitive answer, but it does seem to be happening.

Answer 4

I don't think development has anything to do with not have a strong male role model in a girls life. I have 3 daughters 12,14 and 16. my 12 year old got her menses when she was 10 and she had plenty of positive role models in her life. Her father and I are happily married, 3 granddads, plenty of uncles, and older male cousins who are active in her life. I think development is based on the person's body. I have a friend who started her menses at age 8 but neither of her daughters started that early.

Answer 5

Hi ! MEM , well girls can n hav developed puberty at early age .
I know a girl of 7th standard n she has a mother only. She leavs her studies and roams with friends elder than her.These friends of her are very rowdy and mavali-type.She belongs from a nice family but due to this she has made a bad name for her in the society,think at this small age!.Her friends have so much dominated her that she things that her mother and others r not right when they tell her 2 avoid them.She has so much matured,but in a wrong.So ,ya puberty is developed at early age.

Answer 6

I have never heard that, and it is just a sign of the times. Young girls develope faster this past generation, for the same reason they are taller and people live longer. Its our enviroment and how we are adapting to it. As odd as it may sound studies show that processed food (fast food) and the chemicals found in diets can have an altering effect on nature. I would not be concerned.

Answer 7

I don't think it has anything to do with any father unless there are a high number of father-less homes with a lot of stress in them.

Cats who live out in the wild are said to mature faster. I am under the impression that the girl (or cat) who is under too much stress may have that set of "chemicals" that leads to early maturation. If you think about it, Nature may design creatures to go into a quicker maturation when that creature is under stress (for Nature's purposes, "threat") in order to be able to take care of itself. I suppose for "Nature's purposes" there's even the chance that having threat/stress launch a girl into early maturity could be in order for her to attract a mate and have offspring in order to assure the continuation of a "threatened" species.

I would think the concern could be that a girl could get to have the "body of a woman" while being under stress of some kind could actually slow down or otherwise negatively affect her emotional maturing process.

It makes sense, though, that under "threat" and "fight or flight" hormones that physical maturation could be the result, whether that be so a person can take care of herself or so she can produce offspring before something happens to her.

Answer 8

i think it's a load of b.s. i have had my dad around my whole life, and i STILL managed to start going through puberty at 9 years old.. my mother started at 9 as well... i dont know why some girls are experiencing early puberty. most of them do now days, but there are a few that dont. i remember my cousin got her firs period when she was 15... but then she didnt have it again til she was 18 or so... everyone's body is different... i dont think it has anything to do with having a father figure in your life

Answer 9

i don't know if puberty starts off earlier because there's no father figure but if you've ever seen "The Teen Species" it talks about how girls start puberty earlier because of all the food they eat. their bodies get all the calories and nutrients they need to nourish a child because that's what puberty prepares the body for.

Answer 10

I have read studies where it is stated that the commercialized milk is one possible cause for this due to the chemicals and growth hormones given to the cow to produce more milk.