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Originally posted by Joeaksa
You should go to South America and see what is happening. Girls as young as 9-10 having their periods and "filling out" so to speak.
Many are concerned that all the chemicals given to the beef and chicken are speeding things up in their system.
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That could be true, there have been studies of the effects of hormones given to chickens in creating homosexual men, but the ones I've seen were inconclusive in my opinion.
The other issue may be our abundance and high quality diet today. Girls are physically maturing earlier in the US, that is a higher percentage are entering puberty at 10-11 years.
Which is creating problems since in many states, laws against sexual relations under age 18 have been growing more rigid, and more severe. The arrest of a young man in Nebraska on statutory rape charges by the state Attorney General despite having been married in a neighboring state, with the written consent of both parents. The girl was 15 if I recall correctly, the boy 17. Here in South Carolina you could marry at age 14 without parental consent, at least the girl could be that age, all you had to have was your original birth certificate. While not too common, I knew of two instances of folks in North Carolina where I lived most of my early life, going to South Carolina to get married. In one instance, the parents found out the next day and took their 14 y.o. daughter to a lawyer who filed annulment papers on the basis of non-consummation. I think, maybe, someone fibbed on those official documents, but I was too young then to ask.
"She" was the older sister of a classmate of mine.