Recent studies suggest that young girls are entering puberty earlier than ever. Medical researches are divided about the causes and implications of this trend:
In August 2010, the conflict seemed to resolve. Well-respected researchers at three big institutions — Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Kaiser Permanente of Northern California and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York — published another study in Pediatrics, finding that by age 7, 10 percent of white girls, 23 percent of black girls, 15 percent of Hispanic girls and 2 percent of Asian girls had started developing breasts.
Read more in the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
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