Youngest birthers are African. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...rst-birth.html
Youngest birthers are African. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/...rst-birth.html
TheOneOnly2 (08-14-2020)
"Loss of innocence"
Sounds very scientific. How do you go about measuring that?
If females continue to "lose their innocence", does that mean they'll continue to menstruate earlier and earlier on average? A decade from now, will females be menstruating when they're aged five?
Are you aware that the trend towards earlier menstruation has recently stopped? Does that mean females are no longer losing their innocence?
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
OK - all I said was that I love children though. I wasnt going anywhere else with it. And I did work in childrens services for many years - I dont think that makes me a pedo. A guy that worked in childrens services could argue that age of consent laws need to be looked at without it meaning Im a pedo right? Im not suggesting that the age of consent laws be lowered under 14 and even with that Im just asking the question. You yourself told me that a person isnt a pedo unless they are attracted to young people under 13 right?
Why not?
But why did it stop? Have females suddenly stopped losing their innocence?And I guess it has to stop somewhere.
When did it stop exactly? Can you post a link?https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12319855/
...Over the past century the age at menarche has fallen in industrialized countries, but that trend has stopped and may even be reversing...
Power always thinks it has a great soul, and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak. And that it is doing God service when it is violating all His laws.
--John Adams
Why not? Because some people saying that chemicals in the environment "may" be a factor isnt science.
And your link seems to be to an old articele/studies. Anyway even if some research "suggests" that early menstruation has levelled off in recent decades thats hardly conclusive is it. And apparently a better marker of the onset of puberty is the development of breast tissue -
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...y-year-earlierWhile the age of first menstruation, or menarche, decreased in the early 20th century, some research has suggested onset has shifted little in recent decades.However, Busch and colleagues say looking at menarche as a marker of the onset of puberty is problematic, not least because it often relies on women recalling when their periods began, while menstruation begins later in puberty than other developments.
Instead the team focused on thelarche, with Busch noting the clinicians had seen a rise in the number of children under eight showing development of glandular breast tissue.
With there being a link between trauma and early menstruation though I think my theory is worth looking at. Trauma causes a loss of innocence - modern society causes a loss of innocence. I would bet on that before chemicals.
Family Matters
In 1991, developmental psychologist Jay Belsky stirred the world of child development by declaring that the timing of puberty could be affected by psychosocial stressors as well as by physical stressors such as starvation and disease. Now at the University of California, Davis, Belsky, after reviewing his own studies, and those of others, through an evolutionary lens, reported that adverse early life experiences and harsh parental environments can accelerate the life course by provoking early puberty.
“It’s an uncanny finding,” Belsky told The New York Times. “Who would have thought a 7-year-old going through the stress of parental fights and divorce would have earlier puberty as a result? We propose that the time of puberty is regulated and influenced to some extent by these earlier experiences, rather than being a fixed biological given.” It’s not a conscious strategy, Belsky pointed out. But a body that senses dangers ahead will rush the reproductive cycle.https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/a...y-earlier-everPuberty encompasses a paradox, Cornell’s Mendle explains. While it is universal, it is also individualized. “Earlier onset of puberty occurs disproportionately among adolescents whose environments are marked by such adversities as child maltreatment, poverty, unstable family structure, harsh or unsupportive parenting, and exposure to partner violence.” Further, she notes, everyone varies in the way they experience puberty—not to mention how they deal with the consequences.
Loss of innocence. It would not be difficult to argue that modern society causes a collective loss of innocence and this is a factor in relation to females going through puberty earlier. Maybe chemicals are a factor as well.
not shocked at all.
Calypso Jones (08-15-2020)