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Are girls starting puberty earlier?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - June 04, 2022 05:00 - 8 minutes - 8.13 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In the 1980s, Dr Marcia Herman-Giddens was one of the first people to notice that girls were starting puberty earlier than expected. We talk to Dr Marcia Herman-Giddens and Dr Louise Greenspan about what we know now about whether the age of girls’ puberty is falling.
(Mother and daughter in the supermarket choosing sanitary items. Getty Images)