
Originally Posted by
Bonaparte
Uhhh...you might want to rephrase that so we don't get the wrong idea.
But I think that kids maturing earlier is more of a cultural thing in the West. In most of the world, kids still look like kids.
It's mainly in the US that girls are starting to look 18 at 13 (although it seems more prevalent among poor minorities, which I'll get back to).
So part of it may be genetic selection (i.e. those girls are getting knocked up in high school and having a lot more kids than the less physically developed girls), and raising a bunch of other little whores who will repeat this pattern.
Part of it also may be the way that they dress (push up bras and thongs in middle school).
Also: poor people in the West tend to have unhealthy, fattening diets. Poor people in the rest of the world just eat less.
More fat= more estrogen and testosterone= early puberty.
So really I think this phenomenon has more to do with poverty, ignorance, poor taste, and genetic selection than anything else.