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Are girls starting puberty earlier?

Are girls starting puberty earlier?

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


Are girls starting puberty earlier?

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

ratings:
Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Jun 4, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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)
Released:
Jun 4, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4