If diet were the cause, it would explain why Americans have seen results in boys faster than we have here children there have a more calorific diet. One other theory, "for which there is no evidence at all," Dr Scott-Jupp notes cheerfully, "is that more people being exposed to light for more hours of the day, in the form of artificial light, has an effect on brain chemistry." It makes your brain think you've been alive longer, I suppose, and that it's time you got married. Early puberty is about great nutrition, in the classic sense of getting access to good protein, good vitamins and minerals." He underlines that earlier puberty is often accompanied by a commensurate growth in height – this is particularly evident among Japanese girls over the past half century. Phillip Hodson, fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, says: "The best way not to go into puberty is starvation. Diet is by far the most important factor – medics and psychotherapists both point to better nutrition being the definitive change in children over the past century. Pop psychology has posited the idea that girls' early menarche (first period) is associated with an absent or distant or in some way deficient father, but this seems to be a misreading of an aside in a study that found a link between obesity and early puberty. So what could be causing it? What challenges does it throw up? How would a mature society deal with a physiological trend like this (let's assume for the sake of argument that we live in one of those)? If it turned out in the long term that boys were also maturing faster, that would not come as a tremendous surprise. The racial element of the US study should also be viewed critically: Scott-Jupp continues: "Any study in the US that appears to identify differences between the races, the difference usually turns out to be that black families are poorer and more socially deprived."īut the fact remains that puberty is much easier to define in girls – it is the first period – and, possibly as a result of that, there have been many more studies, in which a much firmer conclusion has been reached.
Seven months is quite a long time when you're 12, I concede. In the 50s and 60s, the average age for first period was 13 and a half now it's 12 and 11 months. In girls, that range is eight to 14, and this has got earlier, although not by the margin you might imagine. In the UK, there is no consensus that puberty is occurring earlier in boys the range for the first signs is still taken as nine to 14. It may turn out to be very early puberty, but that's very rare and it could be another condition causing it." The child should definitely be seen by a paediatrician. "I would be slightly alarmed if somebody read about this, noted that boys are going through puberty at six, and then didn't take their child to the doctor if he showed signs of puberty at that age. This sounds pretty early, and the first thing Dr Robert Scott-Jupp, consultant paediatrician at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, warns us is: don't take the toplines of a US study as your family medical dictionary. Nearly one in 10 white boys and one in five black boys showed some signs of it at the age of six. There appears to be a racial factor, with Hispanic and white boys going through puberty at an average age of 10, and Afro-American boys showing signs at nine. _WidgetManager.A n American study of 4,000 children published this week has shown that what we've long been wringing our hands about with girls is also true of boys – children are entering puberty younger.
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