Girls are growing with a rising number of external pressures, making their transition into teen and adulthood far more psychologically disturbing than it used to be.
My teenage years, like many of our teenage years, were raw ones. I felt vulnerable, destabilized and confused, and I chronicled every bit of it on the pages of highly guarded diaries. Looking back, I see there was a beauty to this rawness. All those strong feelings helped me figure out who I was and what kind of people I wanted around me.
All those parts of the brain that help discern what we should respond to and what we shouldn’t, and when we need help, haven’t fired up yet. Scientists are still trying to parse out why puberty is happening earlier, but we do know that it is happening. Back in 1800, girls got their periods around age 16; in the 1900s, it was around age 15; and in 2020, the average age was 11. It might be that development is sped up by stress or a shift in diet.
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