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Archive Home > 2012 > April > 08 > The incredible shrinking childhood

The incredible shrinking childhood

• Girls are experiencing puberty at a younger age, prompting some to think this is the ‘new normal’

By Elizabeth Weil • New York Times Magazine / The Bulletin
April 8, 2012

One day last year when her daughter Ainsley was 9, Tracee Sioux pulled her out of her elementary school in Fort Collins, Colo., and drove her an hour south, to Longmont, in hopes of finding a satisfying reason that Ainsley began growing pubic hair at age 6. Ainsley was the tallest child in her....

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