quote: quick at-a-glance break-down of the subject matter?
or is it to complex to post.
Let me know if you're not going to answer so I can stop checking.
wow, I just read that and it came off snide as hell, I did not mean it to be. I just keep tabs on a bunch of threads and it would help if I knew.
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quote: quick at-a-glance break-down of the subject matter?
well, overall puberty is a time of change...and increased conflict in the family...particularly in the mother daughter relationship. What I was examining was specifically the social competency within conflicts in girls and how it changes as they go through puberty.
In late childhood, even early maturers didn't really show differences in competency. However, in early adolescence girls tended to show lower levels of communication ability if they showed more pubertal development. In addition, mothers showed lower levels of warmth, and the overall 'relationship quality' was rated as being lower. Also, girls who are early maturers tended to show lower levels of communication and warmth as they get older, and their mothers show lower levels of warmth.
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Wow, that's really interesting. I was one of those people that matured at a young age, and I feel like I have trouble with communication. I've always been kind of shy, I hate talking on the phone, I'm really bad about keeping in touch, and sometimes I stammer or studder when I try to talk to people. Your theory is kinda creepy how accurate it is. I'd like to know more about your thesis (if it's not uber-long and full of proffessional lingo I wouldn't understand ).
Congrat's on passing! It's always a good feeling to accomplish something like that.
Do you see a companion phenomenon in boys? I think that "early puberty" was a problem for many of the young men who had it in my school. Sure, they had hair and deep voices, and bulked up over us scrawnier kids. But to a person they had kind of bizzare attitudes about sex (whatever that was), got into a lot more fights, and so on.
I suppose that's been studied ad nauseum, though.
I heard an interesting theory about how modern society has caused delays in puberty. People in less developed parts of the world, in past centuries everywhere, seemed to reach maturity earlier. And society encouraged or at least accommodated it.
Now, at least in "Western Cultures" kids are expected to stay kids a lot longer. The age of responsibility in society has become later and later.
Anyway, that's the theory. Not sure if the biology side of it holds up.
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Bob, girls ar hitting puberty at younger ages, I had heard. But you are right, they are not expected to be mature until much later.
Lupus, congratulations.
I lost my mother when I was a baby, but I still went through a time during adolescence when I rejected her. I wonder if there has ever been a study about that.
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Congratulations, Lupus! Do you plan to go for a PhD as well? Or what do you plan to do with your masters?
Very interesting thesis, it seems paradoxical how early maturers are hindered. Does "early maturers" refer just to physical signs of sexual maturity, or psychological maturity as well?
quote: Bob, girls ar hitting puberty at younger ages, I had heard. But you are right, they are not expected to be mature until much later.
I have heard this too, that the age of menarche of has dropped throughout the 20th century.
...And a casual google search confirms it. There's even a term for it, the secular trend, I didn't know that. http://www.mum.org/menarage.htm Funny how the age at which pregnancy is first possible went down while the age at which adults can support themselves and a family has gone steadily up. If this trend continues, we'll have to be educated till we're 40, have a kid, work for a few years till we're obsolete, then retire. Posts: 6316 | Registered: Jun 2003
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Some researchers have linked this to the amount of growth hormones in meat and dairy products. I am not what the final outcome was. They noticed a very young age of girls getting their periods in the urban Hispanic(specifially Puerto Rican, I think)population, because the diet has a lot of chicken in it.
My daughter's friend got her period last year, in fourth grade! She was just ten.
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