Girls' early puberty linked to unstable environment via insecure attachment in infancy

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 - 05:16 in Psychology & Sociology

Girls are hitting puberty earlier and earlier. One recent study found that more than 10 percent of American girls have some breast development by age 7. This news has upset many people, but it may make evolutionary sense in some cases for girls to develop faster, according to the authors of a new paper published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science...

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