"7-year-old Girls with Breasts"

Elizabeth Braw, author of "7-year-old Girls with breast" explains that there has been an increase in early puberty causing children as old as 7 to have breast and mature testicles. From what I have seen hitting puberty at an early age can have some negative effects on children because it changes their attitude, leads to bullying and also children are not prepare to be sexually active.

Early puberty can cause a change in children's attitude and behavior. I saw on the show "Malcolm in the middle" one of Malcolm's friend Cynthia had develop big breast for her age over vacation. She was so embarrass by this situation that she started wearing large sweaters and hoodies to hide them and prevent any of her classmates form seeing them. Her horrible experience cause her to change her attitude and started being mean and rude to people. According to the article "people judge children by how old they look". In this case Cynthia change her whole demeanor to prevent people form judging her, since she looks different form the other girls in her class room. Due to early puberty people are going to be judgmental toward how you look and everything you do.

Reaching puberty early could also lead to bullying in school. When I was little I watched this episode of "Ned's declassified" where Jennifer one of the main character accidentally destroyed a girl's science project by stepping on it. The girl called Jennifer a tall freak because the girl was really short. The whole day Jennifer tried to make her self look shorter because she thought she was too tall. As the article says " Girls who mature earlier are more likely to abuse drugs, have low academic achievement and a higher rate of depression". Hearing those comments made by the girl cause Jennifer to feel insecure about her height which is something she should not be worrying about. Early puberty is going to add another problem of being a teenager.

Children that hit puberty early are not prepare to be sexually active. I have seen some commercial of the show " 16 and pregnant" it showcases the lives of teenage girls dealing with the hard work of being pregnant at such a young age. Many of the girls still go to school and now they are not only going to have to worry about school ,but also the responsibility to take care of a baby when they are still too young to be mothers. As the article states " boys and girls with adult organs don't reason like adults". Some of these girls do not have the knowledge on how to have safe sex and the consequences it could have, such as getting an STD or even getting pregnant. If children get puberty early they are not going to know what to do when they are sexually active and the consequences it could lead to.

Though early puberty might cause some problems in children's lives. I feel that everyone should be happy the way they are because everybody hits puberty at different ages and there is really nothing we could do because nobody know when it's going to arrive.