Early Puberty Often More Hazardous

An anonymous reader writes "CNN is reporting that scientists are taking a look at the social ramifications of hitting puberty early. From the article: "'There is something unique about early maturity (relative to one's peers) that opens opportunities for victimization experiences,' the study's authors write. 'It's not puberty that is what ultimately causes kids to get victimized,' study co-author Dr. Alex Piquero, a criminologist at the University of Florida, told Reuters Health. 'Early puberty seems to open up a different set of doors and social experiences to kids,' he said, explaining that early maturing youngsters may start socializing with the opposite sex and with older, bigger, and stronger youth earlier than those who do not experience puberty early."

Comments

Re:My torpedos made me do it!

[kadathseeker]

I know, I am a girl, I went through it all.

Hahahaha yeah sure, whatever lets you justify wearing those tights and calling yourself FoxyLady523 while cybering on IRC early in the morning in your mom's basement. Yeah, a girl on /., real original, come on try a different joke, pretend to be Gates or someone more plausible. Look at me! I'm an NSA officer monitoring this site! Whoo!

I agree with the rest of your statement though.

P.S. Maybe if you said you were Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, covered in hots grits... we'd be too distracted by the idea to care about the plausibility. Just a thoug- ooh... grits... mmmm...

Underage laws

[SonicSpike]

I think underage laws are dumb.

After all, if it is old enough to bleed, it's old enough to breed. ;-)