GIRLS who go through puberty before their 12th birthdays are more aggressive and more likely to steal, fight and take drugs than their later-blooming friends.
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What about environmental causes? What about the culture in which the girls are being raised?
What about the fact that girls are increasingly subjected to violent imagery?
I’ve commented on this previously, on ABC Unleashed.
January 12th, 2010
Now in its second printing!
January 12th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
This article was in the paper yesterday:
“Authorities say a 44 per cent jump in assaults is being driven by the growing popularity of “girl fight sites”.
Queensland police charged 441 girls aged 10 to 14 with assault last year – up from 307 the previous year.”
Read more:
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,26582012-3102,00.html