So, while my obsessions and hobbies were offbeat, my emotional responses to puberty were a lot like everybody else's. The puberty alarmists would have us believe that young girls are being deprived of an authentic childhood by the workings of their own bodies. But real childhood is a mixed bag of physical and emotional experience because puberty is always looming. Puberty isn't the end of childhood, it's part of it. No matter how much lupron we pump into the pubescent female population, we can't preserve a form of innocence that was fictional to start with.
New findings point to environmental estrogens.