Early Puberty
Posted on October 18th, 2006 by Tariq Nelson
Researchers are saying that children actually ARE growing up faster and are pinpointing some reasons:
Parents often think their children grow up too quickly, but few are prepared for the problem that Dr. Michael Dedekian and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School reported recently.
At the annual Pediatric Academic Society meeting in May in San Francisco, they presented a report that described how a preschool-age girl, and then her kindergarten-age brother, mysteriously began growing pubic hair. These cases were not isolated; in 2004, pediatric endocrinologists from San Diego reported a similar cluster of five children
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WHAT!!!
hmmm for some reason it cut off my comment.
I said:
First of all they are dressing these girls like women from the time they are like 6 or 7 and parents let their kids listen to whatever they want to on the radio and watch highly sexual videos. By the time these girls are 12, due to some of the scientific factors you mentioned, they are developed, and most are starting to experiment with sex around that age.
How does this effect us as Muslims? I seek refuge in Allah from this happening to my children. As Muslims it puts a whole new spin on things. We would have to seek special fatawa to see if our now ‘bulugh’ children, should he held to the same standards and expectations (salah, siyam, marriage, intermingling, etc) of people who reach puberty at ‘normal’ ages.
I use to live with a Yemeni woman, who was bulugh at 9. She was yateem, so her tribe married her off to the village druck. She had her first child by the time she was 10. When she arrived in the U.K at 14, pregnant with her 4th child, the doctor wanted to have her husband thrown in jail (don’t even ask how he got away with the statutory rape thing). If you talk to her she will tell you that she feels as if her childhood was stolen from her.
But, Umm Adam, if we make hijrah all of our problems will be solved, right? And of course we treat our little girls and Muslim sisters like queens.
I think its something that is not really suprising given that many products in daily life are very chemical based.
I’m not surprised about the skin contact having the masculinizing effects on the kids. A friend of mine had testicular cancer and so he was using topical testosterone for a while. The docs told him that he should wait at least an hour or so before touching his girlfriend with the parts of his body where he rubbed the cream. If he didn’t wait, she could potentially start showing secondary sex characteristics. Interesting eh?
I’m not sure how it is happening but I believe it may be true (early puberty) my five year old (very innocently) told me that when he sees kissing his “penis jumps”. He said he didn’t like that feeling and asked how he could make it stop… he’s five… I don’t remember having that problem at five!
wow thats really scary to know that children are starting puberty so early. It makes you wonder what they have been exposed to. Sadly many parents aren’t protecting their chldren like they should. I’m not saying hide them from everything but i do think you should use caution in what they are exposed to. At least this will somewhat keep them at bay. Parents need to teach their children modesty amongst other things too.
[...] I had an earlier post on this phenomenon here discussing some of the possible causes of this early puberty including the environment and more stress Nearly half of African-American girls start showing signs of puberty by 8 years old, and some American girls are developing as young as 5, even 4 years old, experts say. [...]
“Makes me wonder if things like this leads to homosexual and effeminate behavior in boys and aggressive and male-like behavior in girls.”
Your words echoed my own thoughts. Sexual orientation is a complex issue.
I have always felt that Muslims need to be more proactive in Environmental concerns. Use of plastics, pesticides and other chemicals not just physically pollute the world, which we should responsibily take care of, they also have spritual/religious implications.