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New curriculum standards expanding basic sex education for Texas students in the 2022-23 school year were passed in 2020. Here’s a brief look at what each grade learns.
Among researchers who study puberty, the Tanner scale is commonly considered the "gold standard" for assessing pubertal status when it is conducted by a trained medical examiner. [5] In HIV treatment, the Tanner scale is used to determine which regimen to follow for pediatric or adolescent patients on antiretroviral therapy (adult, adolescent ...
[9] [10] [11] Puberty that starts earlier than usual is known as precocious puberty, and puberty which starts later than usual is known as delayed puberty. Notable among the morphologic changes in size, shape, composition, and functioning of the pubertal body, is the development of secondary sex characteristics, the "filling in" of the child's ...
[18] While more girls are increasingly entering puberty at younger ages, new research indicates that some boys are actually starting later (delayed puberty). [ 21 ] [ 22 ] "Increasing rates of obese and overweight children in the United States may be contributing to a later onset of puberty in boys, say researchers at the University of Michigan ...
In girls, puberty and periods normally start between the ages of 10 to 15, but experts say this has been getting earlier in recent decades. In girls, puberty and periods normally start between the ...
In May, a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that 15.5% of girls experienced early periods — younger than age 11 — and that 1.4% started menstruating younger than ...
Girls have usually reached full physical development around ages 15–17, [3] [11] [34] while boys usually complete puberty around ages 16–17. [11] [34] [35] Any increase in height beyond the post-pubertal age is uncommon. Girls attain reproductive maturity about four years after the first physical changes of puberty appear. [3]
Girls are "at particular risk for experiencing negative social and emotional consequences of having any type of sex," including oral sex. [12] Girls are more than twice as likely as boys to say they felt bad about themselves and more than three times as likely to say they felt used as a result of engaging in sex [13] or hookups. [13] [67]