女孩男孩过早的青春期发育,祸从何来?_BEC初级作文

女孩男孩过早的青春期发育,祸从何来?

In the late 1980s, when Marcia Herman-Giddens was working in a paediatric clinic at Duke University Medical Centre in North Carolina she noticed a puzzling phenomenon. More and more girls aged eight or nine who visited the clinic had started to sprout breasts. At the time, medical orthodoxy held that the average age of puberty for girls in the west was over 11. The numbers of under-10s that Herman-Giddens was seeing did not fit with this scenario. She began collecting data that eventually produced a study with the American Academy of Pediatrics that studied 17,000 girls and found that the average age of breast-budding among white girls was 9.9 years while for black girls it was 8.8.

20世纪80年代末，马西娅•赫尔曼-吉登斯在卡罗莱纳州北部的杜克大学医学中心的儿科诊所工作时，她发现了一个令人费解的现象。越来越多来诊所的八九岁女孩已开始出现乳房。当时，医学正统界认为西部女孩的青春期平均年龄在11岁以上。赫尔曼-吉登斯看到的众多十岁以下的女孩并不符合这种情况。她开始收集数据，在研究17000名女孩之后最终与美国儿科学会得出了结论，发现白人女孩胸部发育的平均年龄为9.9岁，而黑人女孩为8.8岁。

The discovery was hugely controversial. Many doctors refused to accept the fact that more and more girls had begun to mature sexually before they had reached the age of 10. "The Lolita syndrome [the prurient fascination with the sexuality of young girls] created a lot of emotional interest," recalls Herman-Giddens, now at the University of North Carolina. "As a feminist, I wish it didn't."