and yet you CLICKED ON IT! 
One of my classmates became a grandmother shortly after turning 28. She got pregnant in 7th grade, when we were 13, and had a daughter who in turn got pregnant at the same age.
I have a niece that is well-endowed at the age of 9. She has attracted the attention of the many fathers at the school she attends. I have to literally escort her into the building and to her classroom everyday because of these sick, oogling dickheads.
She’s not allowed to walk home from school because of a registered sex offender lives right on the route she would have to take if walking.
I am curious, what do you imagine they are thinking about when they look at her? A nine year old with large breasts is an oddity, not a sex object.
WHAT THE FUCK?! She’s nine! :eek: What kind of shithead ogles a nine year old? I don’t care if she has tits, Jesus. Edit: I hope it’s more like what Fear suggested above, and not that they are seriously leering at someone in the fourth grade.
I was so jealous when my maternal cousin got her period before I did, even though I am eight months older. It was, spend Christmas with the maternal family, drive home, call on the phone to say “we’ve arrived,” receive the news that “D is now a woman!” And what was I, confetti? I was older! What’s the point of being older if your little cousin gets to “be a woman” first, hm? :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
My own period started at 3am on the first day back to school, I had to get Mom out of bed to ask for a pad. yawn There’s got to be better times to be getting that particular talk… yawn some more
I’ve seen bits on the news about families where, as the 29-yo-just-grandmother put it, “the rest of the sisters in each generation wait until a more normal age - I think we keep doing the same thing with the first one, of hoping she’ll do better (not that I regret having had my own eldest) but not actually talking to her about it.”
Today’s news 11/2/10, 10 year old gives birth in Spain:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/02/world/main7014331.shtml
A nine year old who dresses to enhance her sexuality.
Seriously I think it’s disgusting any man would ogle a kid, but I see little five year old dressed up in hoochie momma outfits.
OK everyone can dress as they want, but then don’t be shocked when you get the reaction you asked for.
It’s like people with 50 tattoos on their face and then they get upset when you stare at them. The tattoo is obviously there to be looked at. So don’t get all upset when people look at you.
I really doubt a nine year old girl walks into the room and all the men start drooling and ogling her. Unless you live in the isolation wing of the state penitentary.
It’s more like the nine year old has breasts and is wearing clothes that enhance them and the men are shocked to see a girl so young, so developed.
Why do you know that
I’m not sure why she knows that, but I know when my grandmother got her period because when I was twelve or whenever and wondering when I was likely to get mine, I asked. That sort of thing has a hereditary component. And for the “Are You There God, Its Me, Margaret” generation - getting you period (and having to wait) was often a BIG DEAL.
Additional info from a
[quoted newspaper article]
(Una niña de apenas diez años da a luz un bebé de 2,9 kilos en el hospital) (in Spanish):
- The girl came from Romania pregnant,
- the doctors were surprised that the family was perfectly happy about it, when the usual reaction for teens having kids (and this kid isn’t even a teen) is more around the lines of “having to take the girl’s family into preventive custody to keep them from going after the father”, (the newspaper doesn’t describe it to this level of detail, I’m filling in)
- and even more when the grandmother of the newborn told them “oh, it’s fine, she lives with her boyfriend back home”
- after all, some girls can pass for a lot older than they are, but “this is one child who looks and behaves like a child”.
The age of consent in Spain is 13, partly to accomodate traditional Gitano customs, including the custom of “not doing the paperwork because that’s a ‘them’ thing” and the custom of getting married very young, but those customs are changing and the difference between 13 and 9 is huge.
Because we’ve talked in-depth about our periods and fertility, and pregnancy and birth in my family. I’m sure that’s a big part of the reason that there have been no unplanned pregnancies in the latest generation now that we’re all past puberty (last one wasn’t so lucky as they received no guidance from my grandmother).
I remember one of my nieces, now 20, telling me when she was 12 about a pregnant classmate. I was pretty shocked at the time. Now, sadly, it seems to be more common than I had previously thought.
I started my periods at age 11, and my sisters all started about age 12 or so. The women in my family tend to start early, I guess. My daughter will be 9 soon, and I can already see signs of her physically maturing. Maybe I’m just being paranoid, but she is a bit on the chubby side, not quite obese, and that might be part of it.
As for “celebrating” menarche, I think it varies between cultures and within families as well. I remember being embarrassed to tell my mom, and terrified that my dad would find out, I’m not sure why. Mom bought me some pads and gave me the standard speech about being careful around boys, without making a big deal of it. I will probably do the same with my daughter when the time comes.
Story in this morning’s paper about a ten-year-old girl in Spain having a baby. She and the baby are fine.
I believe it is possible for a girl to get pregnant before she has her first period (correct me if I’m wrong).
Yes, technically. Before the first period comes the first ovulation, usually.
Uh…at 9, wouldn’t she have been a rape victim?
How early can males start producing viable sperm?
Thanks for setting me straight: when adult men stare at a 9 year old with boobs, its because she’s a slut that’s asking for it. :rolleyes:
There is a 4th grader at one of the schools I teach at in Japan who is similar. She looks more like a woman than some of my 9th graders. It’s disturbing. I hope she can develop a thick skin…