Puberty hits early

According to "Web Md" (2005-2013), "Boys are entering puberty at an average age of 10 among whites and Hispanics, and at an average age of 9 among African-Americans. About a third of boys start to mature sexually up to two years earlier than average." In addition the site explains that girls are starting puberty an average of a year early. Well this is just a mess! Boys are at an advantage in that they grow taller with muscle definition sooner making them more physically capable of keeping themselves physically safe. However, psychologically both boys and girls are not ready for this physical/sexual change that is going on with them. The sooner they start developing within puberty the harder it is for them to understand the physical and hormonal changes that happening. What’s worse? Let’s think about something parents do not want to think about… hebephiles (pedophiles whom are interested in adolescent children rather than prepubescent children.) For people whom have a paraphilia for people under the age of 18 (the American indication of adulthood), this makes a mess for parents. This brings about the risk of more hebephiles to direct their desires toward their children, because they have reached the pubescent change at a younger age. Now these poor children are at risk for being sexually targeted because of their body figure, but psychologically these children are still much too young to be sexually active. Yes parents still have to worry about the pedophiles not just hebephiles, but the reason hebephiles are a mess of a problem is because it is easier for these people to state that they are unaware that these children are not over the age of 18 because physically their bodies have changed sooner than they did a decade ago. To prove without a shadow of a doubt that these people do not actually know the children’s age is much harder to do in court. Do not let these young children’s body changes fool you, they are psychologically still very much young children. Web MD. (2005-2013). Retrieved from http://children.webmd.com/news/20121020/earlier-puberty-age-9-10-average-us-boy