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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope this is not taken the wrong way, but does anyone know if black girls and brown girls (darker latin, indian, native american, etc.) get their periods sooner?  We are a south american family BTW, but caucasian/european descent from both sides.  My MIL and my mother are convinced that darker skinned girls get their period's sooner than caucasian girls.  I thought they were nuts, or grew up believing old wives tales.   But now my daughter is 13 and her and her two white american friends haven't had their period while the 4 other girls in their group (all darker skinned) have had their periods since they were 11, two of them since they were 10.  I wonder if there is statistical data about this.  And why would that be?  All 7 girls smart, well adjusted and are from supportive well off families.  They have been friends since early elementary school.[/quote]

African-American and Hispanic do start puberty earlier than European-descent white American girls:  https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/01/health/early-puberty-girls/index.html (and there's many scientific research studies on it).  However this is based on ethnicity, not skin tone.  I'm not aware of any research indicating a darker-skinned African American girl is more likely to start puberty earlier than a lighter-skinned AA girl.

I know anecdotes aren't evidence, but just a point of reference:  my very light-skinned red-headed freckled Irish mother started her period at 10.  Me, her more olive-skinned daughter (my father was Italian) started my period at 12.
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