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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP is so wrong.  Precocious puberty is defined as before 8 years old for girls and before 9 years old for boys.   Girls are affected more often than boys.

There are many medical reasons to slow down the growth until 11 or 12 years old.  Too early puberty can negatively affect social development.  It can also put a very young child at risk to be sexually abused.   When children look three or four years older than they are they can have inappropriate expectations put on them by teachers and others.

[b]Also puberty blockers will allow girls to reach their intended height.   It doesn’t make them taller than they would have been without the blockers.  [/b][/quote]
It absolutely does make them taller than they would be without the blockers because without the blockers they wouldn't reach their intended height (if such a thing even exists).[/quote]

Genetics verify that there is an intended height.   It can be stunted by disease or famine among other variables.

If you have a child who was in the 60%tile from birth to 8 years old and you start blockers the height remains in the 60th percentile, the child goes through puberty at 12 years old and remains on her original path of 60th percentile for adult height.

If a child has been consistently on the 60th percentile since birth and gets her period at age 7, her growth pattern is disrupted and she will not reach her intended height.

No reputable doctor will give an 11 year old puberty blockers so she can delay puberty until 14 yrs old.  [/quote]

There is no such thing as “intended height.” natural puberty has a broad range of ages and it is a recent trend to freak out about any sign of girls’ sexual maturation and medicalize it. There is scant evidence that this is necessary on any level (including the notion that early normal puberty has negative mental health impacts.) I started puberty in 3rd grade about a year sooner than my sister and am 2 inches shorter than her. I sure don’t think that my parents should have stopped my puberty. That’s insane.

My DS showed signs of puberty early (8) that the internet claims should be treated with blockers. But his pediatrician was unconcerned and so was I. The story is different in girls because people freak out about female sexuality in a way they do not about boys.

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