Parenting a child with any health condition is no small task. While your first priority may be to support them, it's also important to know your needs throughout the process, from the moment you get ...

Central precocious puberty (CPP) is a condition that causes very early puberty in children. Puberty is the process during which children mature and develop into adults. Girls typically reach puberty ...

Acne, awkwardness, body odor—puberty can be a tough time. But things get even more complicated when puberty starts at an exceptionally young age, and today many girls are beginning the process younger ...

Puberty is a wonderful, fun, uncomplicated, & totally non-awkward time (said no one ever). Puberty is a wonderful, fun, uncomplicated, and totally non-awkward time for those going through it (said no ...

IN “Adolescent Sterility” Dr. Ashley-Montagu assembles an impressive body of facts which show that puberty in the female is not a sudden assumption of the capacity to reproduce, but a slow process of ...

Adolescence and puberty are not the same. Adolescence is that ten to twelve year period of social and psychological growth that transforms the dependent child (beginning in late elementary or early ...

“What happens when a girl has the brain of an 8-year old and the body of a 13-year old?” Louise Greenspan, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist at Kaiser Permanente, and Julianna Deardorff, PhD, an ...

Should a mother be alarmed if her daughter begins to sprout breast buds and pubic hair at 7 or 8? At the annual conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics this week in Orlando, Florida, ...

In females, germ cells are maintained in ovarian structures called primordial follicles. The number of primordial follicles in the ovarian reserve is a critical determinant of the length of the ...

Transgender youth have a much greater risk of suicide, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, if they have access to a puberty blocker, their chances of suicide and ...