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Post by puddleduck on Jul 1, 2007 7:16:21 GMT -5
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Post by gemini on Jul 1, 2007 15:49:01 GMT -5
I've just read the article..quiet shocking actually !
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Post by denna on Jul 1, 2007 21:46:57 GMT -5
wow..is it? there are logic to that..
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Post by puddleduck on Jul 2, 2007 3:52:57 GMT -5
If what this study says is true and you have to start having regular intercourse within seven years of menarche, then I would have had to be in a stable relationship by 19. That's quite a thought! At that time I was still in full-time education doing a degree and living abroad, and I was also the carer of a friend who had serious mental health problems.
The way of the world now is that it can take so long to qualify and then become established in a job to enable us to an earn a living and make enough money to be able to afford to raise a child, that it takes until the mid or late twenties or even later to start thinking babies.
Perhaps the other issue with this is that we are beginning to menstruate much too early because of environmental factors. They say that the average age of menarche of women in the late 1800s was 16 or 17. Now it's 12. If it were still 16 or 17, and women began sexual relationships within 7 years, say, by age 23 or 24, that would be far more manageable because we'd have the time to sort out education and earn some money and get settled.
Maybe that's what nature intended...
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