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A new study says girls are hitting puberty at the age of nine – if so, it’s a worrying phenomenon

By Deborah Orr

Monday 14 June 2010 20.00 BST

At least they have company, I suppose. At our primary school, in the early 70s, from a year containing almost 90 10-year-olds, only one child was clearly undergoing puberty. It set her apart, not least because she embraced it so enthusiastically. What a to-do, when we all went to the baths for swimming lessons. Little boys in children’s trunks. Little girls in children’s swimsuits. Gillian in a purple halter-neck bikini, looking like something out of a Bond film…Continue reading