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Females reach puberty by the end of their third year.
Males reach puberty by the end of their fourth year.
There is a good reason why the growth spurts for girls and boys are different.
A females pelvic bones do not grow fully until they are around seventeen so they can not successfully carry a baby until then.
Boys become fertile before their growth spurt.
4 Questions
Why do humans have longer childhood then animals?
Why do teenagers feel the need to take dangerous risks?
What does it mean to be wrongly stigmatized?
Why is peuberty starting to happen sooner in this day and age?

3 Vocabulary Words
Prolonged-to make something go on longer
Menarche-the first time that a girl or young woman menstruates
Angst-in existentialist philosophy, a feeling of dread arising from an awareness of free choice