Why do girls mature faster

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Be available to your child to listen if they would like to express their worries or ask questions. Our team wants to help your family grow healthy and stay well. Your email address will not be published. Name required. Email required. Girls physically mature faster than boys on a physical level as well due to the quicker process of puberty.

Girls undergo puberty earlier than boys by about years, and generally finish the stages of puberty quicker than males due to their differences in biology. Although it is not exactly known why girls experience puberty earlier than boys, evolutionary perspective theorizes women develop faster so that they do not choose a male of their same age, who is less able to protect and provide for them and their potential child.

Considering the different responsibilities men and women have in the environment, it might make sense for a woman to physically mature quicker than a man, as her body needs to prepare itself to be ready to hold a child.

Due to this revolutionary technology, we now know that areas for emotional memory and communication are larger in the female brain, perhaps explaining why, on average, women remember fights that men insist never happened, and why women use 20, words a day, while men use only 7, At puberty, there is again an explosion of hormones, according to Brizedine.

As a female teen's brain emerges, hormones dramatically reorganize her brain circuitry, driving the way she thinks, feels, acts and even obsesses over her looks.

Studies show that these surges of estrogen can trigger teen girls' need to become sexually desirable to boys. The teenage male brain reorganizes too. Flooded with testosterone, many become absorbed in sexual fantasies and the need to masturbate. To further illustrate how a teen's changing brain chemistry often molds their behavior, Dr. Girls, she explained, mature faster than boys, and girls' brains are as much as two years ahead during puberty. In fact, neuro-imaging shows that, early on, the typical teen girl has a stronger connection between the areas of the brain that control impulse -- the amygdala -- and judgment -- the prefrontal cortex.

It may not be until late adolescence or their early 20s that boys' brains catch up to their girl peers. Brizendine's high school group. Brizendine explains that the male amygdala, which also controls sexual thought, is twice as large as that of females.

Fueled by testosterone, it triggers the typical teenage male brain to think about sex every 52 seconds, compared to a few times a day for teen girls. When it comes to emotions, Dr. Brizedine says girls have their own area that's twice as large as boys' -- the hippocampus, which is the seat of emotional memory. The female brain uses many centers in both hemispheres that activate in response to faces, voices and expressions. Men, however, use only one side of their brain.

Brizendine asked the teens to come up with questions they always wanted to ask the opposite sex. Teen girls, she explained, physically receive pleasure through the simple act of gossiping.

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