Reply #184: And less than 200 years ago, the average age of menarche was 15 and a half. [View All]

[moriah]

Even now, that's the average age for menarche in women from Haiti -- for American girls, it's about 12 and a half now.

Also, how many women died during childbirth in your grandmother's time? How many babies didn't make it? The World Health Organization says that women ages 15-19 are twice as likely to die from childbirth than a woman in her 20s, and girls under 15 are five times as likely to die.

Aren't you glad we don't live in your grandmother's time anymore?