As I am starting to eliminate plastics that contain estrogen-mimicking compounds from my kitchen, I find myself contemplating something:
Will my daughters resent me if I succeed in preventing their early puberty?
I mean, I was the last girl to go through puberty in my class (and, somehow, all the other girls knew it – hurray for private school?). So the girls already have bad genes against them. I mean, socially bad. There’s no real advantage to going through puberty early from a biological standpoint, but the girl with the biggest boobs does tend to be the most popular…
In fact, when you consider how early girls are going through puberty, and how late they are expected to marry, no wonder we have so much promiscuity in the Western world!
But anyway, my point is, if all their peers are currently being exposed to all these hormone disruptors, and I succeed in limiting the girls’ exposure to them, how will they actually feel about this? I mean, I’m lowering their chances of breast cancer, but teenagers don’t generally care about stuff like that.
Not that I’m considering changing my mind about all this. I’m just sayin’. Cuz I can totally imagine an argument with one of my girls in which they express extreme displeasure over the fact that I did not bombard their body with toxic chemicals, when all the other moms were doing it.
Parents! They just don’t understand!
Filed under: Hormones and Hormone Disruptors
