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Low-income girls often feel unprepared for puberty

  • Written by Marni Sommer, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center
imageMany low-income girls in the U.S. don't feel prepared for puberty.Image of girls via www.shutterstock.com.

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