back then was fairly acceptable up to a certain age. the older i got, the more unacceptable that behavior became. i know as i started to hit puberty, and i was pretty much appalled at hitting puberty as a female, my parents actually said at one time, you could have a sex change operation. but you would have to be put in a mental institution. so, i think at that point, i whatever feelings i had, that way were completely quashed. reporter: instead, in her late 20s, carol comes out as a lesbian, which her mother suspects. but does not accept. carol joins the army at 31. and is still on active duty seven years later, in 1986, when she meets a young mother named judy hoff. judy has a history of dalliances with women. her husband isn t threatened. my husband thought it was great. turned him on. but then i met this person.
than they used to be, exposed to sort of sexier images and maybe that has something to do with it. no one truly knows. what do doctors say about what you can do about this and why it s such a concern? right. let s start first with why it s such a concern. a couple reasons. one is emotional. you know it s one thing to handle the emotions of puberty when 12, another thing to handle them when you re 7. i mean those are two very different things. it can really send a kid into a tailspin. as far as physical problems, when a girl gets her period, she starts growing at a much slower rate and soon she ll stop growing altogether. you don t want a 7-year-old to be growing at a slow rate. that s when they ought to be having growth spurts. there s two reasons to be concerned. as far as what you can do, if a girl is really, really young, you can give some hormone treatments to slow the whole process down. you wouldn t want to do that necessarily for an 8 or 9-year-old but if a child is 7 and hi