90. How to Help Girls Navigate the Menarche Rite of Passage (Kim McCabe)

Kim McCabe, the founder of Rites for Girls says that without puberty rites of passage, young people self-initiate. The media tells them how they should be and our youngsters create their own ways of proving their adulthood through feats, dares, and adventures. They try to appear like adults in what they do and how they look: using clothes, make-up, drink, cigarettes, cars, and sex.According to Kim, we grown-ups can take back the role of initiating our children into adulthood, and “the childre...