Low-income girls often feel unprepared for puberty
“Some of the studies that assessed girls’ level of understanding of menstruation found that they did not always understand what was happening with their bodies. Across many of the studies, girls reported feeling that they had not received enough information or support to cope with menstruation, or feeling like the information they did receive was too little and too late. For instance, one girl reported believing she might be raped and get pregnant after she was told by her mother that ‘now [having started menstruating] she could have babies.'”