A first menstrual cycle usually occurs between the ages of 10 and 16 with the average age of a first period being 12.4 years old. That’s a pretty wide range, so how do you know when your kid needs ...

Shraddha Tiwari is like many other 16-year-olds in rural Uttar Pradesh -- studying in Class 12 at a government school, living with her parents and siblings in a small town, where her father is a ...

For many of us, our first lessons about periods were brief and practical, often limited to learning how to use pads or tampons. Alongside these traditional options, there's now a wider range of ...