The suffering of others

What is happening if your three-year-old starts growing pubic hair, her hips start to curve and she could be having a menstrual cycle, complete with PMS?

She could be suffering from precocious puberty... And more details on the anomalous condition can be found in tomorrow’s edition of Pink magazine, where a mother talks about deciphering and dealing with her three-year-old daughter’s adult health issues, and about being suspected of abusing her, to add insult to injury.

The 70th issue of Pink, distributed with The Times tomorrow, is ideal for a day at the beach, packed as it is with stories that raise awareness of the suffering and other situations around us.

A woman who feels she was born to be a man chooses Pink to courageously come out with the complications of practically living between the sexes, explaining in depth what it means to be trapped in the wrong body and seeing no way out.

Over half of carers of dementia patients, usually relatives, report feeling depressed. In the run-up to World Alzheimer’s day on September 21, Pink offers practical tips on how to handle the condition, improving the lives of those they love... and their own.

Fashion dips its toes into the new season’s collections; beauty discovers the benefits of mineral make-up; and books tell the true but surreal story of a woman who was abused by her mother, her mother’s partner and both their families until she found it in her to fight them off, living to tell the tale.

Published by Allied Newspapers Ltd and printed by Progress Press, Pink’s executive editor is Fiona Galea Debono.

It is produced by Mediamaker and designed by Helen Cassar Torreggiani and Joseph Schembri.