Parent 1: Ten years ago, children in communities like ours did not date until they were thirteen to fifteen years old  Now our nine to eleven year olds are dating  Obviously, children in communities like ours are becoming romantically interested in members of the opposite sex at an earlier age today than they did ten years ago  Parent 2: I disagree
Our nine to eleven year olds do not want to date, but they feel intense peer pressure to act grown up by dating
provides an alternative explanation for the changes in children's dating described by Parent 1