B.C.
I don't know. Some places are worse than others. One of my son's friends was dating in 5th grade. He's a nice boy. I asked him "Why?". He said he didn't know. Sometimes I think parents push it more than the kids do. They are in 6th grade now, and some are dating but most are not. My son is 12 and not interested at all. He could not possibly care less about school dances. I wasn't interested myself till I was in high school. I told him he's not dating one on one at least till he's 16, and groups of friends going to see a movie every so often are fine. He's still not interested. That's fine by me. He doesn't need distractions from his school work and keeping up his straight A's.