Oct 23, 2023 05:14 PM
What a choice: have an early bundle of "healthy" kids growing up in the trailer park due to the financial struggles of young adulthood; or wait until you become affluent parents but with psychologically and physiologically damaged kids growing up to run the world.
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Perils of putting off fatherhood: why it poses risks to children’s physical & mental health
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023...tal-health
EXCERPTS: . . . we know that some time about the age of 40, men’s sperm start to get slower. Conception gets harder. And children born to older fathers face higher rates of conditions such as autism, schizophrenia and leukaemia.
In many countries, men are becoming fathers at older ages. In America, for example, in 1980 about 43 in 1,000 babies were born to men aged between 35-49; by 2015 this had jumped to about 69 in 1,000 babies.
Age affects the sperm itself. A large systematic review published in 2015, looking at 90 separate studies involving 93,839 subjects, found that a man’s age negatively affected measures of sperm quality – the way sperm looked, how well they moved, and how many were damaged.
The physical attributes of the sperm can be important when it comes to conceiving a child. Research suggests conception rates for older men are lower than for younger men. In a study of 2,112 UK couples, men over 45 were nearly five times more likely to take more than a year to conceive compared with men aged under 25, and this held true even when the female partner was young.
In vitro fertilisation (IVF) outcomes for older men also appear worse. [...] Conceptions from older men are also more likely to end in miscarriage or stillbirth... (MORE - missing details)
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Perils of putting off fatherhood: why it poses risks to children’s physical & mental health
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023...tal-health
EXCERPTS: . . . we know that some time about the age of 40, men’s sperm start to get slower. Conception gets harder. And children born to older fathers face higher rates of conditions such as autism, schizophrenia and leukaemia.
In many countries, men are becoming fathers at older ages. In America, for example, in 1980 about 43 in 1,000 babies were born to men aged between 35-49; by 2015 this had jumped to about 69 in 1,000 babies.
Age affects the sperm itself. A large systematic review published in 2015, looking at 90 separate studies involving 93,839 subjects, found that a man’s age negatively affected measures of sperm quality – the way sperm looked, how well they moved, and how many were damaged.
The physical attributes of the sperm can be important when it comes to conceiving a child. Research suggests conception rates for older men are lower than for younger men. In a study of 2,112 UK couples, men over 45 were nearly five times more likely to take more than a year to conceive compared with men aged under 25, and this held true even when the female partner was young.
In vitro fertilisation (IVF) outcomes for older men also appear worse. [...] Conceptions from older men are also more likely to end in miscarriage or stillbirth... (MORE - missing details)