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Older dads and intellectual disability
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Children born to mothers who are older has long been linked to various health problems – and of course its not possible (or at least really difficult) for women to have kids when they are a lot older because of menopause. But for the most part age hasn’t seemed like much of a issue for older men who want to have kids.
New research published in the Journal of Medical Genetics shows that the older the father the greater the chance of children having chromosomal abnormalities caused from copy number variations.
And its not that I want to hear bad news for older men wanting to become fathers, but it does kind of help to even things out a bit. Maybe it will reduce the number of older men getting involved with much younger women – or maybe young women may think twice before becoming involved with much older men?
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One Response to 'Older dads and intellectual disability'
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Malcolm said,
This is probably not the type of response you were looking for but I am 58, married to a incredible 38 year old woman. Its not that I went looking for a younger woman, it was completely by accident that we both fell over heels in love with each other and are incredibly happy. In fact I wished that she had been at least 10 to 20 years older but that didn’t happen. The age gap was a problem at first for BOTH of us but we concluded that we are such a perfect fit, it should not interfere with our happiness.
We have since had 2 children, the oldest is 3.5 and the youngest is 18 months. Both have no health issues, are very happy kids and way above average in intelligence. I have 2 children in their 20′s from a previous marriage and after some initial fears about a 20 year age gap, everyone is now extremely happy with the family situation.
My conclusion, even when circumstances are not always ideal and considered normal, love happens in the most amazing way and love has a way of solving all issues.
on November 27th, 2011 at 9:14 pm
This is probably not the type of response you were looking for but I am 58, married to a incredible 38 year old woman. Its not that I went looking for a younger woman, it was completely by accident that we both fell over heels in love with each other and are incredibly happy. In fact I wished that she had been at least 10 to 20 years older but that didn’t happen. The age gap was a problem at first for BOTH of us but we concluded that we are such a perfect fit, it should not interfere with our happiness.
We have since had 2 children, the oldest is 3.5 and the youngest is 18 months. Both have no health issues, are very happy kids and way above average in intelligence. I have 2 children in their 20′s from a previous marriage and after some initial fears about a 20 year age gap, everyone is now extremely happy with the family situation.
My conclusion, even when circumstances are not always ideal and considered normal, love happens in the most amazing way and love has a way of solving all issues.