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I don’t think you know what statistical outlier means. Yes, the risk goes up a bit with age, but healthy babies are by far the norm at any age in modern times in developed nations.
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You what DOES go up massively with age, though? The likelihood of being mature enough and financially well-off enough to raise children.
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The body is ready but the mind is not.
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Then the best situation is an older rich guy with a young wife.
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they don’t tho
SHH! Let the cool haired man speak. The hair screams SCIENCE!
One day I hope I could be as good a scientician as this guy.
of course the meme was already made
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They sometimes do.
fair enough. younger ladies here i come!
Are you rich enough though? Poor old guy with young wife never works.
rich is relative, and fortunately i’m not that old!
As much as I’d like to agree with you, it’s probably good for the mother to have some maturity, as well…and for the father to not be on death’s doorstep before the kids are grown.
30’s or even early 40’s works well. You just might need some IVF or adoption.
Everything goes downhill the longer one waits. Sperm and ova equally. The percentage increase of a damaged offspring is pretty low, though. The inability to produce offspring without IVF etc would be more of a concern to me, if I were particularly concerned.
Older men are more likely to produce male offspring for obvious evolutionary reasons.
Is that right?
Yes, it is. Again, the percentage increase is small.
EDIT: A brief internet search suggests I could be completely wrong. Just goes to show one should never be too sure in one’s beliefs.
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Although it is well documented that children of older fathers are more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia – one in 141 infants with fathers under 25 versus one in 47 with fathers over 50 – the reason is not well understood," she said. “Also, some studies have shown that the risk of autism starts to increase when the father is 30, plateaus after 40 and then increases again at 50.”
Well I have learned something new.
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This is messing with my evolutionary belief system. @yyy might be interested.
OK, older males with younger female partners are more likely to produce male babies for obvious evolutionary reasons.
I’m clutching at straws now.