Men over 60 'have healthier babies than teen fathers'

Men over 60 'have healthier babies than teen fathers'
By FIONA MACRAE - More by this author »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512724&in_page_id=1770

Older men have healthier babies than their teenage counterparts, says a study.

Even if the man is in his 60s, the health risks for the child are no higher than average.

In contrast, babies with fathers in their teens have more chance of arriving prematurely or dying before their first birthday.


Well-known older fathers include Des O'Connor, who had his fifth child at 73, and Rod Stewart, who had his seventh at 60.

The study, the largest of its kind, compared data on the health of 2.6million babies born in the U.S. over a five-year period with the age of their fathers. All the babies were born to women of a similar age.


Analysis showed that children of teenage fathers suffered many more problems in the first hours and months of life than those born to men in their 20s - the decade thought to produce the healthiest children.

Boys and girls with teenage fathers were 13 per cent more likely to be underweight at birth and 15 per cent more likely to have been born prematurely.

They were also 22 per cent more likely to die within the first month of birth and 41 per cent more likely to have died before their first birthday.

In contrast, babies of fathers in their 40s, 50s and 60s suffered no more problems than those born to men in their 20s, the journal Human Reproduction reports.

The researchers, from the Ottawa Health Research Institute in Canada, said the combination of the scale of the study and the limited age range of the mothers meant the findings were unlikely to be down to chance.

Professor Shi Wu Wen, senior scientist at the Institute, said: "The magnitude of the risks to society could be huge, given the number of births worldwide, if the increases we found are truly attributable to parental age."

It was unclear why a young age should have such an effect although teenagers are thought to produce lower quality sperm.

Lifestyle may also play a large role, with young fathers likely to have less money to lavish on their pregnant partner, and, perhaps, being more likely to drink and smoke.

British experts said the explanation was likely to lie in lifestyle. Dr Allan Pacey, a male fertility expert from Sheffield University, said: "It makes sense that babies born to sugar daddies probably have a better start to life."

The study did not look at the risk of birth defects. Previous work by the same team has shown that babies born to older fathers are at greater risk of conditions such as Down's syndrome, whereas the risk of spina bifida is higher with younger fathers

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Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

As if these older fuckers need any more encouragement to find dumb young bunnies who will shit out their babies.

Am, you are right on with that one!

What a total waste of study money. It's a documented fact that old sperm carries a greater risk of autism and other disorders, period.

And aren't these idjits missing the point when they compare the sperm of teenaged boys versus the sperm of old geezers? That's like spending money to research whether someone with Kleinfelter's Syndrome (XXY chromosome) can beat someone with Down's syndrome in a 50 yard dash. THEY ARE BOTH STILL RETARDED. WHO CARES?

It's the same deal here. NEITHER GROUP SHOULD BE BREEDING!!! One is too young and stupid to raise a kid and the other group will likely be DEAD before the kid reaches college.

Isn't the whole point to be around to raise them?

And I suspect something's fishy here:

"Boys and girls with teenage fathers were 13 per cent more likely to be underweight at birth and 15 per cent more likely to have been born prematurely. They were also 22 per cent more likely to die within the first month of birth and 41 per cent more likely to have died before their first birthday."

If anything, these figures suggest perhaps there is more post-natal abortion going on for these sproggen born to younger fathers.

perhaps nature is saying they shouldnt breed so young.. (as the downs and other saying older shouldnt breed)

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I just post the stories, for interest.. for everyone

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

Geezerbreeders. Ew.

I hope older men aren't taking inspiration from the late Tony Randall. Remember how everyone gushed over his "accomplishment" of fathering a chyld at what, age 75, I think it was? And notice how he's not quite on this earth any more while the sprog is still young.

Adoption agencies have guidelines on maximum ages for adoptive parents for a reason. We need to extend these to all parents. Just because men aged 60+ supposedly have "healthier" babies than teen fathers doesn't make the idea of grandpa knocking up a woman great.

And this is just one study. The next study to come along might entirely contradict these findings. This happens a lot in social and medical research.

Help. Dirty old men on the rise!

Yea, and with all the old breeders producing kids that they won't be around for by the time the kid reaches 18, the taxpayers get to pick up the slack by way of social security for these kids because of having a deceased father.

In most of these cases, tax payers also get to pick up the slack for kawledge tuition.

Some may definately have a problem with the 'rise' part..

Viagara to the rescue!

Viagara is probably the result of the catholic church wanting to make sure that every man, well into his 90's, can still reproduce.

Thanks, thanks for helping enhance my diet plan with vomiting.
Geezerbreeders.....bleeeaaauuuurrrgghh!

"It truly is the one commonality that every designation of humans you can think of has, there's at least one asshole."
--Me

KidFreeLuvnLife Wrote:
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> Viagara to the rescue!
>
> Viagara is probably the result of the catholic
> church wanting to make sure that every man, well
> into his 90's, can still reproduce.

Lest I get pinged for making another remark about sexism, a Catholic deacon wrote into the USA Today in 1998 when Viagra made it's debut stating how the Church had no problem with that drug like it did with contraception for women. His statement was Viagra was helping men do what God intended while birth control helped women trick God and His "will" for them by escaping those babies.

your only reporting what an idiot said, that guy is sexist and idiotic.

i would say well god gave the knowledge of birth control so that women could not have children, if he didnt want people to know then.. why didnt he zap them with lightning.

(not all catholics are as dumb as that deacon.. thats his 15 mins of fame)

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I just post the stories, for interest.. for everyone

Lord, what fools these mortals be!
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene ii

Voltaire said: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

H.L.Mencken wrote:"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein