News flash: fertility declines with age! July 31, 2018 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 12,440 |
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A survey of 1,215 students from the University of Melbourne found less than half could pick the age period when fertility in women declines significantly — for the record, it's 35 to 39 years old.
Fewer than one in five students could pick when men reach the twilight of their fertility years — between the ages of 45 and 49.
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Fertility experts say the research points to a broader phenomenon of young people putting off having a baby because of "unrealistic expectations" of what they want to achieve before having children.
The paper's lead author, Eugenie Prior, says it's a worrying precedent.
Most of the university students she interviewed expressed an overwhelming desire to be parents one day.
"But there's so many things that they want to achieve before they have children," Dr Prior said.
"They want to be advanced in their profession, they want to be financially stable, they want to travel, they want to be in a stable relationships," she said.
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"You've got to prioritise things that are meaningful to you," Dr Lew said.
"If it's really important to ...have children in their future, think about how that might happen and the context that it might happen," she said.
"It's something that can really save a lot of heartache later on."
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