Study Links Older Fatherhood with Autistic Children
Friday September 15, 2006
Researchers at Columbia University have completed a study which purports that men who become fathers after age 40 have a higher probability of having autistic children than do younger fathers. Read more about the Columbia study and the implications for men who become dads later in life.
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I wish that all the studies linking schizophrenia, now autism, early childhood cancers, duchennes muscular dystrophy etc.etc. would be publicized in one place. There have been researchers recommending, for the health of the child, that childbearing be completed by age 40 and finding that sperm do accumulate mutations since the 1960s.
Let’s think of the off spring first!
Semen can be frozen at an earlier age if one might want to father later