Re: Older fathers


"Chris Dickinson" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ian Goddard wrote in reply to my:


Do any of you feel that a similar message comes from your
genealogical
researches?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2059130/Scientists-reveal-dangers-of--older-fathers.html


That would be unlikely. It requires a larger sample than most
genealogists would get from recent generations and the effect
probably
wouldn't be prominent amongst earlier generations where other
causes of
early mortality would mask it.
<snip>


Yes, you are probably right. I study a group of parishes pre-1750,
so I may
have a different perspective - but, as you say, other causes of
early
mortality would be likely to mask the effect.

I observed not so long ago, in chatting with somone about the
morality of
IVF treatment for older women, that we are socially accustomed to
men having
children at a late age through second or third marriages. This is,
of
course, a different moral issue; but, still, intrigued me in the
light of that discussion.

What is 'older', hat is a 'late age'? Won't those terms change with
culture, social status, health, opportunity, amd much else?

There is one anti-older father point which an aunt of mine told her
son when he fathered a son - at 57 and in his fifth marriage. Are you
going to be fit enough to keep up with the activity demands of a
teenage boy?

Don


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