Mrs. Idonthaveaphd
We hear enough from Television shows, magazines, and blogs about how having a child in our 30s is bad for us and the baby; as if the chapter from our Biology book telling us that our children will turn out downs syndrome if we pop them out in our late 30s was not worrisome enough.
However, a new research reveals something different. It is okay if you are getting married at 32 and having a baby at 35, because your child is probably going to be taller, and a lot more educated than the one born to a younger mother. Here is the interesting part- it has nothing to do with genes!
The world is quickly advancing and that is why the benefits of being born a few years later when there is better healthcare and a more advanced education system can outweigh the biological cons of being born to an older mother.
The research team had a test group of more than 1.5 million Swedish men and women born between the years1960 to1991. They discovered that mothers who waited till their 40s to have kids were more probable to have children who were more physically fit, taller, better students, and were more likely to attend university.
The team also compared the data when it came to siblings born to the same mother, which allowed them to isolate the effect of being born earlier or later. This led to the conclusion that even when siblings were born to the same mother, but years apart, mostly decades on average, the child born to the mother when she was in her late 30s or 40s was better educated than the one who was born during the mother’s 20s, which is considered to be the most fertile period for a woman.