Older dads linked to rise in mental illness

[grahamw48]

My paternal grandmother had her last (perfectly healthy) child when she was 49, so grandpa must have been getting on a bit too.

[Arthur Little]

My paternal grandmother had her last (perfectly healthy) child when she was 49, so grandpa must have been getting on a bit too.

Likewise ... BOTH my grannies - by curious coincidence - gave birth to THEIR last (perfectly normal) children when in their mid-forties.

[Arthur Little]

Bear in mind, also ... that this was back in the early years of the 20th Century ... a time when - due, presumably, to the lack of today's contraception methods - it was far from uncommon for very many married women to have LARGE families (my paternal granny, for instance, had 11 children - all of whom survived into adulthood).

So ... just THINK! How much safer it is nowadays - for ALL concerned - with modern family planning.