No more kids due to gravity of parents ages?

[Lost_Sheep]

but there is no question risk of birth defects increases with the increasing age of the woman AND the man.

Not that he is a good role model for Catholics but from a purely physiological standpoint, Hugh Hefner, who is in his 80’s somehow manages to “get the job done” fathering children with women in their 20s, and I’ve never read or heard anything about birth defects in those children.

Just my two-cents.

 

[Mary_Gail_36]

I do think its a case by case decision, or couple by couple however you want to put it. I don’t think age alone should be the deciding factor, but maybe health of the couple involved should be more important. I know couples in their mid to late 40s that are healthier than their counterparts in their 20s.

As far as the statistics go about birth defects and so on, why do people put more trust in those statistics and reports than they do God’s will? I have never understood that. We are to trust God in all things and if the couple has prayed and discerned its God’s will for them to continue to be open to life, regardless of what our secular society tells us is best, why do we continue to listen to society and turn our backs on God? God’s will a majority of time contridicts what society would tell us is the more prudent and intelligent thing to do, that’s why He gave us faith and perseverence. I don’t think age alone is a “grave” reason to not be open to life if one has properly discerned its God’s will to have more children biologically.

Agree.

We don’t have guarantees. We have an acquaintance with a sweet daughter with Down’s syndrome. She was 28 when she was born.

I was almost 40 when our youngest was born.

My grandmother in 1934 had my father, she was 46. That year her two sisters had children, one was 44 the other 42.

The biggest risk to older mom’s is miscarriage…more so than any birth defect. Miscarriage is devastating, and difficult to recover from emotionally.

Age could be a serious reason, but it shouldn’t be a “mandatory” serious reason.

 

[Equites_Christi]

She was 28 when she was born.

Wow! I wasn’t even a year old when I was born!!!

 

[Mary_Gail_36]

Wow! I wasn’t even a year old when I was born!!!

Agree.

We don’t have guarantees. We have an acquaintance with a sweet daughter with Down’s syndrome. The mom was 28 when the daughter was born.

I was almost 40 when our youngest was born.

My grandmother in 1934 had my father, she was 46. That year her two sisters had children, one was 44 the other 42.

The biggest risk to older mom’s is miscarriage…more so than any birth defect. Miscarriage is devastating, and difficult to recover from emotionally.

Age could be a serious reason, but it shouldn’t be a “mandatory” serious reason.

Better?