What the scientists are saying...

Father’s age crucial to baby’s health: A new study reveals that a father's age is crucial to the genetic risk of disorders like schizophrenia and autism in babies. Scientists say that advancement in the father’s age, (not the mother’s) is the single largest risk factor in passing on gene mutations to children. Rising rates of childhood autism have been found proportionate to age-linked hereditary mutations in sperm of fathers. Full story, here. less