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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Literally every woman we know who had a child around or after 40 has a child with health complications - from allergies to extreme disabilities.

Health issues with the child are nowhere close to the same with the fathers over 40.[/quote]

You must not be local to northern va? I run into a lot of “older moms” in my tiny social circle. Kids are all fine and rich.[/quote]

Hard to believe none of those kids have issues requiring special ed support. [/quote]

I live in northern Virginia in a wealthy area. (We chose the cheapest home in the good school neighborhood). This is not true. They may be rich, but there absolutely are a large number of kids with a range from mild to significant special needs with older moms and it's more so than those with younger. It's not PC to say it, but not only do I see it, but the research on risk would suggest what I see is likely to be accurate. You may know people who used surrogates, adopted, or just got really lucky. It's not that every older mom has a child with special needs. It's that the chances go up significantly.[/quote]

PP here. I work in the Special Education field and agree with all you said.[/quote]

NP.  All these responses are the reason why I keep my mouth shut about my age at the birth of my two kids, the older of which has SN.  And fine, pp, you can observe all you want, but if you go to a low-income area Infants and Toddlers classes are full of young moms and their brown kids.  They just didn't have the money to do the prenatal testing and abort.  [/quote]

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