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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 14:10.  Sure seemed routine to me growing up.  DH's mother was 42 when he was born.  Two of my cousins were born when my aunt was 40 and 41.  My own grandmother was 40 when my father was born.  I can think off the top of my head of three families on our block alone where there were five kids and the mother had to have been either over 40 when the last one was born or certainly pretty close to it.  And so on.  Yes, this is all anecdotal, but my point was simply that it is not a new thing to ahvve children over 40, yet no one ever thought before that people should not do it, and certainly didn't accuse older parents of selfishness.  (BTW, I had my children in my thirties, so I have no personal stake in this issue.  I simply don't like mean-spiritedness nor ignorance of social history.)

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You could have stopped with this is all anecdoctal, statistics don't support the argument you are trying to make.[/quote]

14:10 again.  You are incorrect and didn't apparently read carefully.  I said myself that this is anecdotal.  My point was not to claim that lots of women had children later in life.  My point was that when they did, they did not face mean-spirited social opprobrium, and it was not considered bizarre or selfish for women with lots of children to have had the latest one or two over 40.

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