Quote: (05-07-2019 10:58 AM)travolta Wrote:
Incredibly risky on their part, and I came out healthy with no retardation, so they got extremely lucky.
I think this is a bit of a statistical misconception. Having older parents increases the risk of abnormalities substantially, but it's not like you have to be "extremely lucky" to come out OK. Most still come out OK. It's just that instead of 1 in 500 having certain conditions, it's now 1 in 50. A ten times increase, but 1 in 50 means 98% will be fine. I'm pulling those numbers out of the air, but I think if you look up the stats on autism and so on, this is about the magnitude of the effect, not the inevitable production of retarded babies.
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