Baby Mental Illness Chances Increases with Father’s Age

Baby Mental Illness Chances Increases with Father’s Age
There has been some recent findings that the older the father’s age gets, the higher the chances of having a newborn acquiring a mental illness at a later stage in his or her life or at birth.

The cutoff age seems to be at around 40-years-old, where the chances of autism, schizophrenia, “birth defects, cleft lip and palate, water on the brain, dwarfism, miscarriage and decreased intellectual capacity” can ensue. Quite a lot to swallow, huh?

Well the stats get more serious.

“Children born to fathers 40 or older had nearly a sixfold increase in the risk of autism as compared with kids whose fathers were younger than 30, and children of fathers older than 50 had a ninefold risk of autism,” according to an article in Scientific American Magazine.