Judith Shulevitz's new article explains, in detail, the fetal health risks associated with older parenthood. Razib Kahn's proposal to fix the problem:
As I don’t see a shift back to younger families among the professional classes, what’s the solution? Massive sperm and egg banking of 20 year old individuals seems like an economically feasible and effective strategy. I wouldn’t be surprised if the math works out that this reduces our long term health care costs, by cutting down on children born with congential defects and decreasing the lifetime morbidity rate of the population as a whole. Want to bend the cost curve? This might be a way!
Earlier Dish on Shulevitz here.
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