In the developed states the married couples more often decide on the child's birth at rather mature age. About what consequences for the child can come if his mom stepped over a forty-year boundary, a lot of things are written, but recently the interest of scientists is attracted by a problem of late paternity.
Mature fathers meet rather often, especially in the bohemian environment where birth children is not connected with calculation of level of prosperity of family. If to look at fashionable directors and actors, then the children born after 50, any more not news. At some kids are born in 60 and 70. Long time of a parallel between age of the father and problems of health of the newborn was not spent, modern scientific research showed that it after all is available.
In spite of the fact that children of elderly parents more long-awaited and often much more attention, than at young age is paid to them, at the genetic level they keep in themselves all diseases which are saved up for the lived years by mom and dad. There is an opinion that with age the man has mutations at the gene level and the quality of spermatozoa becomes worse, than in youth. And the man is more senior, the it is more these mutations that cannot but affect health of future kid. Therefore such children are in risk group even from the moment of conception. Difficulties can arise also after the birth.
At the same time reliable information that children of old fathers are initially doomed to any certain diseases just does not exist. Even if the child of mature parents is present or has a disease, to precisely tell what was its reason and whether it was possible to avoid it if he was conceived earlier, it is just impossible. At young parents children with difficulties with health including with gene mutations are also born. For a warning of possible problems to mature parents the consultation of the geneticist who will help to count possible problems is recommended. Also it is necessary to consider that completely to exclude possible diseases of the child science not in forces yet therefore all responsibility about making decision on the birth of the kid lies only on his parents.