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Ely asked in Pregnancy & ParentingParenting · 4 years ago

How old is too old too have children?!?

Update:

Including adoption guys.

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    fertility & birth defects are problems for women 40+ 👵 low sperm count & libido is a problem for men 50+ 👴. Both sexes are most fertile in their 20s

    Source(s): Biology.
  • 4 years ago

    69

  • edward
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Menopause

  • 4 years ago

    I think it probably depends on the situation. But I say definitely before 45. It may be an unpopular opinion but I believe that 45-year-olds, aren't fit to raise children as much as they were 10, 15 years prior. But I really do think that you can't judge older parents, without knowing why they did what they did. I mean, 2 45-year-olds, that don't have any children, is different to 2 45-year-olds, that have a 13-year-old and an 18-year-old.

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  • 4 years ago

    40s

  • 4 years ago

    That's a completely subjective matter of personal opinion, so it can't be answered definitively. When you can no longer have children because of your age, you're too old to have them.

  • paul
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    you want an empty net by the time you are 60 ,in my opinion ....so 42

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    These days, if you haven't had a kid by 12, you probably never will. Jokes aside, about 40 or 50. You don't want to leave your kids struggling or die before they become adults.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    I would say after 45.

  • 4 years ago

    around 30, unless you really think you can handle kids until your 50...

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