Men: DON'T get married until you're at least 30 yrs old

[gixajo]

Men: mary when you want but do it well. And if you want, don't get married.

This advice is useful for the subject of getting married or for any other subject in life, and it is equally valid for women.

[rothaer]

Man can still have kids with women in his 70s so what is hurry to breed?

To experience grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

This was a very aware to me aspect already when I was 18. I experienced and exchanged a lot with my grandparents and the imagination that that would not have been possible would have been an incredible loss to me. It's not about some emotional blah blah, but about identification and enormously valuable exchange that I could not have had with my parents, because they where - like most people in that situation - much absorbed by their work, parenting and being inmidst of necessary activity. This way I got aware of the important function of grandparents. I'm not sure, but I even think that within a population regarding the passing down of culture grandparents are more important than parents.

Regardless of this you are right that a man can breed as well in his 70s (if he has a sufficient mental readiness). This is a great gift to the men.

[rothaer]

Yes, sounds about right.

I guess because higher IQ people have longer schooling period and tend to start their families later on average (there are exceptions but average for sure). Older fathers are usually better educated/of higher social status than younger ones so they tend to have higher IQ which children will inherit.

Which means that there is no causation for high IQ. (The same parents would have had the same high IQ children in their 20s.)

[Jana]

Which means that there is no causation for high IQ. (The same parents would have had the same high IQ children in their 20s.)

That's correct.

[gixajo]

Which means that there is no causation for high IQ. (The same parents would have had the same high IQ children in their 20s.)

The age of the parents is one more factor, among many, that affects how the child will be. But there are so many factors that interact with each other, some canceling each other, others reinforcing each other, others one thing or another depending on the presence of one condition or another, that it is difficult to use statistics even to predict what the child will be like.

[Lemminkäinen]

If you want children marry and get them in your 20s and you can do what you want to do in your 40s, at the age you still can do everything and you have resources to do it. People say education, money, and priorities while in 20s, but factually it means celebrating and who wants continue celebrating to the 30s.

[Hektor12]

I dont know bro. My gf constantly tells me that first childbirth should be before age 30. She talks about some kind of medical advises.

Its a real hard decision, you end your life in just a moment and a new life begins. But maybe its more fun, who knows?

[Jana]

I dont know bro. My gf constantly tells me that first childbirth should be before age 30. She talks about some kind of medical advises.

Its a real hard decision, you end your life in just a moment and a new life begins. But maybe its more fun, who knows?

It is indeed advised for women to have their first child before age 30.

[Atlantic Reptilian]

But sperm from older men have longer telomeres (possible longer life andf ewer health problems) than average and effect is additive over generations.

But aging leads to an increasing amount of genetic mutations?

[Sylvanas]

It is indeed advised for women to have their first child before age 30.

But sperm from older men have longer telomeres (possible longer life and fewer health problems) than average and effect is additive over generations.