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  • 16 - What is known about children born to older parents?

  • from SECTION 4 - THE OUTCOMES: CHILDREN AND MOTHERS
  • Edited by Susan Bewley, William Ledger, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Dimitrios Nikolaou
  • Book:
    Reproductive Ageing
    Published online:
    05 February 2014
    Print publication:
    01 June 2009, pp 173-182

  • Summary

    Conception, pregnancy and childbirth in older mothers involve increased physical risks to both the mother and the offspring. After the age of 31 years, the probability of conception falls rapidly and older women take longer to conceive and are more likely to require reproductive assistance. Older mothers felt a lack of preparation for the material needs of the baby and a tendency to put aside thoughts of being a mother but younger infertile women were more likely to have irrational idealistic cognitions about pregnancy and parenthood. Maternal age is likely to be associated with different domains of parenting and parenting outcomes. The three distinct parenting theories are: the intuitive parenting theory, linear relationship of age to parenting, and Rossi's timing of events model. Older couples are likely to have been in a longer term partnership, on average 3-5 years longer, than younger couples, creating an altered parenting context.