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Are children from younger parents generally healthier than children from older parents?
gpt
The evidence is conflicting and confounded, largely because later parenthood is not randomized.  People who have kids at older ages are likelier to plan the pregnancy, want the kid, and fulfil its needs; they're also somewhat healthier than average because they were able to get pregnant / get someone pregnant at an older age.  Then you separate paternal from maternal age (difficult statistically, but the effects appear to be different) and things get even more complicated.  Some conditions are more prevalent in children of older parents (Down syndrome, dwarfism) but if you don't have one of those then we really don't know. You do have the bonus of being born to two people who age well, at least to age 45.