WOMEN WHO GIVE BIRTH IN THEIR 30'S MORE LIKELY TO HAVE INTELLIGENT CHILDREN

With the growing economic challenge across the world, it's getting more challenging for couples to finally get together as this has been evident in the age they eventually do so,  if at all. 

Medical information also informs most active period of fertility for a woman is between the early and late 20's respectively. But more and more women are facing serious challenges with settling down with a man who either has no resources to take care of both of them,  or is just not available. 

However,  there is a good side to it, as new report shows women who have children in their thirties are more likely than mothers in their twenties and forties to give birth to smarter and healthier babies, new analysis suggests. This however does not override the fact that the active period of fertility is called to question. 

Data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a long-running programme which tracks the development of 18,000 British children, was used to examine the impact of a mother’s age on their child.

Researchers at the London School of Economics established children born to mothers in their thirties achieved the highest cognitive scores, outperforming those children born to twenty-something-year-old mothers and just higher than mothers in their forties.

Ms Goisis, heading up the research published in the journal Biodemography and Social Biology, also said older mothers were less likely to smoke, more likely to breastfeed and more likely to read to their children.“First-time mothers in their 30s are, for example, likely to be more educated, have higher incomes, are more likely to be in stable relationships, have healthier lifestyles, seek prenatal care earlier and have planned their pregnancies,” LSE researcher Alice Goisis, told the Times.

LSE researchers did emphasise while their study included data from a large study, the number of mothers in their forties (just 53) examined meant more research was needed. The children were examined aged five.

The average age of mothers in the UK has steadily risen from 24.5 in 1980 to 28.1 today.