Posted on 12/23/2017 6:16:54 PM PST by simpson96
Aging is inevitable. However, if you want to slow down the process, you should consider having no more than two children, a new report suggests.
To do so, they solicited more than 500 people to examine photographs of middle-aged women. The images were categorized into three sections: those with two to three kids, those with four to five and those with seven to nine.
After examining the results, they found that women with fewer children were seen as younger and healthier than those with more children.
In fact, the lowest scores were given to women with seven to nine children.
Why is that?
“Mechanisms behind the observed variation in facial appearance are not known but higher levels of oxidative stress among women with high parity may explain their faster aging and lower attractiveness in older age,” the authors said in a study.
Childbirth wasn’t the only factor considered. Scientists also factored in gestation, lactation and childcare, which they believe also contribute to higher levels of oxidative stress.
“These results suggest that costs of reproduction might affect women's physical appearance,” they said.
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Who is that?
I am sorry for your experience, but mine was much different. As one of 9 children, I learned a lot about loving and laughing, and we are still very close.
I disagree, somehow both of my parents had time for each of us. I never felt neglected in any way and got to spend alone time with both of them, and each one as well, somehow they made sure of it. I would not trade my childhood for anything different.
I am sorry you feel the way you do about yours, maybe you have a more solitary personality that does not work with a large family, perhaps you would have been happier as an only child- but that does not mean everyone would.
Having more kids CAN be a factor that ages a woman faster.
But why must it be necessary to say that comes with many caveats.
Context -
general health factors of the woman to start with (family history of systemic illnesses, like heart disease??), general nutritional health of the woman, husband-wife relationship, family income, ease or difficulty of the births, methods of child rearing as applies to harmonious or more difficult family relations [and other factors] -
adds to or eases the obvious greater physical stress of pregnancy and birth of many children.
A friend. She runs marathons now.
When I met her, she was alone with a newborn. “Your first?” I asked, she looking so young. “No, my thirteenth” she smiled.
I also know a Miss America top 10 finalist. 6 kids. Still staggeringly hot.
Notably, both are devout Christians.
ConservaTeen: ‘People who believe this is a Moronic idiot.’
I know you’re referring to islam, but what man in his right mind would want 4 wives? That’s 4 mothers-in-law.
Well, it’s not true for me and i’m in the lowest score group. Maybe they polled leftists who hate children and made up the rest.
BS! My grandmother had 13 children and lived to be 97. She did not age rapidly. She remained youthful until the last year before she died.
That’s exactly what this is all about. Their BS is so easy to see right through.
My experience is that you are wrong.
Thanks for posting those links. Very interesting articles.
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Merry Christmas
Your thinking is unbiblical.
If large families didn’t “work” categorically God would not endorse them.
I am sorry for your bad experience but believe me there are many only children or, in my case, two child situations who had severe dysfunction.
I’ll think right now if my five “best friends”
1. One of three daughters, her dad was so insanely filled with rage (screamed through the nights, extraordinary and constant verbal abuse, until he died when she was in her 50s) that she is still shattered and overcoming his influence.
2. One of three, she was molested by a neighbor and disbelieved by her parents. It was ongoing. She is estranged from all her family except her dad who paradoxically was the one not told.
3. Adopted into a family with two other children, she was molested for years by her adopted brother repeatedly. Pregnant out of wedlock in her teens she was forced to place for adoption. She returned and quickly married a terrible man.
4. One of three sisters, she was held to harsh standards and went bulemic , a condition she struggled with into her 30s. She could not even have her family visit with family while dying of cancer. She needed her husband to be on the phone with her when her mom would call to monitor and protect.
5. And one out of ten in a Filipino family. She has reported no trauma to me but I have not asked.
These are my five besties, good women, well adjusted when I met them but dealing with hard things in their past and present. They were all good moms. Between the five of them they actually have adopted three and essentially adopted a nephew.
Small families can be horror shows too.
Typical NPR garbage. I was there when my 7th grand was born, this was a Women’s hospital with a whole floor for just OB. The incompetence was to high, not enough Doctors on staff or call. She started to flat line her labor at 5 CC, they ended up putting the baby monitor internal along with a urine Cather. No walking to help speed labor, just shots. They made her run a fever which then had to be treated. At 7 CC she was flat lined, and the OB should have been called and a C Section done. After over 12 hrs, and finally making it to 9 CC they finally called the OB in, as the baby was in distress, and there was NO way a natural delivery was going to happen. Took them 2 hrs to prep her for that ER C Section. They were lucky nothing went wrong.
I’ve had ER C-Section, didn’t take no 2 hrs, 30 mins tops, that was back when we actually had decent hospitals and doctors 1972.
What gets my dander up her family basically deserted her for the gift shop and cafeteria. They couldn’t take her pain. The dad, my youngest stayed there the whole time, he and I took care of her when the fever spiked, as not 1 of the idiots thought to even take a cold wet cloth to her sweating fevered brow. He has turned into a great father and a life partner. I look for wedding bells before long.
LIBERALS stupidity on display deluxe. Didn’t even like me praying over her before they took her to surgery.
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