[sitetest]

Dear Desdemona,

Certainly, many folks have children well into their 30s, and even well into their 40s. I was born when my father was 35, and my mother was 33.

But statistically, the drop-off in fertility after age 28 is large. Partly as a result of the more common delay of childbearing into one's 30s, about one out of seven married couples who wish to have children wind up unable to conceive. Factor that into Hermann's statistics, and see what it does to the per couple ratios.


sitetest

[Desdemona]

Well, as my mother had five, all after the age of 28, I'm thinking that there are other factors in the infertility we don't know about.