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Aging Fathers and Birth Defects By Simeon Margolis, M.D., Ph.D. - Posted Mon, Apr 02, 2007, 4:50 pm PDT

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  • 1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Apr 04, 2007, 6:43 pm PDT

    Men should know if they are losers by the time they graduate from high school. Its only worse when an old geezer wins the lotto and suddenly, life is cheap. Go ahead and do it old man, you'll be hated for eternity.

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  • 2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Apr 09, 2007, 7:39 am PDT

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  • 3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Apr 23, 2007, 1:34 pm PDT

    so ladies there aint no problem in marrying a younger man it is infact more beneficial than it is to marry older ones. so guys the earlier the smarter !be the change

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  • 4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, May 30, 2007, 11:52 am PDT

    my father was 66 and my ma was 42 when I was born. I've suffered all my life because of their age it is not just or fair to make a child suffer as much as I do.the problem is it affects my insides and I've suffered 2 heartattacks already and no one believes I'm in pain not even my [profane] doctors in Dubuque, Iowa. They say idjit crap like "YOU ARE PECULIAR!"B.S..

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  • 5. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Tue, Jun 26, 2007, 1:07 pm PDT

    What can a man who is 50 do with a young child for recreation? By the time that child is ready to play baseball with him or daughter is ready for him to walk her down the isle he will not be able to on earth maybe in heaven.

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  • 6. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Jul 06, 2007, 11:07 am PDT

    what kind of pain? i don"t know why older parents gave you pain.

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  • 7. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Jul 07, 2007, 7:14 pm PDT

    a older man can teach what a boy can not.how to live a clean life.And the true meaning of Love,Honor, Faithfulness, Caring and Sharing. You that has the older Parants, have you showed them the love they have for you? or have you always been Embarrassed of them because they were older? Thats where the Pain comes from, OH POOR ME. take A pain pill and gives them the love they have coming.Before it is to late. We can still teach The sports maybe not be able to keep up with the younger ones.But show the basics. and what true Sportmanship is. Along with what True Love, Honor,Loyaly and Friendship is. Isnt that what counts? Caring and Sharing.---Is there any test to see if our DNA is still any good?

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  • 8. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Sep 07, 2007, 4:47 am PDT

    i want to have a long penic . can u help me?

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  • 9. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Sep 07, 2007, 12:53 pm PDT

    if you cannt spell it, dont play with it.keep it short and stay out of trouble.

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  • 11. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Dec 15, 2007, 1:25 pm PST

    The average paternal age is very alarming. The autism, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, type 1 diabetes, prostate and breast cancers, MS, etc. etc. risk goes up with the age of the father. Dr. Leslie B. Raschka tried to warn about this in 2000 but was ignored. http:/%2 [profane]eofthefatherandhealthoffuture.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_archive.html

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  • 12. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Aug 22, 2008, 1:38 pm PDT

    And then my boyfriend wonders why I don't want children. I have 5 mentally handicapped people between both sides of my family, all close family members. He's 57, I'm 43. If you add all these factors together, even my doctor agreed that I am better not having any because of it. And yes, there have been several links to older fathers and children being born to them with various problems. I don't want to be the next woman to have a genetically handicapped child. I couldn't do that to them.

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