{"id":410,"date":"2007-11-12T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2007-11-12T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T05:12:00","slug":"older-dads-older-sperm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/11\/12\/older-dads-older-sperm\/","title":{"rendered":"Older Dads, Older Sperm&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RzfSXu2zDRI\/AAAAAAAAAp0\/xyMvRPIN0KU\/s1600-h\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/RzfSXu2zDRI\/AAAAAAAAAp0\/xyMvRPIN0KU\/s200\/images.jpeg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Paul Raeburn had a great post the other week up at HuffPo on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/paul-raeburn\/older-dads-on-the-campaig_b_68726.html\">older dads on the campaign trail<\/a>.  Yep, Sen. Christopher Dodd, 63, has two daughters, age 6 and 2, with his second wife Jackie Clegg Dodd. And Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, 65, has two toddlers with his second wife, Jeri Kehn.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly do we read in these tea leaves?, asks Paul. First, that these two candidates mirror a demographic trend. Older fathers are on the rise. That&#8217;s not too surprising.  But here&#8217;s the rub: the children of older fathers face particularly high risks of schizophrenia and autism.  Drrr.  On a personal level, I hate hearing that stuff.  But do check out Paul&#8217;s post.  Paul is a journalist who writes quite smartly about various permutations of contemporary fatherhood.  I keep trying to get him to guest post here, and sense that one day soon, he will!<\/p>\n<p>Also on the dad front, check out Judith Warner&#8217;s response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mensvogue.com\/magazine\/articles\/2007\/11\/charlie_leduff?printable=true&amp;currentPage=all\">Charlie LeDuff&#8217;s essay in Men&#8217;s Vogue<\/a>, which she titles<a href=\"http:\/\/warner.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/08\/daddy-wars\/\">&#8220;Daddy Wars,&#8221;<\/a> and which begins like so:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the more pleasant outcomes of the slowly growing trend toward highly involved fatherhood has been, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve found, the ability to plainly see that total ninnyishness is not a uniquely female thing.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/warner.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/08\/daddy-wars\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"www.advancedfertility.com\">Photo cred<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Raeburn had a great post the other week up at HuffPo on older dads on the campaign trail. Yep, Sen. Christopher Dodd, 63, has two daughters, age 6 and 2, with his second wife Jackie Clegg Dodd. And Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, 65, has two toddlers with his second wife, Jeri Kehn. What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2715,876],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fatherhood","tag-men"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}