India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world

Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by decimalenough on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:26PM (#48418568)

Gender does matter though. Men can sire offspring into their 60s, women have marked decline in fertility starting from 32 and hit an absolute wall (menopause) by their fifties.

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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by autoexec on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:44PM (#48418749)

Men can sire offspring into their 60s but not without some increased risk of undesirable outcomes such as their kid having schizophrenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternal_age_effect

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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by bdangubic on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:34PM (#48418635)

Men offspring-ing in their 60's and dying 10 years later is perfect way to build a society where kids get to grow up without their fathers when they need them the most

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Re:India's surprise baby bust is a warning to the world by inglor_cz on Saturday June 06, 2026 @07:12AM (#48423761)

Then again, they inherit a nice house at the beginning of their adulthood instead of being a landlord's squeezed client for decades.

There are trade-offs everywhere.

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