Old, older and too old: age limits for medically assisted fatherhood?

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• 作者：Andrea Mechanick Braverman ; Ph.D. ; ^{andrea.braverman@jefferson.edu}
• 关键词：Paternal age ; counseling ; psychology ; age limits
• 刊名：Fertility and Sterility
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：107
• 期：2
• 页码：329-333
• 全文大小：124 K
• 卷排序：107

文摘

How old is too old to be a father? Can you be a little bit older or “old-ish” to be a dad without being considered an “older dad”? At some point, does one simply become too old to be a father? Unless a man requires medical assistance in family building, that answer has historically turned solely on his opportunity to have a willing female partner of reproductive age. As with so many other aspects of family building, assisted reproductive technologies have transformed the possibilities for—and spawned heated debates about—maternal age. Much attention has been given to this contentious topic for potential mothers, with many programs putting age-related limitations in place for their female patients. This article considers whether there should also be limits—and how we should approach that question—for men who require and seek medical assistance to become fathers.