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Male Baby Angst |
05 June 2006 |
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For years we've celebrated the virility of older men, famously Charlie Chaplin fathered a child when he was seventy three, but new research into male fertility may signal a shift in men's traditionally carefree attitudes towards their reproductive powers.
A study into two thousand French couples has found that regardless of the woman's age, men who had crossed the age of forty had only a thirty per cent success rate of fathering children. So does this mean that men will start to hear their biological clock ticking as loudly as women?
In the run up to National Infertility Day, we hear from two men who desperately want children. Jenni is then joined by Andrew Samuels, Professor of Psychology at Essex University and Ellie Lee a sociologist from the University of Kent who discuss whether men suffer from baby angst in the same way as women.
National Infertility Day
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