Ian Sample: My biological clock isn't loud enough

Even though I'm aware that my fertility is declining, I still don't want to have children with someone substantially younger Maybe it was supposed to be reassuring. At 37 years old, my fertility has evidently begun to head south, thanks to my poor old sperm getting tired and fraying at the edges. But no need to dwell on the negative: I've still got a chance of a dream family one day, I was told. I just need to marry a 25-year-old. It was meant in jest, but the unsolicited advice came from a Parisian fertility doctor, who this week announced that women aren't alone in having a biological clock. Fertility takes a turn for the worse when men reach their mid-30s too, he said. By then, sperm have picked up so many genetic flaws, they start making rubbish embryos. The longer I leave it, the worse my sperm will be, and the greater... [read full story]                    

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