Biologically, When's The Best Time For A Couple To Conceive A Child?

[Joker37]

What does everyone think?

 

What's the most recent scientific data suggesting? At what age should we humans be making babies as to reduce complications/birth defects?

 

And generally, is the human population reproducing babies at a significantly older age compared to the ideal age?

[Rade]

The ideal age to have children, so as to reduce birth defects, is soon after the sexual organs become reproductively mature in both males and females--so mid to late teens age. The answer to your second question is yes, but only if you define ideal as the age to minimize birth defects.

 

You may find this book of interest:

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