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This is rather scary. I wonder if governments are going to start giving incentives for women to have kids in their early 20s. Maybe all these teen pregnancies we keep reading about are really not so bad after all?

Older mothers more likely to have infertile daughters

By Jeremy Laurance in New Orleans
Published: 25 October 2006

The trend to delay childbirth by women seeking to build careers before starting a family could provoke a fertility crisis in the next generation, research suggests.

For the first time, scientists have shown ageing not only reduces a woman's chances of becoming pregnant - it may also reduce her daughter's chances.

A study of women attending an infertility clinic found that those who failed to become pregnant had older mothers than those for whom treatment was successful and led to the birth of a baby.

Peter Nagy, the head of Reproductive Biology Associates, a fertility clinic in Atlanta, who led the study, said: "What is frightening is our parents mostly were young [when they had children]. But today society is changing and a lot of women are delaying childbirth. What we will see in 20 to 30 years' time will be completely different. It means [delay] is a problem not only for the woman, but for her daughter. It will add to pressure on women."

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article1927126.ece