When I was growing up, a process I did not complete until about the age of 26 due to chronic immaturity, the prominent view among my straight friends and I was that men were far more interested in casual sex rather than commmitted relationships. We thought fatherhood and family life were things they wanted to avoid at all costs.
It took a long time for those prejudices to fade, even when we started to date men in their mid-30s and the tone of our relationships started to change. It turns out that the change may have been dictated not by our …read more

Plan to start a family later in life?
Better start looking for a younger man. According to a new study reported in today’s Guardian, men should plan for fatherhood by forty.

In the latest research, IVF experts studied the often neglected question of whether a man’s age affects the chances of a couple having children. They concluded that while the age of 35 should be considered the “amber light” in a woman’s reproductive life, men reach a similar milestone at 40.

The researchers, from fertility clinics across France, examined rates of successful pregnancies in 1,938 couples from 59 clinics. The study showed that …read more