September 5, 2006: Many news sources report on a study in the Archives of General Psychiatry. After analyzing the military records of more than 300,000 men and women in Israel, researchers found that men in their 40’s are nearly six times more likely to have an autistic child.
October 1, 2008: The Telegraph reports on a study by Japanese researchers that found that men over 33 were more likely to have autistic children. The study is published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. 84 children with “high functioning autism” and 208 children without an ASD were in the study which, it’s …read more