Originally Posted By: Sicilian Babe
Originally Posted By: olivant
I just read a stat on the web that states that 51% of Downs babies are born to women under 30 and 72% to women under 35.


I have no idea where you read that statistic, but I had genetic counseling when I was pregnant with my second daughter. The geneticist showed me the odds of having a child with Downs Syndrome. With each passing year, the chances increased greatly.

Frequency of Down Syndrome Per Maternal Age

Anyway, I think that Obama had the right attitude, self-serving though it might have been. Private lives should be private, especially when it comes to the children of candidates.


The stats I quoted referred to the raw number of Downs Syndrome babies and not the chances. Since younger women have the most babies, than the incidence of characteristics would be greater in their age cohort.

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