January 17, 2012
Women and men, it seems, are in the same boat on the sea of fertility. As we age, the ride to parenthood gets rockier. We most often talk about women’s bodies being ticking time bombs, but just as a woman’s “fecundity and fertility starts to decline precipitously after 32, a man’s semen quality and fertility also ...
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September 28, 2010
Everyone is always talking about women’s biological clocks and their desire for children. But what about the men? Dave Mills has just written an article about what it’s like to be a broody man. He despairs that “the common assumption is that men are in no rush to give up their freedom and settle down. ...