Childrens Intellect?

Hmm, maybe it could be that the parents are smarter that have their children in their thirties, now before everyone bashes me, this is my reasoning (and I had my child in my 20's). My aunt had a college education, career, all that stuff and she couldn't have a child until she was in her 30's because she did all that stuff and had to get it out of the way to make money for the life she wanted to have with her family (like a house thats paid for, travelling, etc). I think smart people have their kids in their 20's, obviously since I did lol, but maybe that could be why since a lot of career/college educated women wait longer.

Well I have had a child in my twenties and in my thirties. Each of my children are intelligent in their own right, their personalities and interest are different but I don't think that has anything to do with how old I was when I had them. I have one child who loves to read and the other child who loves singing and dancing. I think every child has it's own genetic make up and take some parts of each parent.

I don't know about statistics but I know my children are very intelligent. As I had my youngest when I was 24 and my oldest when I was only 19, I am very inclined to not believe the article. It certainly has more to do with how a child is raised than the age of the parents. I think older parents may be prepared to spend more time with a child and would have, possibly, given more thought to having and preparing for a child in the first place. These, and other factors, may influence a child in many ways. I won't get into my own personal views but I have noticed that the things I do to look after my children are more like that which older mums do or have done rather than other parents of a similar age. So, in a way, the study may be correct, but only by default because of other factors.

I think it sounds bogus too, why? There is more chance of problems with the infants the older the mother's get, so making them more intelligent is really not likely. I think the mother's health is the most important thing in the development of the fetus & as i said, there are more risks & higher chances of defects if you wait to have children. It's not to say it's bad to wait, you just have to weigh up the risks involved before you decide to leave it until later in life!

That's an interesting theory. Was it based on research? What factors did the author think contributed to the difference?