Do young women and their respective partners need to be given a firmer grounding about the limits of their fertility?

Do young women and their respective partners need to be given a firmer grounding about the limits of their fertility? A recent article in the Globe and Mail indicates that this may be an area of public health that needs addressing as one U.S. study suggests young men and women may be grossly misinformed about the limits of their biological imperative.

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The person who's saying there should be a cap: 61-year-old Susan Tollefson, a.k.a. "Britain’s oldest mother." In 2008, Tollefson underwent IVF treatment at a Russian clinic. Using an egg from a donor and her partner’s sperm, she went on to become pregnant at the very ripe old age of 57 and gave birth to a healthy daughter, Freya.

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