Thread: Having children

I had been thinking that many of my friends were unable to have children, or if they did, the children had some sort of disability. I calculated it up based on the people I am still friends with that are the same age as me and grew up in my area. This is what I found:

Total Couples: 16
Couples who have healthy Children: 8
Couples who are unable to have children: 4
Couples who have 1 or more autistic children: 4

50% of the friends I know about are either unable to have children or have autistic children. Any ideas why this number would be so high for my area?

total number of children please

where do you live?

How old are the children? If they are very young still, maybe your local doctor is over-diagnosing autism?

How old are you and your friends? Unfortunately the likelihood of autism (and infertility) increases with maternal age Higher maternal age predicts risk of autism

How do you know that the couples without children are unable to have children, that they don't choose to be childfree? That is very personal information.