Dads to blame for longer pregnancies
Danish researchers led by Annette Wind Olsen have reported in the BritishMedical Journal that fathers might be responsible for pregnancies that lastlonger than 42 weeks or 294 days. The condition of prolonged pregnancies affectsaround 5% of pregnant mothers. The researchers conducted a study of about 28,000women between 1980 and 1994. About 21,000 women in the group had a firstpregnancy...Dads Age Found To Affect The Childs Risk for Schizophrenia
After studying around 700,000 people researchers say dads who have children at an older age may increase their child's risk // for developing schizophrenia later in life. Researchers based their analysis on records of patients admitted to the hospital in Sweden between 1989 and 2001 with a diagnosis of schizophrenia or another non-affective psychosis. Researchers say they found a strong...Helping Hand Needed for New Dads
New and expectant fathers are equally at risk of suffering depression as their partners, and public health services should provide// these men with proper support and counselling, according to an article in the latest Medical Journal of Australia. Mr Richard Fletcher, a lecturer in the Faculty of Health at the University of Newcastle, and colleagues say health services have only recen...Only One Percent Dads Do Diaper Duty
Men have a long way to go before they can claim to be new generation daddies, for only one percent of them usually change the nappies of their kids, according to a survey. The UK survey noted that 75 per cent mums take on the diaper duty at nearly every change and 16 percent men argue every time over the issue. According to Dr Miriam Stoppard, a baby and childcare exp...Successful Dads Have Not So Successful Daughters
Dads at the top of the pecking order can rest assured that their male offspring will take after them, but it's a very different story when it comes to the daughters, especially in the case of red deer. A new study on red deer has found that genes that may prove useful for their sons, may not have the same effects when it comes to their female offspring. The boffins al...