Associations between older maternal age, use of sanctions, and children’s socio-emotional development through 7, 11, and 15 years

Trillingsgaard, Tea; Sommer, Dion

doi:10.1080/17405629.2016.1266248

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“…The previously mentioned study examining paternal age in association with the "geek index" captured higher nonverbal IQ and could be consistent with our MSEL findings [Janecka, Haworth, et al, 2017;. There has also been suggestion of improved cognitive ability (with evidence for time trends) [Goisis, Schneider, & Myrskyla, 2017], and social and emotional development, in children of older mothers [Trillingsgaard & Sommer, 2018]. Higher income, linked with improved parental educational attainment, is also associated with older parents [Goisis et al, 2017;Leung, Groes, & Santaeulalia-Llopis, 2016].…”

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The Association Between Parental Age and Autism‐Related Outcomes in Children at High Familial Risk for Autism

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Advanced parental age is a well‐replicated risk factor for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a neurodevelopmental condition with a complex and not well‐defined etiology. We sought to determine parental age associations with ASD‐related outcomes in subjects at high familial risk for ASD. A total of 397 younger siblings of a child with ASD, drawn from existing prospective high familial risk cohorts, were included in these analyses. Overall, we did not observe significant associations of advanced parental age with clinical ASD diagnosis, Social Responsiveness Scale, or Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales scores. Instead, increased odds of ASD were found with paternal age < 30 years (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 2.83 and 95% confidence intervals [CI] = 1.14–7.02). Likewise, younger age (<30 years) for both parents was associated with decreases in Mullen Scales of Early Learning early learning composite (MSEL‐ELC) scores (adjusted β = −9.62, 95% CI = −17.1 to −2.15). We also found significant increases in cognitive functioning based on MSEL‐ELC scores with increasing paternal age (adjusted β associated with a 10‐year increase in paternal age = 5.51, 95% CI = 0.70–10.3). Results suggest the potential for a different relationship between parental age and ASD‐related outcomes in families with elevated ASD risk than has been observed in general population samples. Autism Res 2020, 13: 998‐1010. © 2020 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Lay Summary Previous work suggests that older parents have a greater likelihood of having a child with autism. We investigated this relationship in the younger siblings of families who already had a child with autism. In this setting, we found a higher likelihood of autism, as well as poorer cognitive scores, in the siblings with younger fathers, and higher cognitive scores in the siblings with older parents. These results suggest that parental age associations may differ based on children's familial risk for autism.

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The Association Between Parental Age and Autism‐Related Outcomes in Children at High Familial Risk for Autism

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“…Our finding that the risk of developmental vulnerability on all domains decreased with every additional year of maternal age between 15 and 30 years is consistent with several previous studies of childhood development [ 3 , 17 , 18 ] as well as adverse perinatal outcomes [ 7 , 9 , 45 ], psychosocial and behavioural problems [ 19 , 46 , 47 ], academic outcomes [ 13 ], and adult cognitive ability [ 21 ]. Meanwhile, our finding that there was a small increase in the risk of developmental vulnerability of children born to older mothers, equivalent to the risk for children born to mothers in their early twenties, suggests there may be limits to the previously claimed benefits of increasing maternal age on offspring childhood development [ 17 , 18 , 20 ]. One of the important factors that may underlie the varying conclusions between studies is difference in the scale of the evidence.…”

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“…Increasing maternal age has been associated with better cognitive ability [ 17 ], fewer social and emotional difficulties [ 18 ], and better language acquisition [ 18 ] in two studies of approximately 30,000 children, after accounting for differences in demographic and perinatal characteristics across the maternal age range. Several smaller cohort studies (<5,000 children) have also reported better development outcomes with increasing maternal age [ 19 , 20 ]; however, estimates were grouped into broad maternal age categories because of sample size constraints, masking potential variation in outcomes among children born to older mothers. In contrast, older maternal age (i.e., >35 years) was negatively associated with offspring cognitive ability measured in half a million men aged 17–20 years of age in Sweden [ 21 ].…”

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Maternal age and offspring developmental vulnerability at age five: A population-based cohort study of Australian children

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BackgroundIn recent decades, there has been a shift to later childbearing in high-income countries. There is limited large-scale evidence of the relationship between maternal age and child outcomes beyond the perinatal period. The objective of this study is to quantify a child’s risk of developmental vulnerability at age five, according to their mother’s age at childbirth.Methods and findingsLinkage of population-level perinatal, hospital, and birth registration datasets to data from the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) and school enrolments in Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), enabled us to follow a cohort of 99,530 children from birth to their first year of school in 2009 or 2012. The study outcome was teacher-reported child development on five domains measured by the AEDC, including physical health and well-being, emotional maturity, social competence, language and cognitive skills, and communication skills and general knowledge. Developmental vulnerability was defined as domain scores below the 2009 AEDC 10th percentile cut point.The mean maternal age at childbirth was 29.6 years (standard deviation [SD], 5.7), with 4,382 children (4.4%) born to mothers aged <20 years and 20,026 children (20.1%) born to mothers aged ≥35 years. The proportion vulnerable on ≥1 domains was 21% overall and followed a reverse J-shaped distribution according to maternal age: it was highest in children born to mothers aged ≤15 years, at 40% (95% CI, 32–49), and was lowest in children born to mothers aged between 30 years and ≤35 years, at 17%–18%. For maternal ages 36 years to ≥45 years, the proportion vulnerable on ≥1 domains increased to 17%–24%. Adjustment for sociodemographic characteristics significantly attenuated vulnerability risk in children born to younger mothers, while adjustment for potentially modifiable factors, such as antenatal visits, had little additional impact across all ages. Although the multi-agency linkage yielded a broad range of sociodemographic, perinatal, health, and developmental variables at the child’s birth and school entry, the study was necessarily limited to variables available in the source data, which were mostly recorded for administrative purposes.ConclusionsIncreasing maternal age was associated with a lesser risk of developmental vulnerability for children born to mothers aged 15 years to about 30 years. In contrast, increasing maternal age beyond 35 years was generally associated with increasing vulnerability, broadly equivalent to the risk for children born to mothers in their early twenties, which is highly relevant in the international context of later childbearing. That socioeconomic disadvantage explained approximately half of the increased risk of developmental vulnerability associated with younger motherhood suggests there may be scope to improve population-level child development through policies and programs that support disadvantaged mothers and children.

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“…Older and younger parents have different parenting styles. For example, there is evidence that older mothers use less frequent sanctions towards their children, are more sensitive to the child's needs and provide more structure (Trillingsgaard & Sommer, ). Older parents may also tend to appraise a specific problem level as less disturbing than younger parents, and older parents might be more patient and are capable of setting limits, thus feeling more equipped to handle externalizing behaviors.…”

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Parental Age and Offspring Childhood Mental Health: A Multi‐Cohort, Population‐Based Investigation

Zondervan‐Zwijnenburg

Veldkamp

Neumann

et al. 2019

Child Development

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To examine the contributions of maternal and paternal age on offspring externalizing and internalizing problems, this study analyzed problem behaviors at age 10-12 years from four Dutch population-based cohorts (N = 32,892) by a multiple informant design. Bayesian evidence synthesis was used to combine results across cohorts with 50% of the data analyzed for discovery and 50% for confirmation. There was evidence of a

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Associations between older maternal age, use of sanctions, and children’s socio-emotional development through 7, 11, and 15 years

Cited by 31 publications

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The Association Between Parental Age and Autism‐Related Outcomes in Children at High Familial Risk for Autism

The Association Between Parental Age and Autism‐Related Outcomes in Children at High Familial Risk for Autism

Maternal age and offspring developmental vulnerability at age five: A population-based cohort study of Australian children

Parental Age and Offspring Childhood Mental Health: A Multi‐Cohort, Population‐Based Investigation

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