• Question: Its was proven that Down Syndrome affects children born of older women, but why is it that nowadays, younger women produce children with extra chromosome, that's Down Syndrome?

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      Remsha Afzal answered on 16 Nov 2018:

      That is simply because older mothers tend to have fewer babies. 🙂 But in general older women DO have a higher chance of having babies with downs syndrome than younger mothers but we don’t notice it because fewer ladies become mothers over 40.
      The chance that a woman under age 30 who becomes pregnant will have a baby with Down syndrome is less than one in 1,000, but the chance increases to 1 in 400 for women who become pregnant at age 35. By age 42, the chance is one in 60 that a pregnant woman will have a baby with DS, and by age 49, the chance is one in 12!