| Optimal Age Difference?
Posted: 8/29/2007 7:23:16 AM | Well, if you are planning on having children (and probably even if you're not), this study (in Royal Society's Biology Letters) found the following:
To have the most children, men should find a partner six years younger and women a mate four years older, Austrian researchers said on Wednesday. [This is true if the parents remain together for ALL the children the couple have.]
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[And the following indicates that BOTH men and women look for partners younger than their previous partner when finding a new one.]
The study of couples during their typical child-bearing years also showed that both men and women who changed partners usually chose a person younger than the one they had before for their second one, Fieder said.
The finding regarding men was expected but that women also traded in for a younger partner was surprising, said Fieder. He suggested that because women are older when finding a second partner, they look for a younger, more fertile man.
"This holds true both for men and women: men shift to a much younger partner; women shift to a partner less old than the first," the researchers wrote.
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I ended up with a younger new partner, and I'm younger than her previous partner. However, we are not planning to have children! Is you latest partner younger than your previous one? | |
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