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Now, how about this? Parents of first-born sons and only-child daughters give more.  Say what?  Parents’ charitable giving is affected by the sex of their first child, according to a new study as reported at newswise.com. "The sex of the first-born child affects the likelihood that the parents will give to charity, the amount they give, and the types of causes and organizations they support," says Debra Mesch, the Eileen Lamb O'Gara Chair in Women’s Philanthropy and director of Women's Philanthropy Institute at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, located on the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus.   "This is an important factor influencing charitable giving that was previously unknown." The study provides the first evidence that the sex of the first-born child influences the parents' giving in two-parent families, but not in single-parent families. Among other key findings of the " Wome

Now here's something new for older fathers to worry about.  A father's age at birth may affect a daughter's risk of breast cancer later in life. First it's schizophrenia that may appear in children, with older fathers.  Then it was autism.  And now this.  I'm ashamed to say this but I'm glad sperm is starting to get the same treatment as old eggs. But wait a minute.  We're talking about really young fathers, with some kinds of cancers. While the team of researchers did not find an association for maternal age at birth for any type of cancer, they found that paternal age is linked to an increased adult-onset cancer risk for daughters – and the link was not only to advanced paternal age. Newswise.com reports that " parental age, especially paternal age, at conception appears to be associated with a wide range of effects on the health and development of the offspring. Women born to a father under the age of 20 had a 35 percent greater risk of