| 1 | But being older parents has its drawbacks, too. | |
| 2 | It's a pity I was born a few years late. | |
| 3 | Gordon Brown must have hoped he was dealing with China of 1840s ruled under the spineless Manchurains. Sorry, you were born more than a century too later. Go blame your parents. | |
| 4 | "The cognitive development of their children is reduced, and their own cognitive development is impaired compared with those mothers with a later first birth," say the researchers. | |
| 5 | Born eight years before the First World War, he has outlived all of his contemporaries and two of his six children. One of his eight great-grandchildren is more than a century younger than him. |
