When it comes to the fertility aspect, yes age does matter to achieve a healthy pregnancy. Age matters especially to the ladies but when it comes to the men, age does it matters? Let us see how it matters. So when we compare the age of the lady when we compare it with that if men, the effect of the age and the egg quality is so obvious that at the age of 35, their fertility will drastically fall down, but when it comes to them men’s age, the effect of the age and the sperm production is slow and gradual. You will not come to know until they cross certain age, around 50 or 55 years. But once they cross the age of 45 – 50, there is chance of fathering a child is going to drastically decrease after the age of 50 years. Few facts about the age, men and fertility, There is a chance of having a baby with autism, with learning disability definitely increases as the age of the father goes beyond 45 – 50 years. Even the semen volume, the sperm count and the motility will decreases after the age of 45 – 50 years. Means to say that the sperm production or the sperm quality is slowly and gradually decreases from the age of 25 years to the age upto 80 years. A couple who is trying for pregnancy the chance of failure is upto 5 times if the age of the father has crossed 50 years. At the same time it is a myth to say that a father can have a child at any given point of his age. It is a myth.