Women's long life linked to children - lots of them: The study of older Australians, found women with six or more children were about 40 per cent less likely to die during the 16-year follow-up than women with no children. The study leader, Leon Simons, of the University of NSW, said some had up to 14. ''I'm not advocating for you to have six or 14 kids, but it does seem having a few children is good for survival,'' he said. The study used information collected from more than 1200 men and 1500 women who were aged over 60 when the researchers first examined them in 1988 and 1989. ''They were having kids in the '40s and '50s, pre-oral contraceptive pill,'' Associate Professor Simons said. ''In this age group, large numbers of children were quite common.''
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