Cloning is safer - the perils of sexual DNA combination?

[Anomalocaris]

as I understand it, the particular health issues encountered by cloned animals but not their parent animals can generally be traced to the type and age of the cells in the parent animal that was used in the cloning.   If the original cell in the parent animal has already undergone many generations of cellular reproduction within the parent animal before it was used for cloning, the chances are higher that animals cloned from its DNA will menifest harmful mutations acquired during past cellular  reproduction by this particular lineage of cells but not generally menifested by all cells in the parent animal.   If the original cell were close to the stem cells, cloning has a high chance producing an exact genetic replica of the parent animal during its own embryonic stage.