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Yeah, a child that is wanted and a family unit filled with love is a great social disadvantage.
This child will have a great advantage over mine, and I'm not talking about money, either. I can't carry a tune, and my daughter used to put her hands over her ears when I sang to her. This kid won't have that problem.
What do you all think of a 62-year-old man having a child?
I have to wonder if the social conservatives who praised Elton John for being in favor of civil unions instead of same-sex marriage will also praise him for having a child at his age - not to mention the fact that he is gay.
What do you all think of a 62-year-old man having a child?
I have to wonder if the social conservatives who praised Elton John for being in favor of civil unions instead of same-sex marriage will also praise him for having a child at his age - not to mention the fact that he is gay.
I guess it isn't any worse than the women around that age who have themselves impregnated with embryos from donated eggs which has happened several times. Hopefully, both John and his partner will live to see the child fully grown but that is iffy.
I wonder if Elton will be so creative as to name the kid, Quilt. I mean, if that Jackson guy would want to confuse his "offspring" as foolishly, naming him in a noun
rather than a "dignified" name, why shouldn't EJ, make his newest acquisition just as outrageous, name the child "Bookend" or Whimmy", a manly name, fit for the best,
most lavishiously framed photo on Elton's mantle. Some aspire to sit at the fireplace and toast to the moosehead on the wall. I don't think that the kid is going to feel
so lucky, so priveleged, so special. He's bound to be little more than the latest impulse for a manboy who I still believe, really doesn't need to "take-on" a child. I can't
help but feeling that there is a generation who sits in the public eye, a group of true winners and miserable losers, but to take it out on the child by creating a sideshow,
from what would have been a regular, normal, private life, is to take your own personal feelings and consign your "progeny" to havng an overshadowed road to walk and
never really fit the shoes of the parent. The heartiest growth in my garden is the weed. It knows that unless it struggles for an existence, it will die, unnoticed, unmourned,
and always, unloved. It will always fight to live. If you were Elton John's kid, would you feel normal? Who'd be your peers? When Gordy Berry made it in Motown, where did
Hallie go? I love Nicole Richie but did anyone else out there see a bit of irony that comes of having it all, but missing the things that you need?
I do admire Elton's unselfish spirit, the willingness to help another. The world has too many takers and not enough givers. Yes, he's got the best of intentions but , to take
on a child who just may know what they expect from a loving parent, not an induging source of every contrivance, each photo op or every public moment of the rest of their
fully exposed life. The child will be instantly transported into a measure of fame, will it be able to endure? If it is said that we step into the boots of our fathers, what will the
expectations of this child be? Will he/she, "cut-it" in their own mind? I lie in my bed and see the fleeting fame of fallen stars like Danny Bonaduce, Tonya Harding, Danny Baldwin
or even Octomom, these "has-been" personalities that were up there, and found themselves here, in a new time, a different age, sucking up every bit of recognition that they can.
Damned fate! I'll be mold or moss in my grave when Elton's kid finds his way. I was here when John Lennon was murdered. This world is screwed up and even I, as nobody,
live in a measure of doubt. I wish that kid, all of the luck in the changing world. Maybe we'll get the chance to talk about it in the resurrection, if I can score a ticket.
I guess I am in the camp that Elton is too old to adopt an infant. I recall when Tony Randall, the actor, married (at age 74) a 25 year old woman. She and Tony then had two children. Tony appeared on the Tonight Show yapping about his children, yet he was soon dead (upon his death the two kids were six and seven years old). It just didn't seem fair to condemn those children to a childhood without a father. As it was, all they will recall is some decepit old man.
Of course, I am not speaking about the legal right to adopt, etc
I think it's gross, no matter who you are. I know 2 people, who, when they were born their fathers were 74 and 70. They both lost their dads at the age of 10. That is young to lose your dad. I think that you are not doing your kids any favors, rich or not. There is a reason why you should have your kids earlier in life.
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