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A lot of men become fathers in their 50s..or even older and I don't really hear people saying they are selfish.
Of course a man having a baby at 70 means the woman having is close to half his age so she is likely to survive to raise the child.
Women tend to outlive men and if both parents are 60 I understand the issue/concern but again, what about the old men popping out babies as senior citizens?
Always a double standard when it comes to pregnancy and kids.
A lot of men become fathers in their 50s..or even older and I don't really hear people saying they are selfish.
Of course a man having a baby at 70 means the woman having is close to half his age so she is likely to survive to raise the child.
Women tend to outlive men and if both parents are 60 I understand the issue/concern but again, what about the old men popping out babies as senior citizens?
If you were the children, wouldn’t you choose to be born, rather than not? Young mothers also die before their children are grown too.
That really doesn't make any sense. An infant cant comprehend having never been born or actually what it is to be alive, definitely not genetic material not yet conceived.
It is not that uncommon for people to whish they had never been born and actually take their own life.
I dont think men should be becoming fathers in their 50s either.
I know of two guys who had kids in their fifties who died in their sixties this past year. So left kids around ten years old, and both moms are now in their fifties. Hope the mothers stay healthy. It's quite a burden on a kid to have to think about both their parents health at an age they should be carefree. For a lot of us health issues started cropping up in our fifties. By then our kids should be old enough to stand on their own and maybe help us out if we get sick - not infants or ten years old. Many of these kids will be young adult caregivers for elderly parents and miss out on a lot of their own youth.
I dont think men should be becoming fathers in their 50s either.
My father probably didn't either but he did, become a father at 50.
One good thing (in his opinion) is that he had a son "to carry on the family name" after three daughters. And he had only sisters.
We've all heard stories of older celebrities having kids but this is an average woman who is a teacher from NH having a baby. Her husband is 65 and they had not too long ago lost their 13 year year old daughter to a brain aneurysm. She had IVF
Just curious if anyone thinks this will become the norm? What's stopping other women in their 50s from getting pregnant? Common sense ? Maybe it isn't that crazy seeing how people do live to be in their 90s.
Basic sanity is stopping other women in their 50s from getting pregnant! I am a 55 year old woman and the last thing I would want at this point in my life is a baby. I am physically fit and healthy, but just thinking about going through all of the stages and events of childhood again makes me exhausted. There is a reason why the natural age of fertility for a woman ends by about 40-45.
People always screw things up when they mess with God or Mother Nature, whichever you believe controls the natural age of fertility. For me it's God, and He also gave me enough common sense to know that I am chronologically, physically, and mentally way beyond childbearing and rearing. I did that in my 20s and 30s and it worked out just fine. I truly pity anyone who still has a pre-schooler on her sixtieth birthday!
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after three daughters. And he had only sisters.
