[annelizly]

The difference is...if Fred dies of old age the child still has a young mother to finish raising him/her.

This woman has no husband and the child will be an orphan.

[Mamzelle]

I don't see much difference, except the eternal exception that is made for men that is not proferred so much for women.

This woman appears to be provident and there is likely a guardian somewhere. And news reports say that she had longed for a child her whole life. Fred already had one family, he divorced it, but I guess he liked to prove he still had it in him in his mid-sixties...

Deliberately having children this late in life is fraught with selfishness and risk, even when you're a popular conservative public figure. I would save my criticism for the health personnel that made it possible.