Ill start off in saying that I disagree morally with surrogate motherhood.
Given that, 63 and 65 are hardly the age of enfeeblement today. Many if not most people of that age are quite spry.
People of that age are more likely to have the time to spend on raising a child and more disposable income to spend raising a child. The article notes that the couple spent more than £100,000 on the procedure. So I would wager that they have ample funds to ensure the child has every advantage that money can provide.
So that article omits any indication of what the bosses considered unacceptable conditions of care for the child.
Given the number of naturally conceived children that are being raised by grandparents in poverty in this country I can not conceive of what would be considered unacceptable conditions by this couple.
My guess is that this is a high profile case that the bosses simply could not keep their little nit pickers off of.
I’m 63 and extremely healthy and in good shape. I would rather see a today’s 63 year old raising a baby than some of the Tide Pod eating millennials of today. How many grandparents are raising their grandchildren? Lots!