Posted on 08/26/2005 8:25:30 AM PDT by veronica
By the way, when it happens naturally, I think it's great! (God has voted.) My husband's high school girlfriend got pregnant at 52 and gave birth to triplets, three little girls. (I know you're thinking fertility drugs, but no, multiples run in her family, and older mothers are more likely to have a multiple birth. I'm thinking that she thought she was past all that, as we women tend to do, but was wrong.) Anyway, I once told a 40 year-old divorced father or 3 (who was dating and looking for a woman who didn't want children) that story, describing it as life sometimes throwing a curve-ball, and you should have seen his face. He turned pale and said, "That's not a curve-ball, that's a sinker." It was funny.
Anyway, the older parents of my anecdote have plenty of money and are delighted with the wild, unexpected turn that their life has taken.
Oh, and while human circumstances DO change, human nature doesn't. If you don't believe me, read St. Augustine (either the "Confessions" or "City of God"), and then try to tell me that people are any different today than they were 1600 years ago.
I dated an older babe also. She could really cook in any room in the house too!! 8^)
Nam Vet
Just wanted to add that my grandmother out lived my mother. She died at age 94 and always claimed that my aunt kept her young.
LOL.
He's not hard to look at, that's for sure.
Yes, late births do indeed happen naturally, and like I said, when they do, I think that's great! A woman who retains her fertility that late has also retained both her bone mass and musculature, as they're all related. But a woman who cannot naturally have a child at that age is fighting to retain the rest of her physical capacities (I know, I'm dancing around menopause myself.) But, take a look at Diane Keaton. Do you think she's NOT fighting to retain bone mass and musculature?
As for older fathers, I agree that it is also an issue that Michael Douglas will be 80 when his children go to college. Unless he turns out to be a magnificent physical speciman, don't you think that's also cheating the kids? I do.
I just think that people need to think about more than just whether or not they want a child. In my example and yours, God voted, so that's fine, but in the case of old adoptive parents, or extraordinary measures to enhance the fertility of an older prospective mother, or older fathers, don't you think that people ought to consider what life as the child of such a much older parent will be like? I do. Having children isn't only, or even mostly, about the parents-- it's about the children.
Human interest. Mind candy. A break from Mother Sheehan and her America-hating lunacy.
He surely was..
MILF is not limited to teenagers
You like Keanuing?
Robber of the cradle, you are!
Who cares?! I just popped in to say that I could give a rat's hiney what the "celebs" are doing. :)
You know, for a group of people who yell at the rest of us for being bigots...they sure go to great length to shove people into the closet.
I don't care. Keep it out of my face and if you can act, you can act.
What a bunch of elitist dopes.
BTW...Liz Taylor wasn't cover..she was confirmation. Next step...Judy Garland.
I hope you read my other posts on this thread.
I honestly DO like Kathy Bates.
She is wonderfully talented and gifted.
And, she is very versatile
One of my favorite actors...
"Bates piped up and said...Are you kidding me? The only reason Jack did this film is because he has been pining away all these years about doing a nude seen with me.
Nicholson turned beet red. I have never seen him completely out of control, but he was."
ROTFLOL!
I bet that was GREAT!
I bet it takes a lot to embarrass him.
Whatta woman!
Thank you for relating that story. ;o)
I think it's nice. Diane Keaton is a very unusual character. I say GOOD LUCK TO YA!
I love the movie, BABY BOOM!
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