Posted on 07/07/2008 3:06:52 PM PDT by inflorida
She was utterly determined to have a son.
The fact that to do so would make 70-year-old Omkari Panwar the world's oldest mother didn't even cross her mind.
Her resolve was matched by her husband Charan Singh Panwar, 77.
To pay for the IVF treatment vital to producing a male heir to the family's smallholdings, the retired farmer sold his buffalos, mortgaged his land, spent his life savings and took out a credit card loan.
And it all paid off when Mrs Panwar gave birth to twins - a boy and girl - by emergency Caesarean section in hospital in Muzaffarnagar, seven hours drive north of the Indian capital New Delhi.
The twins, born a month premature and weighing 2lb each, are healthy, according to doctors.
The Panwars already have two adult daughters, and five grandchildren, but the latest arrivals are what they have been waiting for - not least because a son will benefit from a dowry when he marries and will be able to work their land.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
To pay for the IVF treatment vital to producing a male heir to the family’s smallholdings, the retired farmer sold his buffalos, mortgaged his land, spent his life savings and took out a credit card loan.
why yes! so important to have kids to leave them a mortgaged smallholdings.
OK, help me out here....her newborn kids is already an uncle and aunt, assuming that her other kids had kids, right?
[Her resolve was matched by her husband Charan Singh Panwar, 77.]
At their age, the kid will probably be an orphan in a few years and deep in debt.
Right. And at 77 ... which of the older kids will be raising their youngest siblings?
Yeah. Who knows what the hell they were intending.
Well, I just read the whole story, and this kid will be paying off his parents’ dream with the dowry of his wife. They see his future as farming the mortgaged land.
Click on the link and there’s a picture of the 2 lb. each twins. They were sent off to a specialized hospital to grow them to full term size. I would think the hospitalization would be expensive, too.
Selfish,selfish, selfish. And, just wrong.
Shhh. This makes my 70 yr old husband nervous.
When he gets out of line, I (65) threaten to get pregnant again!
Oops, wrong thread.
Since they will die within a few years with the land mortgaged and the son too young to pay it back, and the son will have nothing to inherit.
I suppose it's a little late to break it to these confused parents, but due to the shortage of females, the dowry system has been getting turned on its head in India. In many marriages there's no dowry paid at all, and increasingly the families of the scarce marriageable young women are demanding that the prospective bridegroom or his family pay THEM a dowry. The laws of economics are unrelenting. Scarcity increases the price of any commodity.
Of this set of boy-girl twins, it's the girl who has the best chance to rake in money to pay off the mortgage on the farm. Maybe she'll be kind enough to let her unmarried brother live and work there.
When it happens, will we read about it on FR?
“;^)
Sure!
It will be a genuine miracle!
“the retired farmer sold his buffalos, mortgaged his land,”
Was Countrywide involved with this mortgage?
She’s so old if the kids are breast fed. They will get powdered milk.
Don't worry about him. The Dems in Congress will come up with a plan to bail him out.
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