There's a tragedy behind the story of a woman pregnant at 50. The Edwardses lost 16-year-old son Wade in a car accident in 1996, and the trauma transformed their lives. Edwards, a personal-injury lawyer, embarked on the political career he had discussed with Wade. Elizabeth Edwards turned from bankruptcy law to volunteer work. They set up after-school and scholarship programs in Wade's memory. The pair, who have a 22-year-old daughter, Cate, also decided to try to have more children.
Elizabeth Edwards described the dark period in an interview in November with USA TODAY. She called the loss of a child "an A.D./B.C. moment. We can date everything in our lives by where it stands in relation to Wade's death."
To recover, she said, the family resolved to "try to regrab happiness and a healthy life but never at any time let go of Wade's memory." She and her husband asked themselves, "How is it that we reintroduce joy to our life? ... It was an easy answer. Children give us joy." The results were Emma Claire, now 6, and Jack, 4.
Isn't that just the saddest thing you've ever read; they had a daughter, but needed more children (by fertility drugs) to put joy back in their lives? How must Cate feel?
Is this guy Socas wearing more eye-liner than Alice Cooper or what?
Not important???
For a woman her age to undergo fertility treatments not once but twice....is pathetic. It would seem that the search for joy was dependent upon having another son.