Posted on 01/23/2005 6:11:43 AM PST by flitton
Let us not forget this is NOT her baby.
....Oh, one more thing, I was never tired at 40!
But she's not going to have to worry about its natural parent showing up to reclaim either . . .
How do you take care of anonymous (the father)? Children need a father IMHO... Biological or not... In this case, neither is provided.
Shouldawoulda--
So God had nothing to do with this conception, this birth? Perish the thought--but what's to say the child outlives the parent?
Well I'm not embarressed to admit that I'm very tired. I've been raising kids for the last 16 years and it's taken alot out of me. No way would I want to take on another child now much less in 20 years.
It's very selfish to convince yourself your still as good as you used to be when it comes to the welfare of a baby.
Your friends may be coping with raising a child in their 60's but I'd guess the child is not getting all the time attention and care it would from younger parents.
It's a fact of life and probably the reason we women start losing our ability to have babies from our 40s on up.
Biologically related or not, a child in most cultures is at some point responsible for the "parent"--even in our own.
" . . .but I'd guess the child is not getting all the time attention and care it would from younger parents."
All the time and attention from 30-yr.-old "mothers" who are full-time corporate employees? Please.
I don't get your point. Age has a great deal to do with pregnancy. At some point, usually in the mid to late 40's, women reach menopause. After that, they are naturally infertile. Sometimes women become pregnant naturally in their 50's, but that's fairly rare.
I'm not saying age has little to do with PREGNANCY (but, as this case proves, its relevance may be diminishing)--but little to do with caring for children! Where do you suppose the term "nanny" came from?
Oh, get off your high horse. Not ALL women are that evil creature the 'corporate employee'.
True--not all. But who do you suppose accounts for MOST of the abortions in this country? Married, employed women (and frequently 2nd & 3rd-timers).
Bingo!!! I had my last child at 42 and a miscarriage at 44 after that I did not get pregnant again. At 51 there are times it would be great to have a newborn BUT my baby days are over and I accept that!
From people who want to pretend that hired help is the equivalent of family. It's not true.
But I agree that older people can be effective parents. Although women cannot normally give birth in old age (and the fact that technology could allow this woman to incubate someone else's baby does not make it anything other than insane) men can certainly become fathers at any age, with younger women.
Or older couples can be adoptive parents, foster parents, rear grandchildren, etc. It's up to them to evaluate their ability to care for children.
However, we're not talking, in this particular case, about reasonable people rationally evaluating children's needs and the adults' fitness to meet them. We're talking about insanity.
I don't know who accounts for most abortions in this Country.
I know she's accountable for 2 willing abortions.
Yet you seem to have no problem with her becoming pregnant by a medical procedure that cost another 2 babies their lives and this one that lives could possible have problems from being born early and small. WHY? because this selfish woman wanted what she destroyed all those years ago.
There is no "normal." What's the old line from "The Shadow"? "Who knows what lurks in the (something something)?" So it's not a decision (what we deem) a rational person would make. No doubt--especially if she has the stamina--adopting would have made more "sense"--especially in the many years that led to this. But I don't see this as "insane." Stupid? Maybe.
There is in my universe, FRiend.
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