You certainly are defensive about this subject. Are you a Fredbot or have you robbed the cradle yourself?
My post you are responding to wasn’t attacking anyone - I was stating what is generally thought by some/most people. I said nothing that would make you or GS jump into attack mode - unless you are already defensive on the subject for some reason.
I was critical of Thompson in another post - that you didn’t respond to. But not this one. And only about his decision to have kids at an older age. And it wouldn’t matter if he had them with a young wife or old wife. I think having kids very, very late in life is usually not done for the benefit of or with thoughts of the children. This is another issue he will be judged on if he is the candidate. In comparison, his family life may make Hillary’s look pretty stable - and that would not be good.
However, I have experience with both Mormons and with people in long term relationships where there is a similar age difference. There is some truth to the negative, knee jerk reactions that I see people have regarding these two situations. And, while those reactions are especially expected in politics, they are very contrary to my own experiences, thus my own knee jerk, defensive reaction.
Regarding older men having children? There are good and bad sides for both older and younger men having children. In defense of older men, in my own experience, I've seen older men with more experience, maturity, wisdom, patience and financial resources than younger men, all of which are helpful raising kids and maintaining a happy, stable home. The men I'm thinking of were/are devoted to their families, having outgrown their earlier partying days and the wandering eyes they might have had in their youth.
In the cases I've seen where this was the man's second family, they tended to avoid the mistakes they made the first time around. Often, too, because of their financial resources, these men didn't need to work excessive hours and had the time to spend with their families and were more involved with raising their kid(s).
I am generalizing, but these are my own experiences. Personally, I would take a quality childhood and teenage years with an older father over growing up with a single mom. Assuming FDT is not a lecherous old man thinking with his groin and Jeri Thompson isn't some gold digger seeking to elevate her social status and bank account, it is possible that they truly are a loving, happy couple and good and decent parents. If that's true, then their being in the White House will give those with negative knee jerk reactions some experience with the perspective that I have.