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What are your thoughts on Mick Jagger becoming a father for the eighth time at 72?
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I think it's ok.
I thought about it when I seen the papers this morning.
There are so many absent parents leaving one to bring up the children on their own with no support. This child will never witness his mother counting pennies out of the change jar.
I had a lovely father...but I also have lovely uncles who played a big male part in my life...and still do.
I thought about it when I seen the papers this morning.
There are so many absent parents leaving one to bring up the children on their own with no support. This child will never witness his mother counting pennies out of the change jar.
I had a lovely father...but I also have lovely uncles who played a big male part in my life...and still do.
I think older parents are selfish.
Nature provides a cut-off point for child-bearing for a reason - the ability of parents to effectively rear a child in later life, apart from actually being around to finish the job!
With his fortune, Mr Jagger will be able to provide the material comforts for his new baby, but not the comfort for the child's loss of his or her dad which is going to occur often than it should in his or her young life.
Nature provides a cut-off point for child-bearing for a reason - the ability of parents to effectively rear a child in later life, apart from actually being around to finish the job!
With his fortune, Mr Jagger will be able to provide the material comforts for his new baby, but not the comfort for the child's loss of his or her dad which is going to occur often than it should in his or her young life.
ivor - // ... a woman I worked with in the 80's got called "selfish" because her and her husband did not want children, //
I really can't understand the thinking behind anyone who would presume to pronounce out loud on anyone else's choice to have children or not.
I am happy to comment on here, because the debate has been raised, and Mr Jagger is a public figure, and speculation and opinion will occur.
But that is a long way from informing someone else within earshot that you disagree with a very personal and private decision which belongs to them alone.
I really can't understand the thinking behind anyone who would presume to pronounce out loud on anyone else's choice to have children or not.
I am happy to comment on here, because the debate has been raised, and Mr Jagger is a public figure, and speculation and opinion will occur.
But that is a long way from informing someone else within earshot that you disagree with a very personal and private decision which belongs to them alone.
Ken4155 - //His wife is only 29, should she be denied the right to have children because he is 72? //
I would never want to deny any woman or man or couple the chance to have children.
That said, the issue of age is something that has to be considered.
I am sixty-one, my wife is sixty.
If she were to die, and I entered a relationship with a woman of child-bearing age, then the prospect of children would have to be considered well in advance of any discussion about a long-term future for us as a couple - and that is something that any younger woman must consider when she embarks on a relationship with an older man.
I would never want to deny any woman or man or couple the chance to have children.
That said, the issue of age is something that has to be considered.
I am sixty-one, my wife is sixty.
If she were to die, and I entered a relationship with a woman of child-bearing age, then the prospect of children would have to be considered well in advance of any discussion about a long-term future for us as a couple - and that is something that any younger woman must consider when she embarks on a relationship with an older man.
