I heard about that case. I believe that woman was from India, and was terrified of disgracing her family by not giving birth to a male heir. As a last resort, she became pregnant, and had twins (girl/boy).

I honestly don't really have an oppinion in the matter... I really don't see a problem either way. Perhaps the health of mother and child is at risk... but pregnancy/birth has always been a sorta risky thing anyways.

Oh wow. I saw that show too. Honestly, I think "too old" is when a woman won't be around to see her grandchildren.

The people that were having the child in that television show would be dead before their child's eighteenth birthday. -THAT- is just not right.

I'm gonna start by saying I didn't read the replies so if someone pointed these out, I apologize.

Honestly, that sounds pretty hazardous. I don't know much about pregnancy so I can't go into detail,but I know having it when you're later has health risks for you and the baby.
Also, what about the child when you die or the fun you have with your parents? I know I loved playing with m mom all the time when I was younger. What if you developed a disease that is frequent in old age or you died before they were 18?
I don't know, it just doesn't seem good to me. I'm sure there are some people that can do it, but meh.

oh dear god ._.

Their are advantages and disadvantages to being an older parent. There are some older people who are more capable then some younger people. That said, I think each case should be taken individually. Every older mother should be accessed to check if they can handle it ( well, wouldn't be such a bad idea for younger mothers too).

To answer the issue of death; in a class I took a young mother had a stroke. Her ability to care for her baby was compared and I never followed up on the final outcome. For all I know she ended up disabled and unable to care for her baby.
In case of death their children are taken care of the same way as a younger parent's children would be.

I know a grandmother who has raised two grand children now alone. What diffierence would it really have made if these two children were her biological children instead of grand children?. She had some hardships, but she did it.
And if someone is going to judge her for that, then they need to fair and deny other parents with hardships from having children.

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People who cant get preageant i feel bad for but people who get pregeant at 70 is way to old to get pregeant

Well, people are most fertile at their youngest around puberty, and it decays and men and women become less and less fertile as time passes on. Even if at 70 if that woman does get pregnant, the baby would most likely have some kind of birth defect if it lived at all in the 9 months it took to grow.

I know I'm being morbid here, but after around 40, the chances of a woman having a baby with some kind of birth defect like downs syndrome turn from 1 in 1,000-ish to about 1 in 4. The health concerns around the actual pregnant woman herself could be looked at as well. Would her 70-year-old body even be able to support the weight of another small human being for those last months? Would her body be able to handle the morning sickness? Pains?

Also, would she be able to care for the child at all? If she has a steady (large) income, she might be able to take care of it, but if she plans to live to 110, which is the only way she'll be able to see her child grow up, she'd also have the concerns of taking care of herself, let alone a baby. (Heaven forbid but) What if she has some kind of heart attack or stroke and she lives alone and nobody is there to watch the child while she's on the floor?

So, my opinion is a strict yes. 70 is far to old to have children.

I'm the child of an older woman's pregnancy. She was 'old' for the times, anyway, at 44. And I LOVE my mum. I really do. But I would never do what she did unless I was willing to work for another twenty years full time.

I think a lot of women forget the burden they're placing on the child.

For me, now that my mum and dad are nearly 69 going on 70 now, I'm at 25 suddenly faced with some really nasty prospects. What if she dies? How can I afford her funeral when I'm studying full time and will be for some years still? What if she starts to need full time care? She's already getting sicker and needing a lot more help. How can I help her with the house repairs, when, again, I'm a student and living off noodles? I can't support her yet. She's on a pension and can't be of any support to me.

Then there's the worry that she and my future children may never meet. I was seriously thinking as a teenager that it was better to get pregnant early, just so they could meet their grandmother. I never got to meet my grandmother- she died before I was born- and I want my future children to meet my mother.

This woman at 70 forgets... she may be reasonably fine now, as is my mum, but in 10 years she may not be. She'll have a 9-year-old child who depends on her. Twenty years time, her child will still need support of some kind, and will she be able to be there then? What about funding the child? Can she be sure that she can pay for everything that child needs?

There's always cases where it can be okay... and maybe these older parents should be allowed to adopt older children, as they require immediate support and there's not many out there who care about older children waiting for adoption. Or Foster care. If they use the 'too stressful' excuse, trust me... stressing about your child's future is not easy at any age.