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Monday, May 18, 2009

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Hot Topics: 66-year-old to become Britain's oldest mother; Farrah Fawcell's tv special


Posted at 5/18/2009 11:00:00 AM
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16 comments:

  1. Anonymous5/18/09, 1:23 PM

    Joy you can't compare a girl who gets pregnant at fifteen (most likely an unintended pregnancy) with a woman who has gone out of her way and undergone years of IVF to get pregnant! My issues with the above situation are 1) The health implications for the woman giving birth 2) The health implications for the child 3) The fact that the woman will be most probably dead by the time the child is twenty!

    If the woman was so desparate for a child over the years she should've adopted one, lots of babies are in need of a home!

    Having said all of that, the woman is entitled to do what she wants with her body, I just don't think it's advisable what she is doing!

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  2. chrissy5/18/09, 1:28 PM

    remember the famous Maude episode about abortion? where she decided she was too old to have a baby and shocked everyone by deciding on an abortion? amazing how times change

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  3. Anonymous5/18/09, 1:53 PM

    if the person can afford the child, and have plans to take care of the kid, then who are we to stop her? if she is a crackhead with no income and kids, then there's a problem

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  4. Bry Guy!5/18/09, 2:25 PM

    I gotta say, I absolutely agree with Sherri in this segment, 100%.

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  5. Anonymous5/18/09, 2:36 PM

    I completely agree with Sherri,too. I also think it's completely incomprable to teenage pregnacy!

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  6. Anonymous5/18/09, 2:43 PM

    Whoopi is getting annoying. She keeps saying, "Trust me, trust me, I know what it's like." She acts like SHE HAS DONE EVERYTHING!!!!!! I am not saying that she hasn't had a rough and tribulation filled life, but SHE HAS NOT DONE EVERYTHING and she needs to stop acting like a wise ass all the time.

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  7. Anonymous5/18/09, 2:47 PM

    I think it's interesting that people get outraged when a woman who is in her mid-60's has a child but when people like Donald Trump or Tony Randall or Larry King have children, they are congratulated and cheered. This outrage is sexist because it's presumed that only women will take care of the child.

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  8. Anonymous5/18/09, 3:26 PM

    Sherri's right (for once). It's irresponsible to have a child at 66 because chances are she'll die before the child is out of its teens. No child should have to experience the death of their mother before they reach adulthood.

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  9. Unknown5/18/09, 3:37 PM

    Frick Elisabeth is argumentive. She has to contradict EVERYTHING joy says. She argues here that a 15 yr old can be "wise" and can be mature enough to be a mother. Fine, there may be some who can, but for the sake of the friggin hypothetical THEY AREN'T.

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  10. Victoria5/18/09, 3:45 PM

    Okay first, a woman MUST have her baby. No if's and's or but's about it! But when she does have a baby, she can't have one at 66. She's a freakin' ADULT woman! Now there's an age range that an adult can't have a baby?! I say as long as there are no major health risks at stake for this particular woman, go forth!

    And I can't believe Sherri would undermine an older woman's ability to take care of a child for however long. Just because a woman is in her 20's or 30's doesn't mean she would automatically make the best mother.

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  11. Anonymous5/18/09, 4:28 PM

    Sherri is right like always

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  12. Anonymous5/18/09, 7:30 PM

    If the woman sets up a college fund immediately for the child and contributes over and beyond the minimum that one should, then I will agree with her having it. It's inadvisable for medical complications, unless the MD/DO states otherwise, but if she responds with the idea that she may not be alive when the child reaches 18, I am all for it.

    And Jessica, stop being so opinionated. Sit back, relax and get some hobbies. No need to be so negative.

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  13. Anonymous5/19/09, 12:24 AM

    in a way no matter how old yu are wen yu hav a baby theres no guarentee yur gna survive till it comes an adult yu dnt no wt could happen tomorrow! but wt i was annoyed about is tha she has got a live in nanny to help her presumably so she can go bak to work.. in my opinion if yur gna go out of yur way to hav a kid in retirement age at least take care of it yurself!!

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  14. Anonymous5/19/09, 2:04 AM

    just because the mother might be young doesn't mean she can't die at a young age...honestly, most parents take care of their children till 18 then sends them off to college, so i don't understand what's the big deal is. besides, she odnt have to work, and she have more dedicated time, plus the help from nanny, to give the child undivided attention.

    and like prev poster mention, aged men like larry king, etc have kids at old age, and since they have younger wives, no one paid attention to that. so, does it mean, if they die, father figure don't count? besides, doesn't thelady have any preexisting children of her own prior to the pregnancy? im sure they too can take can care of the kid if something happened to her?

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  15. Anonymous5/19/09, 6:00 AM

    I think it's more accepted for men because biologically a man can be any age and father a child, but a mother must be younger. This means that there will be at least one younger parent. Biologically it can't happen that a n older, Larry-King aged woman could mother a child with a younger man. So the other way round just hasn't been much of an issue.

    Of cours ethis is all changing with IVF and cases like this! It's a very strange time. Also, this woman is raising the baby as a single parent - I'm sure if a 66 year old single man wanted to adopt a baby people wouldn't be 100% keen.

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  16. Unknown5/29/09, 10:56 PM

    I love how they exaggerate the number of babies the Octo-mum had. HAHAHAHAHHAHA

    Sherri had some valid points about a 66yo having a baby.

    Selling people's medical records is outrageous.

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