Expecting in your 60s
Another 60-something is expecting a baby and, no, it’s not Mick Jagger or Rod Stewart. Patricia Rashbrook, a 63 year old child psychologist, is seven months pregnant.
I wonder what makes 60 year old women decide that it’s a good time to have a baby. Is it an attempt to regain their youth? Shouldn’t they be preparing to be grandparents, which can be a full time experience (just ask my Mom)?
I don’t know why it disturbs me so much. True, it made me a bit squeamish when Larry King became a father. But, generally speaking, older men becoming parents just doesn’t have the same effect. Is it because we KNOW it’s unnatural? I mean, men can continue to father children naturally for much of their lives, but God has given women a timer, and when your time is up, shouldn’t it be UP?
