A few days ago the magazine "New York Magazine" published an article entitled "Too old for this?"In which he published the story of Ann Maloney, a woman who had her two daughters at 50 and 53 respectively.
The intention of the article is to show the world what are the experiences of this family and what are the criticisms and prejudices they usually face.
Ann Maloney met her current partner, John Ross, when he was 54 and she was 47. The first time they had sex he told her that she had the body of a girl, ready to have a child.
She, who had not had children for a previous marriage that had failed and for leading a busy life, decided that now she would be a mother. He had to fight like no other to be able to do it for a matter of physical age and especially before its surroundings, for the same reason, age.
The magazine article shows data of the children of elderly parents and it is observed that they are healthy and happy, as much or more than those of young parents. It is also explained that one of the hardest criticisms against older mothers is that the image of a 60-year-old woman breastfeeding a baby is not aesthetic.
However, not all the debate centers on how pretty or ugly a baby can be left with a mother or father with gray hair, but the shots also go for the economic issue. Fighting against nature is not cheap, nothing cheap. This means that people who do have economic means that the majority of the American population does not have and, therefore, to see a woman of more than 50 years paying hundreds of thousands of dollars because she has decided to be a mother is seen as an unfair frivolity.
I personally do not know very well what to think about it. That her daughters are happy I have no doubt. If there is love involved, there is no reason for the parents' age to generate unhappiness. However, I am one of those who think that if nature limits a woman's fertility until a certain age it will be for something, and I would not fight her to have children when my body is no longer capable of it.
I do not mean by this to say that everything that nature brings is good or positive. Not even that we do not have to fight against it (if I said this it would be an irresponsible fool), but in things like this, because you want me to tell you, I would rather be playing with my grandchildren than taking care of my children.
