Sunday, February 14, 2010

Children Over 50 or 60: A Way Forward

Afnan Khadawurdi

Nowadays a lot of people think that everything can happen by using technology such as some old women can have babies by using fertilization techniques, but like everything some people are for this technology and others are against.

The first point in favour of women being allowed to have children when they are in their fifties or sixties is that some women when they were young might not have had time for children because they were businesswomen or something like that, or because now they have a huge experience from their lives. Also some women think their life will be more funny and exciting if they have a new baby especially when their kids became big enough and autonomous. I read in one article there was a family that had three children, all of whom went overseas to work or study. So the parents decided to have another child and they did that and they were very happy. Accordingly some people believe that they should be allowed to have children at this age.

On the other hand some people think that this is very difficult for the mother and the baby. Firstly if the mother gets pregnant when she is 50 or 60 she might lose her life because the delivery in her age is so hard also, if she lived after that would the baby live with her mother just for a short time? I knew one woman who is my mother’s cousin and she got pregnant when she was around fifty however she was a grandmother and had grandchildren and the doctor told her she had to give up the baby because she could lose her life or the baby, but she determined to keep him and when she was to deliver she suffered for three days. Then finally she received a surgery to help her and her baby. Secondly the age between the mother and her baby would be very big and I think they would not be able to understand each other because there are several generations between them. The mother will become older and won’t be able to give her baby care, because she needs special care.

In conclusion, I think women shouldn’t have babies after the age of 50 or 60 because as I said she might be suffering some problems or her baby might.

I recommend if such a woman wants a baby she could adopt a baby. May be this can reduce some problems that could happen in the future.

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