Vesta, does this sound good? What part of Mother Nature said NO diden't these people understand?
Though Mother Nature said NO.....science says YES.
Vesta's right...these women
wanted children for 50+ years....and most men above the age of 55
are given a
for getting their sweet young thing pregnant.
That's a rather blatant double standard, don't you think?
People thought "WOW, the old guy's still got it!" when Tony Randall, Larry King, Hugh Hefner had kids when they were in their 70's. Obviously Tony Randall didn't see his kids grow up, neither will Larry King....Hugh Hefner - who knows
.
I have more of an issue with the fact that this was done in India to women that were
"poverty-stricken"!!
This was further down in the article....
Mrs Devi's delighted husband Deva Singh, 64, brushed aside potential risks, saying: 'She has fulfilled my dream of having a child and gave my family an heir.
'She was my first wife and after she failed to conceive a child, I married twice but again I did not have any child from my other wives. I am very happy and I will provide all the best facilities to my children in the coming years.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1286412/Worlds-oldest-mother-Rajo-Devi-Lohan-reveals-dying.html#ixzz0qw3kC8K4
This raises the question...to me, at least.....perhaps the husband was sterile. In a male driven society, as India is, I bet it was real easy to convince the husband to try an "experiment" on his
barren wife. He would be a father...raising his self esteem and getting
's from his similarly aged buddies.
What better a
specimen to experiment with - to determine just how old can that womb be to function?...than an old poverty-stricken woman that everyone will point fingers at the woman for being so callous to have a child at her age....who cares if she dies?
The doctors' were doing her a favor out of the kindness of their hearts...she was so desperate to have a child...
I know women who have never been able to bear a child. Younger than me...older than me. Would they have done almost anything to have a child? Yes. Would they do it in their late 60's? Highly doubtful.
A woman who desperately wants a child...
wants that child to be
with that child, watch it grow, thrive, and have a wonderful life....just as a majority of us mothers do. We can't control what life throws at us - life-threatening illness, accidents that result in death....but I don't think there are too many women who "desperately" want a child, do it just for the experience of giving birth, in their late 60's only to shorten their own life and leave that child without a mother.
A woman wants a child to be a mother. The fact that we have to be
pregant to have that child is a detail that most of us just tolerate out of necessity to get to the end result of having a child...not just for the joy of being pregnant all by itself. After finding out what being pregnant was like, for the second one, if I could have cloned myself and let the clone be pregnant instead of me, I would have done it in a heartbeat.
Sadly, in all of this....is a little child, three in the case of the other mother....who will grow up most likely with no parents. Hopefully there are extended families in place who will care for the children as if they were their own.