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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Wow, you managed to diagnose Alzheimers from this article? Are you House? 
Seriously, there's no reason to think that they will have health problems from the article above. She was clearly healthy enough to carry twins to term, which actually means quite a lot.
So people should not have children if they aren't in perfect health? My mom has a slight heart murmer, so does that mean that my brother and I shouldn't exist? My wife's cousin has an aggressive form of MS and is confined to a wheelchair, but they have 3 kids under 8 - are they selfish?
Why is it ok for her to have a child at 54 but not at 60? What's the magic cut off age? I was 35 when my son was born - does that make me selfish since I'll be over 50 when he gets out of high school? |
The article doesn't state whether the 6 year old was an IVF, but I'd reckon he is.
If your cousin, despite her illness, was otherwise capable of conceiving and carrying her kids, of course not. But there's a couple of issues here that are turn-offs: first being that these kids were conceived after menopause and not of their own doing. Menopause carries its own risks-some include the deterioration of bone mass, which can be exasperated by pregnancy, changes to the reproductive organs, making the uterus thinner, changes in the circulatory system and slowing down of metabolism.
I had my twins at 37 1/2 and was very high-risk, being in bed 2/3 of the term, but I had mine at full term; judging by the weights of her babies, she did not and probably would not have been able to.
The other issue is, of course, the actual age of this couple. No one is guaranteed a long full healthy life but they're closer to not being here longer than you or I; is it fair to think that you'd raise them, hopefully, to adulthood before dying? The Alzheimer's suggestion is not out of the realms of possibilities for someone in their 60's, nor is a myriad of other problems, ie; my father has been in pretty good health most of his life, then hit 75 and all hell broke loose. He's still relatively in decent shape, but he's old. Who really thinks about that, though? Just as those kids are going through adolescence, these people will be(maybe, in all probability) taking insulin pills, high blood pressure meds, etc.