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Post by lys on Jul 15, 2009 20:03:51 GMT -5
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Post by charmedlassie on Jul 16, 2009 8:50:56 GMT -5
This is outragous! How selfish can you be? There is a reason you go through the menopause at a certain age! Couldn't she of got a dog?
Those children are going to have to grow up orphans now all because she just HAD to have biological children.
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Post by hockeygrl6 on Jul 16, 2009 12:36:07 GMT -5
That's incredibly selfish, I don't care how anyone tries to explain it away. Like Charmedlassie said, couldn't she have got a dog? Or at least volunteered with children? Her reasoning of possibly living as long as her mother (101 years) is silly. Nobody knows what could happen to them at any time.
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Post by happy2bchildfree on Jul 16, 2009 13:13:20 GMT -5
There is a reason you go through the menopause at a certain age! That is so true. There needs to be much stricter controls on "reproductive technology", especially in regards to age. I'm not going to discount anyone's feelings of wanting a biological child, but sometimes it is just not the appropriate thing to do. Now there are two little kids orphaned because of this woman's selfishness, and the greediness of the doctor who did the procedure to make another buck.
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Post by Doug on Jul 17, 2009 0:51:49 GMT -5
While I do feel bad for those kids (and I truly do) you GOTTA love the dark humor of it all.
'I'm gonna live to be 100 like my momma.'
2 years later, end of story. GONE.
Who told this dumb cow that ANYTHING in life is guaranteed, especially the number of years that one has left on this Earth?
Older parents are just as bad as younger parents, in my opinion. With all the talk of teen pregnancy these days (back on the rise again, oh joy), it's important to remember that adults can be just as irresponsible with respect to reproductive issues.
I don't think high school kids or senior citizens should EVER be allowed to procreate. I wish so badly that we could stop this from happening.
This story illustrates why I feel this way.
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Post by cnu5000 on Jul 17, 2009 6:03:49 GMT -5
I agree with everything said here!! I also am unclear with some fertility treatments cause cancer. In my college magazine, there was one woman who gave birth to her first child and forty-seven then died of cancer at 54-I am finding this is not uncommon. One physician told me that childbirth is even if possible for older women is physicially very difficult.
Also in our society it is very hard to be an orphan at a young age. I know people who have been orphaned at thirty and now this is young in our society.
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Post by happy2bchildfree on Jul 17, 2009 12:14:56 GMT -5
I also am unclear with some fertility treatments cause cancer. In my college magazine, there was one woman who gave birth to her first child and forty-seven then died of cancer at 54-I am finding this is not uncommon. One physician told me that childbirth is even if possible for older women is physicially very difficult. It makes sense to me that all the hormones involved in fertility treatments and pregnancy would cause problems in older women because older bodies were simply not meant to deal with that level of hormones at that age. It also makes sense that childbirth wouldn't even be possible at those ages, again because bodies that age weren't meant to do that. This whole thing of postmenopausal women having babies is just so wrong on so many levels.
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Post by preraph on Jul 17, 2009 15:17:37 GMT -5
I tell you what, if the requirements to have children of your own were half as stringent as they are to adopt, a lot fewer people would have them, and I don't understand why there is such a disparity there since there are so many kids needing a home. But I mean, adoption requires that you have a separate room for each child and that all childcare be certified childcare, which limits what you can find and greatly increases the costs. You really do have to kind of have quite a bit of money to do it. They should give incentives for people willing to adopt older kids. I just feel so bad for those kids. The system keeps them until they're 18 and then they often end up just on the street with no support at all.
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Post by lys on Jul 22, 2009 22:25:46 GMT -5
I can never understand the "need" to give birth. I heard it hurts! Honestly if people want to be a parent, why dont they adopt?
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Post by pyrosgal on Jul 26, 2009 21:02:07 GMT -5
I can never understand the "need" to give birth. I heard it hurts! Honestly if people want to be a parent, why dont they adopt? I'm right there with you. I should get a tattoo on my pubic mound that says "entrance only." There are so many older kids that would probably benefit from an adoption arrangement, but yet all the prospective adoptive parents want baybees. And even then, at least the baybees would be fed, at lesser expense to us.
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Post by preraph on Jul 26, 2009 21:23:41 GMT -5
No exito. Love it.
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Post by happy2bchildfree on Jul 26, 2009 21:53:40 GMT -5
I can never understand the "need" to give birth. I heard it hurts! Honestly if people want to be a parent, why dont they adopt? I don't understand the need to have a biological child, but I am not going to minimize or discount the feelings of those who feel that need. We all have a right to our feelings. We as childfrees have all had our feelings about not wanting children invalidated, discounted and judged as "wrong". We don't like it or appreciate it. It works both ways, yanno?
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Post by fallansparrow on Oct 24, 2009 14:57:37 GMT -5
I'm right there with you. I should get a tattoo on my pubic mound that says "entrance only." There are so many older kids that would probably benefit from an adoption arrangement, but yet all the prospective adoptive parents want baybees. And even then, at least the baybees would be fed, at lesser expense to us. LOL! Tattoos on the pubic mound hurt really bad.
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Post by preraph on Oct 24, 2009 15:31:08 GMT -5
Yeowch.
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