Should the 66 year old pregnant mom have to give her baby up for adoption?
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Since we say teens are to young to parent should we vote that a 66 year old is to old to parent.
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Since we say teens are to young to parent should we vote that a 66 year old is to old to parent.
I personally don’t believe either of the above. Teens and seniors should both be allowed to raise their children.
July 16th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
No. We do not FORCE people to give up their children.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:19 am
No she should not have too..everyone has a right to have children..that would be sick to take a baby away from its mother…just cause of her age….
July 19th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
no she will be able to provide teens cant they expect there parents to help she may live till 90
July 20th, 2009 at 11:51 am
If she can look after it than theres nothing wrong
July 20th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
No, as long as she will do the best for her child, and that goes for any age, she should be able to keep her child.
July 21st, 2009 at 3:27 am
nopee.
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July 23rd, 2009 at 5:20 am
No way! Hopefully she will live long enough to at least see the baby grow up and to take care of it.
I don’t think though that it was responsible of her to fall pregnant at that age, has she any other children? I think that if she has been trying for years, had IVF and it was finally sucessful then good luck to her.
July 24th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Honestly, I know a lot of 66 year olds who raise young children - they are called grandparents. I have one next door to me. She is more responsible than the children’s mother, and therefore takes better care of them.
The difference between the 66 year old and the 13 year olds is maturity and understanding of life. The woman in question has a very stable mindset and knows what she wants going into having a baby, most 13/ 14 year olds are scared and confused - and don’t handle the situation well. These are two completely different scenarios, although, I agree, teens should be given the option of caring for their children - but they need to be held to just as high of standards as we hold other parents too, as does a 66 year old.
July 27th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
NO, It’s her baby.
July 28th, 2009 at 10:13 am
I don’t think that we should force a 66 year old woman to give up her child for adoption just because of her age. That’s like saying that we shouldn’t let a 12 year old girl to keep her child just because she seems to young.
This woman will be able to provide for her child maybe more so than a younger woman would be able to.
July 28th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
No, the reason some teen mothers give up their children to adoption is because they aren’t ready for a child but don’t want an abortion or they want to experience a child free life for the time being. There are also cases where the family is “ashamed” and so choose for the girl who is their child and so they can get away with giving them advice on what to do.
Neither of those reasons is relevant to a 66 year old woman. If she wanted to give it up she could, but certainly no-one would make her.
July 30th, 2009 at 8:30 am
I think that we shouldn’t have doctors messing with mother nature to allow her to be pregnant in the first place.
I do think that at 66, she needs to have a very active in the child’s life person to be there for that child in the event something does happen to her.
I’m a mom of a toddler at 43, through adoption, and although I’m quite able, happy to do so, and loving every minute of it, it’s harder at 43 than it was at 23. I can’t imagine being 66 and giving birth. She could be the child’s great-grandmother.
I also think that teens should be on birth control to stop pregnancies if they’re going to be sexually active. Parents need to stop and realize that with or without their blessings, that sex will happen. People of all ages should have the common sense to bear children when they are mentally, physically, emotionally, and financially capable of having children.
August 1st, 2009 at 9:51 pm
A 66 year old who gives birth did not do it with her own egg. This mother used assisted reproduction methods, most likely, a donor ovum.
The chances of her living to raise this child to adulthood are 50/50…maybe. And what about the father? Who is he and how old is he? Does the child have relatives who will step up if and when these parents die?
The chances of a teenager who gives birth living to raise the child to adulthood are far far better. And teenagers have relatives around them who are connected to the child..not contracted through a donor.
August 5th, 2009 at 4:28 am
not sure.
but…the quack who knocked up grandma, should be reported to the medical ethics board, along with the one who knocked up the octomom.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
then why ask?
August 7th, 2009 at 11:59 am
People who are incompetent parents (to the extent that their children are in actual danger) should be forced to give up their children. Otherwise it’s none of the State’s business whether the parent is 13, 66 or 125. (A 66 year old woman will probably be a better mother, in many respects, than a 15 year old, or even a 25 year old - nothing personal intended.)
(Of course, why a 13 year old is pregnant may be the State’s business, but once that’s cleared up, whether she should keep the baby or not isn’t, unless the baby is at risk.)
August 9th, 2009 at 8:53 am
No one should ever have to give up their child. A lot of grandparents raise their grandkids and we don’t object to that.
August 10th, 2009 at 9:10 am
66 year old women can not get pregnant. That’s about the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. The examples you use to try to prove a point in your posts usually show the intelligence and debate skills of a middle schooler! Get an education!
August 10th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
Good point - why do we always jump on moms who are “too young” but applaud moms who are too old?
August 12th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
lol you have really been using some asinine examples in your crusade against adoption. look, the odds are against teenage, uneducated, single mothers. that is the cold hard truth. I want you to walk through an impoverished Section 8 dominated neighborhood and count the number of single teenage or young mothers. then I want you to check on their children fifteen years down the line. Odds are that they are A young poor single parents themselves or B in jail. Young single parenthood is a cycle and something that we should try to break, not encourage.
August 13th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Of course not but I really don’t think anyone that age should be having a child at least not an infant. I can not imagine being a teenager and having your mother be in her 80’s. Sure this lady health may be doing alright she may even feel like a young 66 year old but who knows how she will feel in 10 or 15 years. Its quite selfish imo to have a baby at this age. If she wanted to be a mother late in life she should have adopted an older child or teenager from the foster care system.