Anderson Cooper is a dad!

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Anonymous wrote:It’s so biologically unfair that men can have kids at any age they want, and women have to base their entire youths around trying to have them all by age 30 something.

Not if you use a surrogate, like he did.

This. Naomi Campbell just had a child via surrogate. She and Anderson are two years apart.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the negativity in this thread makes me sad. My best friend and his husband are about to become parents via surrogate. They are amazing people and will be wonderful parents. I hate that this baby, who is deeply wanted and loved already, is going to face crappy people like some of you.

I'm sorry you feel that way. But doesnt it give you some pause? This is a happy version of handmaid tale where women are paid to be an egg and uterus. Babies need mothers and you are creating babies without their mothers!

Dont compare situations where mom has died or is a crappy mother.

No, it doesn't give me any pause. These women are not coerced into being donors and surrogates - my friend's egg donor is a friend who offered, and the surrogate is a happy mother and wife who loves being pregnant and feels what she does is important.

Babies need loving parents, not mothers.

Sorry babies and children need mothers. Especially since that is how one is born!

In an ideal world, they would all have fathers too. But many grow up with only one loving parent and excel.

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Anonymous wrote:I find something sad about infants being taken away from their birth mother and then being raised by a single man. Maybe I’m just hormonal but infants need that warm, female, maternal energy that you can only get from women or birth mom. I’m not saying men aren’t capable but I notice a difference in the way my own children react to male relatives as opposed to female.

it is different, but not worse. Love is what they need. Not a female body.

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Anonymous wrote:Probably something in his mom’s estate that gives a massive haul to and/or if there’s a grandkid.

OMG, are you even transactional in your family dealings? Most of us are not, trust me.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s so biologically unfair that men can have kids at any age they want, and women have to base their entire youths around trying to have them all by age 30 something.

Not if you use a surrogate, like he did.

This. Naomi Campbell just had a child via surrogate. She and Anderson are two years apart.

I did not know this. I am happy for her!

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Anonymous wrote:He was on Howard Stern yesterday and said he hired Andy Cohen's nanny full-time and she takes care of the baby all day and she wakes up for the baby at night. It basically sounds like the kid is an accessory for him to brag about. Creepy.

No way. He's living the dream! I would totally do that if I had the $$ and was a single parent.

All the rich people do this, not just single parents. Wake up.

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Anderson Cooper has a second boy!

https://people.com/parents/anderson-cooper-announces-birth-of-his-second-baby/?amp=true

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Anonymous wrote:I wish he was married. This “ we are raising together as friends worth the ex” this seems like a bad idea. Someone is going to meet someone and there will be drama. He also said he has no living family. Again not ideal.

This must be hard. Emotionally sucks. Hugs Anderson, wherever you are.

weird he said that as he has a living brother who got screwed out of inheritance.

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First of all he’s 54! I know you all are going to say “oh eh has lots of money and any of us could die at any time” but still this whole AARP parenting trend is concerning. I’m also getting really uncomfortable with rich people renting the bodies of women to produce children for them. It is all very freaking dystopian. I mean literally you can now order a human the same way you order a purebred dog and just pick it up when it is done.

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Anonymous wrote:I wish he was married. This “ we are raising together as friends worth the ex” this seems like a bad idea. Someone is going to meet someone and there will be drama. He also said he has no living family. Again not ideal.

This must be hard. Emotionally sucks. Hugs Anderson, wherever you are.

weird he said that as he has a living brother who got screwed out of inheritance.

He has half-brothers on his mother’s side. I believe that they are significantly older and, so, did not grow up together.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all he’s 54! I know you all are going to say “oh eh has lots of money and any of us could die at any time” but still this whole AARP parenting trend is concerning. I’m also getting really uncomfortable with rich people renting the bodies of women to produce children for them. It is all very freaking dystopian. I mean literally you can now order a human the same way you order a purebred dog and just pick it up when it is done.

+1 if you want kids, have them by 40.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all he’s 54! I know you all are going to say “oh eh has lots of money and any of us could die at any time” but still this whole AARP parenting trend is concerning. I’m also getting really uncomfortable with rich people renting the bodies of women to produce children for them. It is all very freaking dystopian. I mean literally you can now order a human the same way you order a purebred dog and just pick it up when it is done.

+1 if you want kids, have them by 40.

If it is the only way low-skilled women can earn that kind of money, and they enter into the agreement willingly, I have no problem with it. Weird to me that mature women are criticized so much more for using surrogate than men are though. Especially since women typically live longer.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all he’s 54! I know you all are going to say “oh eh has lots of money and any of us could die at any time” but still this whole AARP parenting trend is concerning. I’m also getting really uncomfortable with rich people renting the bodies of women to produce children for them. It is all very freaking dystopian. I mean literally you can now order a human the same way you order a purebred dog and just pick it up when it is done.

+1 if you want kids, have them by 40.

If it is the only way low-skilled women can earn that kind of money, and they enter into the agreement willingly, I have no problem with it. Weird to me that mature women are criticized so much more for using surrogate than men are though. Especially since women typically live longer.

You have to think of the child who is going to be 10 and his dad 64, if he even lives that long.

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Anonymous wrote:First of all he’s 54! I know you all are going to say “oh eh has lots of money and any of us could die at any time” but still this whole AARP parenting trend is concerning. I’m also getting really uncomfortable with rich people renting the bodies of women to produce children for them. It is all very freaking dystopian. I mean literally you can now order a human the same way you order a purebred dog and just pick it up when it is done.

Yes, my views on surrogacy have changed a lot in the past few years as I've learned more about the exploitation and coercion in the industry, and the overall ethical, emotional, and health issues inherent in surrogacy. Before I hadn't given much thought to it- just considered it another way for people who'd faced fertility challenges or were unable to conceive together to build a family. Now that I have learned more, I find it deeply heartbreaking.

To learn more, there is the work of Jennifer Lahl, who does a lot of research, interviews, and has made films. Here are short video clips from a movie she made on surrogacy: http://www.cbc-network.org/breeders-main/

And here is a three-part podcast series on surrogacy, including one episode with a surrogate mother:
1. "To Buy a Baby, You Must First Rent a Woman" with MaryLou Singleton: Surrogacy Series Part 1 of 3
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/to-buy-a-baby-you-must-first-rent-a-woman/id1231912533?i=1000465605381

2. Pain For The Childless Mother: Briana's Story of Surrogacy Part 2 of 3
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pain-for-the-childless-mother-brianas-story-of/id1231912533?i=1000466293377

3. "Consent Can Not Be Purchased" with Yolande Norris-Clark (Part 3 of 3 Surrogacy Series)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/consent-can-not-be-purchased-with-yolande-norris-clark/id1231912533?i=1000466985474

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Anonymous wrote:First of all he’s 54! I know you all are going to say “oh eh has lots of money and any of us could die at any time” but still this whole AARP parenting trend is concerning. I’m also getting really uncomfortable with rich people renting the bodies of women to produce children for them. It is all very freaking dystopian. I mean literally you can now order a human the same way you order a purebred dog and just pick it up when it is done.

+1 if you want kids, have them by 40.

As someone with a parent over 40 when I was born, this is a ridiculous and arbitrary standard and I’m very glad no one told my parents or they chose not to listen.