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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I shared this thread with my husband to get his opinions.  His father was 40 when husband was born and  died when husband was only 32.  He misses his dad tremendously and would love it if he were still around.  Your kids don’t care if you “traveled, and really got well established in your career” before you decided to have them.  They would prefer that you be alive.

The “old parent” movement is just wrong. You people spend thousands and thousands on fertility treatments, drop the kids at daycare, pat yourself on the back for “having it all”, then drop dead when your kids are in their 20s.

Rant over. [/quote]

No, you've drawn the wrong conclusion.  If you're going to make a terrible inference, you should say that anyone whose parents died young should not have children.  My parents are alive and well at 86 and 92 (my father will be 93 in 3 weeks).  I had children late and am in great health.  I'm 53 with 7 year old twins and I do more with my kids than many of my peers who are 15-20 years younger than me.  I go roller-skating with my kids, play at the parks and take them plenty of places.  We have much more disposable income than many of the parents we know in their 30's, so we can go to fun places and we can make better choices for our kids because money is as much of an impediment as it is for younger peers.

Many of the people I've known who died young also had parents who died young.  I knew a guy who was a healthy guy.  He was a former marine, still in great shape.  He died of a heart attack at age 50.  Surprising until we found out his father died of a heart attack at 45.  [/quote]

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