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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dad had me when he was 43.

He's 79 now, and Im in my mid-30s and his health is declining rapidly.

Makes me sad we wont be around to see my DC grow up.  I still want another and it pains me to think he may never meet him/her!!

So, I speak from a sad daughter here.  ;-/ [/quote]

Yes, but if your choice was to have your life the way it played out or never to have been born, which would you have chosen?  Would you rather they had chosen not to have you?

I was 46 when my twins were born and am 49 now.  I'm in better shape than a lot of my friends and the parents of my children's friends, even though some of them are 15 years younger.

My parents immigrated to America and met in the US.  Three of my grandparents were killed by the Communist revolution in China.  The fourth was severely crippled.  Of 6 grandchildren in Taiwan and three of us in the US, I'm the only one of the 9 grandchildren born out of mainland China who met my remaining grandmother.  She knew the 5 grandchildren born in mainland China.  She was 89 and paralyzed from the neck down when I met her at the age of 13.  It was the first time she had seen my mother in 40 years and she died six months after our visit.  So I really didn't know my grandparents.  While it was sad, I would much rather have been  born and had my older parents than  to have not been born at all.  And I would still rather have had the life I have lived, including not knowing my grandparents. that not to have been born at all.

So, while it may be nicer to have younger parents than older parents, it is better to have older parents than not to have been conceived at all.[/quote]

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