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> He became a dad at 51. In both the stories about men having children or dating later in life the age of the woman wasn't included for some reason.
by willcipriano 3y ago
> He became a dad at 51.
In both the stories about men having children or dating later in life the age of the woman wasn't included for some reason.
- tekla 3y agoWell I suppose its for the same reason why the women in the article also didn't have the men in their lives mentioned/named Or did you not read past the first 2 paragraphs?
- willcipriano 3y agoEveryone knows a man can get a woman pregnant at 51, what would be surprising is a woman having a successful pregnancy without complications at that age. If that's what happened why not include it, if not and she was younger, I fear women make takeaway a false message here.
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- scarface_74 3y agoYes but there is a real biological timeline for having children that is different between men and women.
- ohthatsnotright 3y agoI imagine they were more interested in the age of the partner as men can produce offspring until very late in their life (see Al Pacino for a recent example) whereas women do undergo some physical changes that make them incapable after a certain age. If it was a 51 year old man but a 20 year old woman, that's a very different story than both of them being well over 40.
- inkyoto 3y agoMen can remain fertile well into their seventies and even into the eighties, with occasional random stories of a man in his nineties impregnating a woman. It does not happen the other way round, unfortunately.
- yieldcrv 3y agoBecause it would derail the discussion when they point out she is almost half his age
- bluepod4 3y agoidk how much it would derail the discussion. The first paragraph said specifically “she couldn’t get pregnant” after trying for five years, indicating fertility problems.
- yieldcrv 3y agowhich could just as much be a him problem at that age (or all his life, but compounded by his age for different sperm viability problems)
- bluepod4 3y agoPossibly but not likely. It specifically said “she” couldn’t get pregnant. Not “they” couldn’t get pregnant. My interpretation seems to be the most correct one based on the juxtaposition. He finally found the “right one” but “she couldn’t get pregnant.” Of course, he could have lied or not looked into his own fertility issues. Being skeptical should always be a given when reading articles like this. But also, what you’re saying goes against what many other people here have been commenting (i.e. “it’s well known that men can have children late in life”). And let’s say that he did have fertility issues. My point would still stand, the mentioning of her age wouldn’t derail the discussion. (Which I think you’re agreeing with)
- yieldcrv 3y agookay. the counterpoints to that are that everything you observed are based on pervasive assumptions. which would be reflected in what everyone else wrote. which are perpetuated by the same health professionals and individuals that don't look into men's fertility realities first. but for example, why do we know its just "she couldn't get pregnant", were their other partners? was there an accident in the past? was one of her ovaries taken out in a procedure? the article doesn't say, the only thing for us to assume is that they tried and tried and tried and eventually one egg stuck. mentioning her age shouldn't derail a discussion whether she was 25 or 43 or other. that part we agree on, or at least I agree on, I think you're suggesting that she was closer in age and "therefore it would be okay", which is different than my observation entirely.