Consequences of geezer breeding

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/single-sisters-stage-wedding-photo-shoot-dad-alzheimers/story?id=41845582&yptr=yahoo

A couple of young girl in their twenties have pics taken with their 80 year old father in wedding dresses. Neither of them is even engaged, but since their father is 80 and has dementia this is a way for them to have him in "wedding" pics. The dude would have been pushing 60 when the younger daughter was born.

Sad, sad, sad. For all parties involved. Alzheimer's is terrible. Watching someone decline with Alzheimer's is terrible, too. I feel for them.

I've posted it before and I'll post it again... life is linear. Life is tragic. When you have kids at such a late age, you risk these kinds of things happening.

Sad. Alzheimer's is one of those that takes your loved one before death does, and it's heart-wrenching. I watched my grandmother go through it, and I watched what that process did to my aunts, my uncles, and my mom.

Friend of mine from college is kid 12 out of 13. Her dad was over 70 by the time she got to college, and didn't live much longer after. She loved her parents dearly, but has commented that having parents who were markedly older did rip her off in a few ways. She didn't get to know them for as long, she didn't get to horse around or rough-house with them the way little kids do with their parents, and their time was always divided. My friend got the short end of TWO sticks, really: they were old, and she was youngest in a huge brood. Could be why the aforementioned friend had exactly ONE kid, and is making sure he gets to get out in nature and see lots of different places (two things her parents never did due to age and lack of money).

When you make decisions, there's always a tradeoff. People who breed late can do their kids a massive disservice.

So these girls get to spend the start of their adult lives caring for their ailing father, witness the destruction of Alzheimer's, and have to come up with ways to alleviate the fact that their father will not be around for major milestones.

I wonder if that's one of the ideas behind geezer breeding: "Well, let me have a kid in my 60s, that way the kid doesn't have a marriage, career, or kids to get in the way of being my personal free nurse and maid in my elderly years."

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