The rise of 'co-parenting': Broody, single women advertising for men to help them have babies

Daily Mail ^ | 08/18/2013 | EMMA ELMS

[Chickensoup]

As someone who brought the first child home at 36 and the last one home at 45, have babies early and often. I can assure you that a 15 year old at age 60 is a different kind of torture!

[Orangedog]

I’m guessing some of these broads don’t realize that one of the big reasons they have not been able to find decent men who want to marry and have children with them is that for a man, the risks far outweigh the potential rewards. The men these women attract for this kind of arrangement aren’t going to be Mensa candidates. I’m surprised there hasn’t been a larger number of men in their 20’s and 30’s getting vasectomies.

[shhrubbery!]

Ladies, 42 is not the time to be looking for a good man to be the father of your children. Regardless of feminist doctrine, the time to find a good man who will marry you, is in your early 20's.

You are SO right!

Even from a purely physical point of view, pregnancies and their resulting children begin to be much more problematic, starting when the woman is in her early-to-mid thirties.

My last child was born when I was almost 35 -- but even at that relatively young age, the pregnancy was more difficult for me to carry that the previous pregnancies in my 20s. I was already getting too "old," from an obstetrical point of view.

Obstetrical old-ness has little to do with a woman's looks -- she can be outwardly youthful-looking and even very "fit." But if she has her first baby when she is over 34 years old, she will be considered an "elderly primigravida" by medical professionals, for good reason.

Children borne of such "late" pregnancies also tend to have more physical problems than children borne of mothers in their 20s (which is NOT to say that their lives are worth less; it is merely an observation of fact).

As more news gets out about the higher risk of physical and mental problems faced by children borne of IVF treatments (e.g. autism) and other extreme measures that are taken by desperate women in their 40s ... I think we will begin to see more women take a jaundiced view of feminist dogma that insists that career must come first, and children last.

[vetvetdoug]

I can assure you that a 15 year old at age 60 is a different kind of torture!

Are you me in another dimension? Exactly! I thought I was the only one in this position. I married a younger woman and expected her to be with me rearing a young one. She died. Now I have a 15 year old out of control hormone addled teenager.

[Travis McGee]

[DuncanWaring]

Not even Laz would hit that.

[DuncanWaring]

They want to “have” children but don’t want to “be” parents.

[DuncanWaring]

There’s a poster on FR who has signed-up to deal with a 15-year-old when he’s 80 (if he’s still alive).

[PapaBear3625]

There’s a poster on FR who has signed-up to deal with a 15-year-old when he’s 80 (if he’s still alive).

Advice: get a tazer.

[Justa]

Isn’t that AlexW in the Phillipines?

[Night Hides Not]

For Carson Rennick, 36, a 6ft 3in handsome Canadian – one of the sought-after heterosexual men on the site – it’s money well spent. ‘I don’t want to be 40 or 50 having my first child and not being able to enjoy their fundamental years,’ he says.

Dude doesn't know jack squat. While my 11 YO is not my first child (he has a sister and brother aged 26 & 24, respectively), to say I haven't been able to enjoy his "fundamental years" is utter nonsense.

I'm now 59, and we just returned from vacation, and Mom opted not to join us. Our first week included stops at Monument Valley and Bryce Canyon for horseback rides, and a day of canyoneering near Zion NP:

[RightWingConspirator]

Definitely would have to use a sack for that one!