Couples in their mid 50s and 60s, decide it would be cool to have kids. Your thoughts?

Wanting kids even later in life is normal but i don't know wheter it is the best for the kids and giving birth is unsafe once you reach a certain age.
I would say adopting older kids or teenagers would be a great thing.
I wouldn't consider it selfish.

My parents are in their 70s… they adopt 3 kids and sent them to school.

Having all I could handle raising two in my 20's-40's I can't even begin to imagine starting it again in my 50's-60's. Either they have never raised children or killed enough memory cells they forgot what it was like.

🤔what you mean as a natural conception or adoption as the first in itself brings it own risks of down syndromes child .you then need too think you maybe there parents but you could also be the age of there grandparents , could you cope with bring up children do you think you could do the best for them growing up as really age is rather against you [ladybronte]

I don’t think I could judge another couple. I could say as a male of the age you describe that it would be naive of me to think any woman in that age bracket would want to have a(nother) child. So I would never expect that. Might be a different story if she strongly wanted that. But she better be Wonder Woman 🦸🏼‍♀️ 😄

Maybe they are healthy, financially able, and just plain want to have a child together. People are living much longer now. Many in this age bracket are finding they are in a second stage of life. A lot of people would argue that having a child at any age is selfish these days. At least, having one as a mature adult would possible work in the child’s favor since they are more prepared and aware of what goes in to raising a child. They have the experience of watching their friends and other family members. Also, the odds of parents and in-laws butting in is pretty low.

I think it’s not a good idea, I’m 64 so assuming I was alive in 18 years I’d be like 82.

No storing opinion on this but would say that perhaps it might be even more tiring than for younger parents?

It’s too old, especially in the 60s.

Out of touch with the times by then. Forget it.

You had me until the kids part. 😳

Selfish

Only if they still have the energy and ability

I think adoption is a different situation. Usually the adopted kids are older than new borns. Good for your parents to adopt!

Don’t the kids come out looking like potatoes at that age?

Are you considering having a child 😁

Idle.

I think that’s a silly age to have kids personally nothing wrong with counting one’s blessings without kids in the picture

In my honest opinion they're probably in denial of how quickly mortality is creeping up

I'm only 47, and I'm already thinking it's probably too late to think about having a kid. I don't know. Getting married, though, doesn't sound selfish at all.