Every time women are mothers at more advanced ages. It is not uncommon to see 50-year-old mothers and although it is an exception, by the end of 2006 a 67-year-old woman gave birth to twins in Barcelona, claiming the title of the oldest mother in the world.
I totally agree that to learn to surf the Internet, exercise, travel or fall in love there is no age, but to be a mother, yes.
Until 50 go and pass, but at 67, in old age, Is it a mother or grandmother?
Obviously, we talk about pregnancies through assisted reproduction techniques. In Spain, the law does not set an age limit to be a mother. The decision is at the discretion of the doctor and the patient informed of the risks of becoming a mother at such an advanced age.
Because in addition to the high risk of late pregnancy for the baby and the mother, the phenomenon of mother-grandmothers It also comes to modify the family structure.
The point is that at the age they should become grandmothers, they are mothers. So it is almost impossible for these children to meet their grandparents, or at least enjoy them. Not to mention great grandparents. We are loading the coexistence of generations.
Doesn't it become a selfish decision to become a mother beyond the age of 50? Are not these mothers privileging their own desire to be mothers more than the future of the baby itself?
As for parenting and education, at 31 I am exhausted with two girls, nor do I want to imagine at 50 or 60 running behind a baby. And I see it with my mother or the mothers of friends who don't have the energy of 30 to keep up with a small child.
I'm sorry, but I think that common sense should prevail and set an age limit around 50 years to be a mother, beyond the fact that the woman is physically fit to be a mother.
For some reason menopause marks around that age the natural end of women's reproductive function. Better, that at 50 they dedicate themselves to being grandmothers.
