72-year old woman gives birth

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Like how people in Canada prefer a baby girl, the Chinese and Indians prefer boys. Traditional reasons. Again, in parts of India, like Kerela and Meghalaya, a baby girl is prefered due to the dominant matriachal society.



Unfortunately, India has a high fertility rate. Government family planning attempts have completely failed.

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I don't want to come off as ignorant but isn't that because they won't use....erm..protection?

Its a security against people aborting healthy children based on sex, yes. It may seem "unfair" to you, but in a culture where female gender can be a death sentence to an unborn child, its an unfairness that saves lives. If they just went round telling them all the sex, how many would carry to term? It would increase the abortion rate of girls exponentially.

Some laws are not there to be arbitrary, or mean, or controlling. They are there to help.

i just cant care no matter how hard i try

We know, but at least you cared enough to post.

I think it's unfair of them to have a child at their age just so that they can have a male heir. It sounds a bit selfish.

That's true.

Idiotic parents. Those children are almost guaranteed to become orphans before they are fully grown.

It's completely unnatural to have children at that age.

a lot of medical advances are unatural and im sure glad we have them

A lot of medical advances are indeed unnatural, but they at least have a positive impact. This particular event has a negative impact on the children, as the chances are that the parents will die before the child becomes an adult.

I guess you could say it has a positive impact on the parents due to the fact that they have a child. But then it comes down to a person's gain at another's suffering.

As for someone who said that the government has no right to tell us not to reproduce, they never made an attempt to stop us reproducing naturally. But when people are reproducing artificially at an age which they are not suitable to be parents that's a different story. At the age of 72 as this mother is, people are unable to reproduce naturally because they are not suitable to be parents.

Why is it illegal? to stop people from aborting based on the sex of the child? What about people who aren't going to abort? what if *they* want to find out? That is unfair.[/quote]

well places like that it will mean life or death for the child

I think it was too much of a risk--too much risk of losing the babies or ending up dead herself--to be ethical.

Could live to their 1003...
a 25 year old womwn may die in child birth

Ment 100

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eeeeeeeek.

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So you are saying that it is ok to have a child at the age of 72 as the parents might live to ta 100. So when the parents are in their late 90s will they be physically strong and active enough to cater for 2 demanding teenagers?

And just how many countries have a life expectancy of 100? None. What proportion of people live to the age of 100? Very little. Countries in the developed world have life expectancies between 75-82. I just looked up the life expectancy in India, it's 62 for men and 64 for women (according to the World Health Organisation). And just how many people live to the age of 100 in India, while being fairly strong and fit? Not many.

They would most likely be struggling to walk and look after themselves, and the child would have to end up looking after the parents if the parent even lives that long. This means hat even if the parents live that long, the child won't be able to go to school.

As for a 25 year old dying during childbirth, there is nothing we can do to completely prevent that from happening, as that's nature, but we use the medical advancements we have to try our best. But what is the chance of that happening anyway? What's the most likely outcome? The mother and child will both most likely survive if the mother is 25 years old. If the mother is 72, the child is almost guaranteed to become an orphan, and only some ignorant parents will take such a risk.

So either the child will become an orphan, or if that doesn't happen, then the child will not be able to go to school as he/she will end up having to look after his/her feeble parents once they reach their 80s and 90s.