on Aug 23rd, 2006To Be or Not To Be…A Father
The decision to become a father, at least in the old days, used to be left up to chance. Today the decision requires deliberation. Hamlet, my friends, had it easy. To mutter “to be or not to be” pales in comparison to “I’m pregnant or I’m infertile.”
Here’s one more account of having children later in life. For a refresher on the topic, click here.
The first time in my life I had unprotected sex, one August night three summers ago, I was 45. No pill or condom, no diaphragm or IUD — none of the sundry devices deployed to keep me careering, childless, through a quarter-century of romance with women I had lusted after and sometimes loved. This time the woman was my wife, Molly, and we had decided to have a baby.
Fatherhood, I Now Learn, Is a Young Man’s Game
By RAND RICHARDS COOPER
New York Times, August 20, 2006
See also Sun, Fun and Kids…at 49!