| Parental responsibility was RE: vasectomy recovery time
Maggie wrote:
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> > 4) When one is in their 50's they do not necessarily want a baby
> > around; having a child hit puberty when one is retiring is not
> > necessarily a good thing.>
> > - rick
>
> What a scary thought. If you have a baby at 45 you will have a
> teenager when you are in your sixties......Oh my God. I hardly made it
> through my kids teenage years and I got married when I was a mere
> child. I was in my thirties when they were in the hell of puberty.
> Early forties for my last one going through puberty. If I had one
> going through all that now that I am 50, I think I might shoot myself.
> I want grandchildren. The kind you get to spoil and send home with
> their parents. It doesn't get any better than that.
> Maggie.
The sad thing is a lot of the "grandparents" today in their later 50s
and 60s are (now) saddled (not quite the word I want to use) to raise
their grandchildren because their own child(ren) didn't or couldn't
properly support and care for their children (the grandkids), or perhaps
the middle generation refused to accept/honor responsibilty,
whatever(?). In most cases, it's the child(ren) who suffers.
Unfortunately, it seems that more and more "grandparents" now have to
raise their grandkids because their own children are unable to properly
care for them???  scarey thought/times.
Skyhooks
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