[garinda]

Originally Posted by pendy

It is sad when you meet somebody later in life with whom you would love to have children. However, you can't have everything, contrary to what seems to happen so much these days. As Lettie says, Nature is wise. Women can't have children late in life for good reasons, not least the welfare of the child. Perhaps she's rich enough to afford nannies and good child care, but where is the point in having one if you don't spend time with it?

If it's nature's way of stopping older people becoming parents, why do men still produce active sperm until death?

Admittedly with the sperm doing a gentle, sedate breast stroke, rather than a more frantic front crawl, as they would have been doing when the man was younger.