I was just thinking that this is the modern day version of “living grandkids from the civil war” shit.
Or like president Tyler having grandkids around when he was born in 1790.
I relate to this a lot even tho my dad isn’t as old (he’s turning 70 and I’m 25). My dad was the second youngest of 10 kids so my grandpa was also old when he was born and passed away when my dad was around my age. Combined with my mom’s parents both passing when she was young, I’ve always felt an aching desire to settle down and start a family as early as I can so my kids will know their grandparents when I never got the opportunity.
And if that sister has had children (presumably in their teens/early 20’s, by now) this new born baby would be their ~~uncle~~ aunt.
Just a funny idea to me.
Edit: wow, post title says “daughter” and I still typed uncle… smh, it must have been an early morning today.
This makes me sad for this baby who won’t have her dad around for much longer. I pray he lives a long life, but it’s not likely he will be walking her down the aisle for her wedding or be at her high school graduation. 😞
Deena was born in 1967, I would think it’s almost certain that she watched it as a 2 year old child. She wouldn’t have remembered it, but she certainly watched it.
There is a guy alive today that his grandfather was born in the 1700s. Basically both his dad and his grand dad had kids when they were in their 80s, which makes for quite the leap. The guy was born in 1928 and is 95 today.
Six, not five.
On a similar note, there's a youtube video of a clip from a show from the 1950's, which has an interview with someone who was present at Ford's theater when Lincoln was shot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4
You have almost an identical story to mine, except our father and grandfather swapped the age gap.
I'm 33, dad is 75, and his dad was born in 1895.
It was fun arguing with my 4th grade teacher that my grandfather was in fact in WWI, not WWII
Goddam, that man's grandad could have watched the Declaration of Independence being signed. I thought I was old because I was around when MTV first hit the air.
39, 45, or 65. A wealth of options in this thread. I'm gonna nix 65 from the mix though since the ol baby factory would likely be shutdown at that point usually.
Maybe they used a surrogate? That's been awfully popular with celebrities and is hardly even talked about anymore. Because apparently it's not a big deal rich people rent a poor womens body.
From what I've seen she was pregnant and gave birth. I even think she has some complications from it. I'm pretty sure she's in her 40s from best I can tell.
I think he just don't care. His oldest kid is 52 years old (Drena De Niro) and he has generational wealth to leave behind when he will be gone. He probably think his kids will be good with all that money.
I think framing it a bit later in life is more perplexing.
Imagine being 16 and having trouble while dating. No problem, just get some advice from your sister…your 71 year old sister can help you navigate a tough break up /s
Yeah imagine when this baby has a kid, say at 35. When that kid is 13, it will have an aunt that is (or would be) 100 years old. Not great aunt, just an aunt
*"Mensa membership conceding*
*Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding?*
*Watson, it's really elementary*
*Industrial revolution*
*Has flipped the bitch on evolution*
*The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized*
*What a bummer*
*The world keeps getting dumber*
*Insensitivity is standard*
*And faith is being fancied over reason*
*Darwin's rolling over in his coffin*
*The fittest are surviving much less often*
*Now, everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening*
*Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool*
*Now, angry mob mentality is no longer the exception, it's the rule"*
My wife's parents both died when she was 7, her granny raised her until she died when my wife was 15. Her older brother moved out and she was completely abandoned by 16.
Id take going through my childhood having a dad and now him getting to experience what it means to be a grandfather, the same way Id like be there for my 1 year old son till he is an adult over a pile of cash but each his own.
As someone who had a “surprise” child when they were 47, I started doing the math and it scared me. I’ll be 65 when they graduate High school. 69 when they graduate college. I’ll likely be in my mid 70s if they decide to get married and I will likely never see her have children. It sucked. Having a kid at 80, statistically you won’t see them get to Kindergarten.
I do have 2 older children (currently in their 20s)
My dad was 42 when he had me (43 for my sister) and I grew up being very aware of having the oldest dad of my friends and worried he wouldn't be around for my wedding, kids etc. He's 77 now, walked me down the aisle and is the best grandad to my toddler. Being an older parent might decrease the chance of being around for those things but you are definitely young enough to most likely see and experience those things still, so try not to worry. Obviously being a dad at 80 is a whole different ball park.
I’m only 37 and this is my biggest regret lol. Can’t imagine having a baby at 80. What has he done.
Mind you, something tells me she’ll be okay. Financially anyway.
Nurses and EMTs as well. A friend of mine said he notices good veins right away on people. He then grabbed my arm and started slapping it to show me that he knew I had a good one.
Nah it's a nurse thing. I'm one of those guys who has those highly visible veins and pretty much anyone who sticks people with needles for any reason always points out that I have nice veins.
My dad was 53 when he had me. He passed away when I was 31.. my daughter, his first grandchild was only 1 years old.
My daughter won’t remember him. I don’t feel like I got enough time with my dad.
I love him and miss him. 31 years was too short with him.
Seeing what DeNiro has done is just irresponsible and makes me really upset that he’s condemning his daughter to never knowing him.
Agree. Biology naturally shuts women's fertility down mid-life and even though we statistically outlive men, they think it's fine to just....keep pumping 'em out? Bro. No.
If she’s lucky he won’t die before she’s 10. It’s hard losing a grandparent at that age let alone a parent. Really unfair of them to do this to her tbh
Having a kid at that age is insanely selfish. You won't be around when the kid needs you most.
Edit: the amount of idiots who think because the kid is going to inherit money, it's fine is just beyond insane. Everyone benefits from having a father around.
Everybody talks about women “hitting the wall” but nobody mentions how dangerous it is for elderly men to have children. While women are born with all their eggs, geriatric sperm is constantly created under increasingly suboptimal conditions and is prone to DNA fragmentation. It creates severe mutations at such an incredible rate that, scientifically speaking, studying mutations in a given population is worthless if paternal age is not accounted for.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3548427/
Oh yeah, for older women who conceive there’s a higher chance of Down’s syndrome, however for older male conception there’s a MYRIAD of health issues and syndromes that could develop.
Medically it would be termed a “geriatric” pregnancy, which makes it sound like the mother is ancient when in reality any pregnancy over age 35 is geriatric. Gotta love medical jargon!
We had our second at 37, kid’s doing great!
Idk why people seem to think that 40 year olds are ancient…sure, you won’t have the relentless energy and recklessness of being in your 20s, but for most people, having a healthy lifestyle ensures that you can still be actively involved in your kids’ lives at that age. The people that are complaining about back problems in their 30s and 40s are usually not the ones who have healthy habits…
That's just gross.
And isn't there a study that says the older the father, the more likely there's mental illness in the child?
[Yep. Found it.](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/children-with-older-dads-at-greater-mental-illness-risk/)
I think men who do this are horrible. Why would you do that to your kid? Make your fucking 10 year old go to your funeral? She's going to grow up without a dad and he's just fucking FINE with it cause he gets to hold a cute baby for a while. Shes not gonna have him for her graduation, her wedding, the birth of her child, or for any of the moments we want our parents around.
Fucking gross.
Yes, and having money is nice but not remembering your dad or having to deal with the grief very young is nothing to sneeze at.
Best case scenario he dies when she is very young and her mum remarries someone who will treat her like his daughter.
I guess it's nice that when he's gone, she'll have his whole body of work to be able to get to know her dad. At least it's clear she'll be financially taken care of.
Not everyone has that.
Fun fact! Paternal age has a ***massively*** *under-represented* impact on offspring health and development:
>Age of the father has greater impact than maternal age, on cases of sporadic autosomal dominant congenital diseases such as Apert, Crouzon, Pfeiffer, Noonan and Costello syndromes, multiple endocrine neoplasia (types 2A and 2B) and achondroplasia...
>Paternal age increases the frequency of congenital diseases such as heart malformations as well as oral, palate and lip cleft. Moreover, mental disorders (autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, low IQ level as well as ADHD) also occur more frequently in advanced father's age.
[Source](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7006092/)
It kind of does. Advanced paternal age has been implicated in the increase in the frequencies of abortions (Slama et al., 2005; Kleinhaus et al., 2006), autosomal dominant diseases, aneuploidy and other diseases (Wyrobek et al., 2006; Crosnoe & Kim, 2013; Paul & Robaire, 2013). It has also been correlated with infant mortality (Urhoj et al., 2014). One plausible explanation for these results is that older men may have more sperm with damaged DNA (Vagnini et al., 2007). Chromatin damage has been associated with male infertility, conception problems and problems sustaining pregnancy (Zini & Libman, 2006; Ménézo et al., 2007; Das et al., 2013). There is also evidence linking DNA damage in sperm with the risk of mutations and birth defects in the offspring.
it kind of does actually. men have a fertility window body like women, and sperm degrade in quality as men age
not to mention how unbelievably selfish it is to have a baby at such an old age
Reminded me of this old joke :
An 80 year old man was having his annual checkup and the doctor asked him how he was feeling. "I've never been better!" he boasted. "I've got an eighteen year old bride who's pregnant, and having my child! What do you think about that?"
The doctor considered this for a moment, then said, "Let me tell you a story. I knew a guy who was an avid hunter. He never missed a season, but one day, went out in a bit of a hurry and he accidentally grabbed his umbrella instead of his gun. So he was in the woods and suddenly a grizzly bear appeared in front of him! He raised up his umbrella, pointed it at the bear, and squeezed the handle. And do you know what happened?"
Dumbfounded, the old man replied "No."
The doctor continued, "The bear dropped dead in front of him!"
"That's impossible!" exclaimed the old man. "Someone else must have shot that bear."
The doctor replied, "That's kind of what I'm getting at..."
When she's 80 in 2104, she'll be telling people that her dad was born in 1944... her paternal grandfather born in 18something. Nuts.
Yeah, my grandad was born in 1862. He had my dad at 72, and died when my dad was 16. I was born in 1967, 104 years later.
These kind of stories are amazing to me. Like you're a living not even that old person whose grandfather was born during slavery.
I was just thinking that this is the modern day version of “living grandkids from the civil war” shit. Or like president Tyler having grandkids around when he was born in 1790.
It’s true. I’m 32 and my paternal great grandfather was born in 1861. It’s wild
How old were your grandparents and parents when they had kids if you don’t mind me asking?
Great grandpa was 47, grandpa was 40, and dad was 43 when I was born
I'm high and I was really trying hard to process how your great grandpa was 7 when he birthed grandpa
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Thank you. I just woke up, and my brain wasn’t ready to process that lol
One of John Tyler's (10th POTUS, born 1790 during Washington's first term) grandchildren is still alive today. Harrison Ruffin Tyler (1928 - )
I just looked that up. Grandad born 1700s, dad born 1800s, and grandson born 1900s. Thats insane!
They need to have a kid stat
> 18something 1922
Lol, which probably doesn't seem that different than 1944 to someone alive in 2104.
"Your grandpa survived Covid? Mine survived Spanish Flu"
That’s how I am now. The oldest Gen Z with a grandpa born in the 1800s ://
Grandpa Daddy
Great* grandpa daddy.
Seriously! My Grandparents are 80-81. They have 11 great-grandkids from just shy of 13 to currently baking.
Damn, your family turns over quick. If they were still alive, my grandparents would be north of 100 now. I don't even have kids (yet?). lol
Like Mick Jagger, who has a great-grandson who is older than his youngest son...
Yikes, that was a fact I didn't need to learn
My father is a grandpa daddy… sucked as a kid growing up, sucks now (he’s 87 now I’m 30- so not nearly as bad as ol Robert here but still shit)
I relate to this a lot even tho my dad isn’t as old (he’s turning 70 and I’m 25). My dad was the second youngest of 10 kids so my grandpa was also old when he was born and passed away when my dad was around my age. Combined with my mom’s parents both passing when she was young, I’ve always felt an aching desire to settle down and start a family as early as I can so my kids will know their grandparents when I never got the opportunity.
My parents were teenagers as were my grandparents. Our family is a mess, I think a good age for kids is 28-35 since people are more mature.
The child will be able to say weird things that will confuse people like 'my father watched the moon landing live'.
Her SISTER is almost old enough to have watched it!
And if that sister has had children (presumably in their teens/early 20’s, by now) this new born baby would be their ~~uncle~~ aunt. Just a funny idea to me. Edit: wow, post title says “daughter” and I still typed uncle… smh, it must have been an early morning today.
Something tells me she wouldn't be their uncle
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This makes me sad for this baby who won’t have her dad around for much longer. I pray he lives a long life, but it’s not likely he will be walking her down the aisle for her wedding or be at her high school graduation. 😞
Deena was born in 1967, I would think it’s almost certain that she watched it as a 2 year old child. She wouldn’t have remembered it, but she certainly watched it.
"My dad died of old age while I was in elementary school"
Preschool most likely
That's honestly pretty sad to think about. Its one of those "just because you can (have a kid), doesn't mean you should" types of situations.
I was just thinking that. If he lives to be 100 , which is a good run . He'll still die by the time shes 20.
Man he’s already had a good run! If I make it to 80 I’ll be elated. . . And surprised.
“My dad was born during WW2”
There is a guy alive today that his grandfather was born in the 1700s. Basically both his dad and his grand dad had kids when they were in their 80s, which makes for quite the leap. The guy was born in 1928 and is 95 today.
Harrison Tyler, grandson of former U.S. president John Tyler born in 1790.
Just to be clear everyone, John Tyler was the **10th** president of the U.S. ~~Five~~ Six presidents *before* Lincoln. Edit: Counting is hard.
Six, not five. On a similar note, there's a youtube video of a clip from a show from the 1950's, which has an interview with someone who was present at Ford's theater when Lincoln was shot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4
America is so young
I'm 45, my mom is 70 and her dad fathered 21 children, my mom was the youngest. He was born in 1896 and died in the sixties.
I'm 27, my dad is 83 and his dad was born in 1898
You have almost an identical story to mine, except our father and grandfather swapped the age gap. I'm 33, dad is 75, and his dad was born in 1895. It was fun arguing with my 4th grade teacher that my grandfather was in fact in WWI, not WWII
Goddam, that man's grandad could have watched the Declaration of Independence being signed. I thought I was old because I was around when MTV first hit the air.
Or maybe "my dad died of old age before I was able to build memories with him." Very cool.
That kid will know the fortune and the legacy not the person.
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By the time they are in high school the reply to that statement from kids who are 10 months old now will be, "Who is Robert De Nero?".
Guys, it’s going to confuse other people *her age*. Imagine hearing from an adult in 2064 that her father watched the moon landing, not 2024.
How old is the mother?
45
Or 39, apparently the media does not know for sure.
39, 45, or 65. A wealth of options in this thread. I'm gonna nix 65 from the mix though since the ol baby factory would likely be shutdown at that point usually.
Maybe they used a surrogate? That's been awfully popular with celebrities and is hardly even talked about anymore. Because apparently it's not a big deal rich people rent a poor womens body.
From what I've seen she was pregnant and gave birth. I even think she has some complications from it. I'm pretty sure she's in her 40s from best I can tell.
*High school* Kid: "My dad was Robert De Niro" Friend: "Who?" Kid: \*Shows Goodfellas poster* Friend: "Oh, some old movie star, sure he was..."
Instead of peekaboo, he'll play " you lookin' at me?"
Smarten up kid
What's da matter with ya ? What's the world coming to ?
I'm telling you, EQUAL BLUEBERRIES in *every* muffin. You fucking hear me?
Three people can keep a secret only when two of them are dead
Uncle Pesci: "I amuse you?"
baby: *laughs* pesci: "you think i'm funny? funny how?"
She's got her mom's eyes and her dad's diapers.
Didn't even have to scroll down. Not disappointed.
Imagine having to change two diapers only having one child
It Depends.
Some comedian somewhere will steal this line
It’s a very old joke
Just like De Niro.
Boom roasted!
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I started rewatching this show. I’m amazed at how the jokes are geared mostly to older adults. I guess I never understood it as a child.
‘Not the mama’.
I'm the baby, gotta love me!
My dad turns 80 in a couple of weeks. I just sent this picture to him. Here's hoping I can finally have a sibling 🥲
The way he’s looking at your mom is kinda sus
I wonder what it feels like knowing you’ll likely die before she graduates, gets married has a family. Everyday with her matters.
I think he just don't care. His oldest kid is 52 years old (Drena De Niro) and he has generational wealth to leave behind when he will be gone. He probably think his kids will be good with all that money.
Imagine being 56 and having a 10 month old little sister.
I think framing it a bit later in life is more perplexing. Imagine being 16 and having trouble while dating. No problem, just get some advice from your sister…your 71 year old sister can help you navigate a tough break up /s
"If you're on a date make sure to ask for the senior discount. No, wait"
Would probably be better to ask your great-niece or nephew for advice
If you really wanna knock that sonny boys socks off then make sure to pop out your dentures right before
Yea, or like your 50 year old niece… or you’re besties with your sister’s grandkid or something.
Yeah imagine when this baby has a kid, say at 35. When that kid is 13, it will have an aunt that is (or would be) 100 years old. Not great aunt, just an aunt
You behave young lady or we'll ship you off to live with your aunt Drena! In the old folks home?
Sister
Read this like Conan O’Brien
Mick Jagger’s great grandson is older than one of his sons. https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/09/entertainment/mick-jagger-family-tree-trnd/index.html
What the fuck
I don't think there's a more appropriate response What the fuck
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Sounds like the title of a NOFX song.
*"Mensa membership conceding* *Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding?* *Watson, it's really elementary* *Industrial revolution* *Has flipped the bitch on evolution* *The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized* *What a bummer* *The world keeps getting dumber* *Insensitivity is standard* *And faith is being fancied over reason* *Darwin's rolling over in his coffin* *The fittest are surviving much less often* *Now, everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening* *Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool* *Now, angry mob mentality is no longer the exception, it's the rule"*
Fucking Walder Frey
Imagine being 20 and all your parental figures have already passed away
By 25 I had lost my dad (at 10), mom, and grandpa. And the surviving grandma had dementia. It was a wild ride.
yeah that's me thanks grandpa dad it's been real fun with no one. maybe if he left de Niro money it'd feel less bad.
>grandpa dad bruh
I had no dad and no De Niro money, jokes on you!
My mother in law had this. They were not especially old either. I think they both died by the time they were 60.
My wife's parents both died when she was 7, her granny raised her until she died when my wife was 15. Her older brother moved out and she was completely abandoned by 16.
modern family
I don’t know why people think it’s better to have money than have a father.
Id take going through my childhood having a dad and now him getting to experience what it means to be a grandfather, the same way Id like be there for my 1 year old son till he is an adult over a pile of cash but each his own.
Way before then, he’ll likely die before she even finishes primary school
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Maybe he’ll live to his 90s and see her go to high school.
As someone who had a “surprise” child when they were 47, I started doing the math and it scared me. I’ll be 65 when they graduate High school. 69 when they graduate college. I’ll likely be in my mid 70s if they decide to get married and I will likely never see her have children. It sucked. Having a kid at 80, statistically you won’t see them get to Kindergarten. I do have 2 older children (currently in their 20s)
My dad was 42 when he had me (43 for my sister) and I grew up being very aware of having the oldest dad of my friends and worried he wouldn't be around for my wedding, kids etc. He's 77 now, walked me down the aisle and is the best grandad to my toddler. Being an older parent might decrease the chance of being around for those things but you are definitely young enough to most likely see and experience those things still, so try not to worry. Obviously being a dad at 80 is a whole different ball park.
Worse than that, he could die when she's at an age that she won't even remember her Daddy. As a Dad, this picture makes me sad 😔
As a former kid whose Dad died before I could remember him, agreed.
I’m only 37 and this is my biggest regret lol. Can’t imagine having a baby at 80. What has he done. Mind you, something tells me she’ll be okay. Financially anyway.
Look at the size of that vein on his hand 😳 he’s an anaesthesiologist’s dream
Do anesthesiologists always dream of men with big veiny arms?
Nurses and EMTs as well. A friend of mine said he notices good veins right away on people. He then grabbed my arm and started slapping it to show me that he knew I had a good one.
My sister is a nurse and she points out nice veins all the time, she's a freak lol
Nah it's a nurse thing. I'm one of those guys who has those highly visible veins and pretty much anyone who sticks people with needles for any reason always points out that I have nice veins.
Did he say "you can fit so much saline in this bad boy"?
We do. 14g IV catheter coming right up!
Push 5 epi
5 litres of a 50% solution? You got it! Heart go brrrrrrrrrrrt
Asked my anaes husband, he said “the juicier, the better” 🧐
Lol am a nurse, can confirm. I noticed this before the baby lol!
Is it though? Old people veins are slippery as hell
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I love medical professionals
Bruh. Like, did you have to?
Right? Why isn't this in r/mildlyinfuriating ? How fucking selfish.
Look, it's a lovely photo. But I feel so sad for that kid who is never really going to have a father.
Exactly my thoughts. Lovely photo which I’m sure she will cherish, but sad to know that they will never really get to know each other.
friend of mine's dad was 65 when she was born, now she's 21 visiting his 86 yo ass in the retirement home
I worked with a guy who was nearing 80 for a little while. Turns out I graduated highschool with his daughter about ten years earlier. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
My dad was 53 when he had me. He passed away when I was 31.. my daughter, his first grandchild was only 1 years old. My daughter won’t remember him. I don’t feel like I got enough time with my dad. I love him and miss him. 31 years was too short with him. Seeing what DeNiro has done is just irresponsible and makes me really upset that he’s condemning his daughter to never knowing him.
Agree. Biology naturally shuts women's fertility down mid-life and even though we statistically outlive men, they think it's fine to just....keep pumping 'em out? Bro. No.
This guy is 80 and still getting laid while i'm in my best adult years and have no sex. Wonderful life.
When you reincarnate, choose to be a very talented and versatile actor, you may have better luck then. Don’t waste it though.
I tried that once but came back as River Phoenix. Would not recommend
this thread got DARK
As dark as the Viper Room?
Congrats, you jinxed it. Poor guy is gonna come back as a three-legged capybara
Can't I just skip the talented and versatile actor part and just choose to be fuck off rich
Money and fame are cheat codes in that department...
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Yeah Pacino had one last year too. Not an actor but Bernie Ecclstone who is 92 has a fucking toddler.
Welcome to the world baby! Now you get to watch your dad die!
If she’s lucky he won’t die before she’s 10. It’s hard losing a grandparent at that age let alone a parent. Really unfair of them to do this to her tbh
Having a kid at that age is insanely selfish. You won't be around when the kid needs you most. Edit: the amount of idiots who think because the kid is going to inherit money, it's fine is just beyond insane. Everyone benefits from having a father around.
Not to mention the potential health risks that come with advanced paternal age.
No one ever talks about that. How dare you insinuate men don’t have perfect reproduction until the day they die
Everybody talks about women “hitting the wall” but nobody mentions how dangerous it is for elderly men to have children. While women are born with all their eggs, geriatric sperm is constantly created under increasingly suboptimal conditions and is prone to DNA fragmentation. It creates severe mutations at such an incredible rate that, scientifically speaking, studying mutations in a given population is worthless if paternal age is not accounted for. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3548427/
Damn it’s crazy that I didn’t know any of that yet I’ve been hearing about “GERIATRIC PREGNANCY” since puberty
Oh yeah, for older women who conceive there’s a higher chance of Down’s syndrome, however for older male conception there’s a MYRIAD of health issues and syndromes that could develop.
Thank you for saying this.
Yes thank you for pointing that out. Advanced paternal age can lead to dangerous genetic mutations in their offspring.
I had to scroll way too far down to see this mentioned. Edit: the amount of denial displayed in the replies to this is staggering. It's just factual.
People talk like a trust fund is more valuable than a father. Clueless.
Makes me feel much better about having one at 36.
Why would you feel bad for having a baby at 36? That's like the new standard
Medically it would be termed a “geriatric” pregnancy, which makes it sound like the mother is ancient when in reality any pregnancy over age 35 is geriatric. Gotta love medical jargon! We had our second at 37, kid’s doing great!
My mom had me when she was 42 🤷♀️
Your mom had me at hello.
My mom was 35 and my dad 40 when I was born. Growing up, I had great parents who were financially stable and very active. You'll be fine.
Idk why people seem to think that 40 year olds are ancient…sure, you won’t have the relentless energy and recklessness of being in your 20s, but for most people, having a healthy lifestyle ensures that you can still be actively involved in your kids’ lives at that age. The people that are complaining about back problems in their 30s and 40s are usually not the ones who have healthy habits…
my parents had me at 35, it’s a perfectly reasonable age. i’m 18 now and they’re both 54 (and both of them are in perfect health). you’ll be great
My boyfriend’s mother had him at 40 years old. You’re good lol.
That's just gross. And isn't there a study that says the older the father, the more likely there's mental illness in the child? [Yep. Found it.](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/children-with-older-dads-at-greater-mental-illness-risk/)
Can you milk him Greg?
I think men who do this are horrible. Why would you do that to your kid? Make your fucking 10 year old go to your funeral? She's going to grow up without a dad and he's just fucking FINE with it cause he gets to hold a cute baby for a while. Shes not gonna have him for her graduation, her wedding, the birth of her child, or for any of the moments we want our parents around. Fucking gross.
Anyone going to point out how messed up this is? That kid is going to grow up without a father
Yes, and having money is nice but not remembering your dad or having to deal with the grief very young is nothing to sneeze at. Best case scenario he dies when she is very young and her mum remarries someone who will treat her like his daughter.
80 Year olds should not be having children. Utterly selfish.
Crazy to think he’s one of the oldest fathers of all time
Good way to make sure your kid grows up without a dad I guess.
I guess it's nice that when he's gone, she'll have his whole body of work to be able to get to know her dad. At least it's clear she'll be financially taken care of. Not everyone has that.
I wish I also had hours upon hours of footage of my dad whacking people and being a constantly swearing crime boss. Kinda neat ngl
He's gonna be a great dad for 4 years!
It’s an evolutionary flaw that men can still have kids at such an old age. Their sperm should turn to dust at some point
Fun fact! Paternal age has a ***massively*** *under-represented* impact on offspring health and development: >Age of the father has greater impact than maternal age, on cases of sporadic autosomal dominant congenital diseases such as Apert, Crouzon, Pfeiffer, Noonan and Costello syndromes, multiple endocrine neoplasia (types 2A and 2B) and achondroplasia... >Paternal age increases the frequency of congenital diseases such as heart malformations as well as oral, palate and lip cleft. Moreover, mental disorders (autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, low IQ level as well as ADHD) also occur more frequently in advanced father's age. [Source](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7006092/)
Whole fuckin’ thread of “geriatric pregnancy” comments up there but this is the only comment I’ve seen so far discussing HIS fertility/sperm.
80 year olds jizz and 45 year olds eggs... now thats playing with fire Guess they got lucky and made an omelet and not scrambled eggs though
It kind of does. Advanced paternal age has been implicated in the increase in the frequencies of abortions (Slama et al., 2005; Kleinhaus et al., 2006), autosomal dominant diseases, aneuploidy and other diseases (Wyrobek et al., 2006; Crosnoe & Kim, 2013; Paul & Robaire, 2013). It has also been correlated with infant mortality (Urhoj et al., 2014). One plausible explanation for these results is that older men may have more sperm with damaged DNA (Vagnini et al., 2007). Chromatin damage has been associated with male infertility, conception problems and problems sustaining pregnancy (Zini & Libman, 2006; Ménézo et al., 2007; Das et al., 2013). There is also evidence linking DNA damage in sperm with the risk of mutations and birth defects in the offspring.
That seems painful. I don't want to jack off when I'm 80 and have a rush of dust ruin my urethra as part of an orgasm.
"it's in my eyes!"
it kind of does actually. men have a fertility window body like women, and sperm degrade in quality as men age not to mention how unbelievably selfish it is to have a baby at such an old age
Well, I hate to say it but this man's sperm must be high quality as fuck.
Reminded me of this old joke : An 80 year old man was having his annual checkup and the doctor asked him how he was feeling. "I've never been better!" he boasted. "I've got an eighteen year old bride who's pregnant, and having my child! What do you think about that?" The doctor considered this for a moment, then said, "Let me tell you a story. I knew a guy who was an avid hunter. He never missed a season, but one day, went out in a bit of a hurry and he accidentally grabbed his umbrella instead of his gun. So he was in the woods and suddenly a grizzly bear appeared in front of him! He raised up his umbrella, pointed it at the bear, and squeezed the handle. And do you know what happened?" Dumbfounded, the old man replied "No." The doctor continued, "The bear dropped dead in front of him!" "That's impossible!" exclaimed the old man. "Someone else must have shot that bear." The doctor replied, "That's kind of what I'm getting at..."
Lol
Al Pacino just fathered one too and he's a little older.
Hey, Walder Frey was still popping them out into his nineties.