Not quite sure what the takeaway is from the NY Times' eleven years later follow-up article on men in their 60's, 70's, and 80's having kids, other than that the original article's star dad, Tony Randall, died in 2004 at 84, leaving his barely-thirty-year-old wife and two small children.
Apparently, whenever you become a father, you just automatically assume you'll be around for the college graduations and weddings and grandchildren, even if you're pushing your own actuarial limits. Still, even now, when the kid asks about why people die, we always only ever seem to say that we'll be around for a long, long time. If you did make your own looming death a regular topic of discussion around the house, wouldn't it totally skew things?
"Eat your carrots, kid-o."
"No. When you're dead, I won't have to!"
On the upside, being old with nothing else to do gives you a lot of time to spend with the kid, so maybe it's one of those glass half full deals.
Man, those were some of the creepiest pictures I've ever seen. Was the photographer being paid to make them look weird?
The Coopersmith picture is one of the creepest images I've seen in a long time. The fact that the guy is a psychotherapist adds to the creepiness.
So with these "older" dads, the wife changes the diapers on the kids and then wife AND the kids have to change the diaper on the dad - ick!