- Staff Notice
A COUPLE have become Britain’s oldest new parents — only to have their baby taken from them by social services.
The 63-year-old mum and her partner, 65, are “devastated” after bosses stepped in and took the child from them.
As this article goes on to say, the couple used a surrogate mother in her thirties with donated sperm from the elderly man. The article doesn't state why the child was removed, but age was a factor. Clearly, both parents were unable to look after the child.
Time and time again, science has pushed back the "rules" of nature on things such as treatment of disease, but if someone cannot naturally give birth to a child in their sixties, should they be allowed to go down the IVF route? By the time the child reaches adulthood, both parents if they are still alive by then, will be in their eighties.
Should there be a cap on how old someone can be to be a parent, or it that far too arbitrary with continual advances in medicine meaning elderly people are living longer and healthier lives than ever before?