ACF, if nature didn't intend there to be 55 year old fathers, there would be a male menopause [not the silly psycho one they talk about, but an actual real one with an off switch].
Jay, albeit a sample of one, seems to me to show that it's a good idea to have babies when 53. I wouldn't mind being a father again at 54 - I would not throw the infants in the air though [unlike in the past] as I would probably drop them. With clicking tendons, weak eyes, puny muscles, slower reaction times and general confusion, it's time to become more careful.
Being born to a 54 year old is better than not being born.
There are also merits. When younger, I was at work most of the day. Now, in my dotage, I could spend all day with them, showing them what makes the world tick, taking them places and helping them with things instead of leaving it all to an overloaded mother and uninterested teachers in a repressive and suffocating education system.
By the time I'm too old to be of much use, they'd have taken charge of themselves anyway.
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