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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

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Does anybody else find it kinda creepy that sixty-two year old Chris Dodd has two daughters aged 5 and 22 months?

posted by mikevotes at 9:59 AM

8 Comments:

  • Obviously an attempt to appeal to the "Family Values" groups: Dodd walks the walk on the marriage-is-for-baby-making value.

    Maybe it's my age -- though I'm still under 50 --, but I'm more heartened than creeped out by the possibilities!

    By Blogger -epm, at 11:11 AM  

  • I don't know why it strikes me as so odd.

    I don't actually think it's the age of the children, although dad may well be dead before they hit college, it's more that this guy has a wife that young.

    I don't know how old she is, but those 20 year younger marriages always seemed kind of distasteful to me.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 11:22 AM  

  • I don't know... I think the creepy thing for me is that the "biology" still works. I just have an image of 60+ people out of commission and reliving the glory days of parenthood as a grandparent. And who knows, with the advances in medicine he just might be around to see the 22 month child graduate college after all?!

    By Blogger The Law, at 11:52 AM  

  • Well, thinking about this today, I keep thinking about Tony Randall who supposedly fathered a child while in his 80's.

    And as a side not, just throwing this out there, have you ever noticed that the antiabortion people never say a word about fertilization technology.

    In my understanding of their position that would be tampering with the will of god as well, no?

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 1:55 PM  

  • I guess he's a dirty old man.

    By Blogger Handsome B. Wonderful, at 5:54 PM  

  • That's what I was thinking.

    I don't know the backstory, though.

    Second wife? Intern? lobbyist?

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 6:38 PM  

  • From a woman's perspective, I find this a little disturbing in that I consider it selfish to have a child that late in life. Even if he lives to be quite old, I think he may well deprive his children of the energetic dad that they deserve. I also see it flying in the face of the family values thing for the same reason. I am not knocking older men, it is just a fact of life that he is unlikely to have the same amount of energy as a somewhat younger father would. He may be alive but how many teenagers want a father who is in their 80's? Also, he is in a profession that makes it somewhat hard to be a hands-on father. I might go along with it more if the old father were retired and committed to spending time with his children.

    By Blogger Ptelea, at 8:49 PM  

  • I had a friend when I was young whose father retired at 65 when the kid was about 5.

    The years from 5-10 were wonderful, but after that his dad couldn't do anything. I remember him coming to the basketball games with his oxygen.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 9:52 PM  

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