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Aleta St. James is the latest celebrity to enter the "Are you ever too old
Aleta St. James is the latest celebrity to enter the "Are you ever too old
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2023-11-15
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Aleta St. James is the latest celebrity to enter the "Are you ever too old to have a baby?" sweepstakes. St. James is a singer and self-described "healer" with lots of Hollywood clients. She is also the sister of Curtis Sliwa, the New York radio personality who founded the crime-fighting group the Guardian Angels.
Tuesday morning, three days shy of her 57th birthday, she gave birth to twins-a boy and a girl-at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. The babies were delivered by Caesarean section. Born three weeks premature, they were taken to the neonatal nursery where both were re- ported to be doing well.
St. James is not married. She used an egg made available by a stranger and sperm reportedly donated by a former boyfriend to achieve the pregnancy. In response to media questions about why she had decided to have children at age 57 she responded, "It is never too late. You are never too old. It is just in your mind."
The doctors to whom she paid more than $ 25,000 for the treatments that resulted in her pregnancy apparently did not think she was too old. And her family, as well as a gaggle of reporters, deemed her upbeat answer ( in addition to her healing work, St. James is a motivational speaker) a more-than-sufficient response. Her father, who is well into his ’80s, said that he now has two big reasons to want to keep on living.
It is hard to even raise this question without seeming like a moral busybody. What right does anyone have to challenge the reproductive decisions of another person? But, that line of argument is simply wrong-headed. If decisions as important as when to have children are not open to ethical comment and discussion, then what is worthy of ethical analysis -- decisions about what color to paint the living room?
Let’s think for a minute about what it means to have twins at 57. What it means is that when your twins are about to enter’ high school, say at the age of 14, you are 71. Now I know that there are many grandparents who have successfully raised kids when the children’s own parents could not. But it is one thing for two older people to deal with a difficult situation and make the best of it. It is quite different to deliberately create a situation where a single, 71-year-old parent who has been eligible for Medicare for seven years must deal with twins entering both puberty and high school. [br] The main idea of the last paragraph is _________.
选项
A、to have twins at the age of 57 is a disaster for St. James.
B、most high school students have aged parents.
C、it is difficult for old people to look after their grandchildren.
D、to raise a child when one is too old is not as easy as one has imagined.
答案
D
解析
主旨题。文章最后一段具体提到了高龄生子可能带来的问题比我们想象的要复杂。所以正确答案是D。
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