首页
登录
职称英语
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
游客
2024-10-17
37
管理
问题
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。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3804800.html
相关试题推荐
AletaSt.Jamesisthelatestcelebritytoenterthe"Areyouevertooold
AletaSt.Jamesisthelatestcelebritytoenterthe"Areyouevertooold
AletaSt.Jamesisthelatestcelebritytoenterthe"Areyouevertooold
HealthMinisterNicolaRoxon’slatestproposalthatpatientsbeallocatedto
HealthMinisterNicolaRoxon’slatestproposalthatpatientsbeallocatedto
Hislatestmedicalstudysuggeststhathighbloodpressure_______withunhealthy
ThelatestNationalReportonHigherEducationsaysthat[br][originaltext]
Nosooner______apaperonhislatestresearchthanhewasaskedtowriteanothe
Theirargumentsarestrongly______bythelatesttradefigures.A、inheritedB、recr
Whatdoesthenewsitemmainlyreport?[br][originaltext]Thelatesttrend
随机试题
Ingeneral,matterswhichlieentirelywithinstatebordersarethe______concern
Theworldisgoingthroughthebiggestwaveofmergersandacquisitionsneve
Technologiescollapsethedistancebetweenadesireanditsfulfillmentby
为构建固定资产而专门借入的款项,所发生的利息、折价或溢价的摊销和汇兑差额可以计入
地籍数据的多源性体现在( )。A.地籍数据来源的多样性 B.地籍数据调查范围
德尔菲法又称专家征询法,是采用()的方式征求专家意见,从而得出预测结果的方法
35岁,初孕妇,28周妊娠,月经规律,周期28天,B超检查提示,双顶径为56mm
已知设计水文条件下排污河段排放口断面径污比为4.0,排放口上游氨氮背景浓度为0.
下列费用中,应计入施工机械台班单价的有()。A、折旧费 B、日常维护费 C
A.吗啡 B.哌替啶 C.小剂量麦角新碱 D.催产素静脉点滴 E.苯巴比
最新回复
(
0
)