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Robert Duvall, the 76-year-old actor, has never been a father. He's been married, he's tried -- but in all those years, no kids. So what gives?
Apparently, as told to Details magazine in a recent interview, he's "shooting blanks."
It's not even like he's trying to avoid fatherhood -- telling the magazine that he tried for kids "with a lot of different women, in and out of marriage." He's even thought of adoption -- an option which he and his wife haven't ruled out.
I can't imagine being a new father in my 70s. In fact, at my age, I can't imagine my 70s period. But when your wife is 40 years younger than you are, I guess these are things you have to consider.
Maybe the pressure is coming from the father-in-law, who's looking for some grand kids. Although, seeing as dad is actually younger than the actor/potential father/near octogenarian, chances are he doesn't wield much influence. My guess: the Duvalls won't be parenting any time soon.
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3-20-2007 @ 8:11AM
Nancy Toby said...Yeah, just as I suspected - no outraged comments here about how infertility in people over 40 years of age is FOR A REASON and older people just shouldn't be having children because THEY'RE GONNA DIE!
Double standards? Check.
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3-20-2007 @ 12:01PM
Miss said...Nancy, there is indeed a double standard, and it is warranted. A woman, at some point during middle age, ceases to be fertile. This demonstrates that women, for some reason, are not supposed to reproduce past the age of fertility. THIS IS JUST LOGICAL. Just because medicine permits it, that doesn't make it right to bear children into one's 50's or beyond.
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3-20-2007 @ 2:02PM
Nancy Toby said...Yeah, and if humans were "supposed to" fly, we would have come with a set of wings, too.
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