Boris Johnson -are there challenges in being an older Dad

[mids2019]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14746043/Boris-Johnson-baby-wife-Carrie-announces-fourth-child.html

Boris is 60 and though presumably pretty healthy and wealthy doesn't being 80 when your child is going to be at uni cause challwnges? I always think with these things you are risking a child becoming a care fiver at an early age or having a distorted view of a parent due to a large age gap.

The older Dad option also seems to the option for famous and wealthy men and personally I do not know many women in their bid 30s dating men who by some measures are pensioners.

Good luck to them though

He’s very very wealthy - women have tragically always been attracted to rich powerful men no matter how utterly fucking vile they are, and Johnson is high up on the totally vile scale. 🤷‍♀️

I just hope there’s enough money to keep all of the gazillion kids that Boris Johnson has got with different women because not being rich enough seems to have caused Boris Johnson a lot of his psychological issues in life.

But even if there is enough money to keep them all decently, including the ones he doesn’t acknowledge, (which is a terrible thing to do to a child), then his other kids (of the ones he acknowledges) by which I mean his first family of adult kids, they don’t want anything to do with him apparently because he was such a shit to their mum. Affairs and then leaving her for Carrie while their mum had cancer.

Very upsetting for their Dad to now have gone off to have a whole other family’s worth of kids with his much younger wife now. And as a younger wife, how could possibly you want to be with someone who treats their spouse and family so awfully?

My husband’s dad was 50 when he was born. DH was a second marriage baby.
His dad died when DH was nearly 21 and he regrets never having a relationship as an adult with his father.

They'd spill surely.

That was an interesting article pp posted about Baroness Charlotte Owen.

what is the implication? That Boris was involved with her romantically?

I don’t think they would believe any such thing. To them he’s just their dad no matter how much you loathe him.

OP you have to remember that Boris Johnson is graded on a curve, and acknowledging children is an improvement.

Yes he will be 80 when this child is 20, but increased age will reduce his ability to act in a way that destroys their relationship completely.

Unfortunately for the rest of us, while the Johnsons are very wealthy, they also have a very expensive lifestyle to fund (they really will be cursing VAT on school fees), so he is unlikely to drop out of the public eye.

Weird, incel BS post from @shuggles about online dating.

His ex must be loving her freedom. Whew.

Re: where his money comes from since leaving office: Public speaking, Rich supporters who think he is still politically relevant. (Unfortunately they might not be wrong). Mail column. Massive advance on book (that didn’t really sell).

This.

If you choose to get with someone who has chosen a life in the public eye you can’t be surprised that their life is in the public eye!

Politician's go into the job knowing people will have an opinion on their politics and as an extension of who they are.

Look at the resemblance. The suggestion is not of a romantic relationship.

Made a peer at age 29?! Without little work experience.

She also puts her life in the public eye by having a public Instagram account.

The mother of his first lot of children was his lover when he was married to his first wife. All the women involved (including the mothers of his illegitimate children) and the one(s) who has terminations know exactly who he is. They go there anyway. They are all highly intelligent and educated women.

Weird, incel BS post from @shuggles about online dating.

yep that's why I ignored

She also puts her life in the public eye by having a public Instagram account.

Agree, people who don't want discussion don't have active and open social media accounts

Clearly with zero morals, just like Boris!

I know what you mean . A lot of people on here are only starting their families in their mid to late 30s. I was late 20s. And the difference I feel now at late 30s compared to how I felt then is remarkable. I feel wretched some days and couldn't imagine being pregnant or having a toddler. Let alone at 60.

He could live until he's 100. But he's overweight and likes his wine , it's unlikely. He could be in good health at 80, or he could be riddled with dementia or other chronic health conditions. Not a great card to deal a tiny baby.

But, in richer circles I think it matters less. They have lots of people and resources and privileges around them. It won't replace a parent, but it will mean that in the event of Boris's death , the child won't suffer hardship in all the same ways a "normal " family night.

I do like Boris, and always have. I think him and Carrie genuinely love each other and I think he loves fatherhood. In my opinion, he is the prime minister I felt most happy with.

We all put ourselves out there by having any SM account. Whether it’s a public SM account, friends only or anonymous like MN.

If any of us choose to put something in the public domain we accept someone somewhere may have a negative opinion of what we put out there.

I know when I type on MN some will agree and other won’t and they will say they don’t.

That appointment made a mockery of the HOL appointee system. But I think she is more likely to be related to him in some way: she is the image of the family.

I’ve just checked her attendance record and she does vote so there is that at least.

There are rumours of another affair child from pre-Carrie that he doesn't see...

Children are never fair game.

The wives of politicians who choose to make themselves public figures are a different story.

Fair enough.
As long as you apply that to Starmer's personal life, his wife and children too.

If you're implying I'm a fan of Keir Starmer, then the opposite is true.

As I said above, children are never fair game, so we can rule that out.

As for Starmer's wife, she doesn't seek out publicity and has a much lower profile than Carrie does even now that Boris is out of office. But the shenanigans around her 'gifted' clothes, for example, were definitely a matter of public interest.

So yeah, fair enough.