Boris Johnson -are there challenges in being an older Dad

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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

Starmer hasn't had a string of children with women younger than his current children! It's so tacky. Can't imagine my DCs feelings if DH suddenly ran off in his fifties and pushed out 4 kids.
Also who is criticising his children? They are the victims.

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

This is illogical? I have no idea what his dc look like, does he post them on social media? Also no one is criticising the dc...

We don't even know their names, do we? Just that he has a teenaged son and daughter?

But isn’t it different with Starmer’s wife that she was with him before he became an important politician? Carrie got together with Boris when he was well known, and also put herself out there, so is going to get more attention

The serial affairs, the lying (not just as a politician)? The inability to admit wrong doing?

It's important to remember that he wasn't ousted because of Covid, he was ousted because Tory MPs were sick of him.

I also think there is no way Theresa May or Rishi Sunak could have got away with having a string of affairs and 9 - 10 children. Just as Barack Obama couldn't have.

Also re: 'loving fatherhood'

1). Affairs are time consuming - he was either skiving off work or spending time with his mistresses when he could have been spending time with his first 4 children.

2). He didn't even acknowledge one of his children until forced to do so.

presumably pretty healthy

A pretty massive presumption. Have you seen the man?!

The AncestryDNA finds for that group of siblings would be revealing

BJ seems a lot more involved with this crop than the ones with 2nd wife. Which is a good thing.

Bit I kinda think (controversially, admittedly) that his ways kind of make him "human".

I also think there is no way Theresa May or Rishi Sunak could have got away with having a string of affairs and 9 - 10 children. Just as Barack Obama couldn't have.

Definitely, is it the posh thing and how so many are subservient to that?

I think we might have different perspectives on what it means to be 'human'.

For instance, Liz Truss might be mad as a box of frogs, but I am pretty sure she doesn't have secret children.

The pictures of Carrie and her new baby are lovely ,she looks radiant.Surely a picture to warm the heart? Boris wasnt perfect but he doesnt deserve some of the nasty comments on here.Lots of wealthy older men have younger wives. Like it or not ,that is nature .His children will be well provided for financially ,and Carrie is young and healthy.Boris is very charismatic ,and attractive to women .Judging by some men on here he is a saint! People saying men are "picked" by women are way off the mark. We hear daily on MN and elsewhere, of high achieving well off women "settling" for lazy men .Workshy, and not engaged with their families at all!

It’s obviously the white male thing.

See also Trump who has kids from multiple mothers although far less so.

It’s true, very sadly

and there are 10 children

as for those speculating on why he he was so repellent he had to attract these women power is a great aphrodisiac

Absolutely.

It’s disgusting and hypocritical how the so-called “family values” politicians and voters that tormented the squeaky clean Obamas got behind Trump.

You mean Boris who said to someone at an event about his current marriage that he had 'buyer's remorse'?

"Bonding over a love of Shakespeare' when London Mayor, for example.

Why just him?

There have been more politicians than just them two!

Fwiw I have an opinion on all politicians with politics I don’t agree with, anyone who’s had an affair that’s known about, anyone who’s done something criminal we know about and anyone who lives a life I don’t agree with who have chosen to make that life public and therefore open to discussion.

That’s positive or negative opinion.

The same way people will have an opinion on any actions I make in public and anything private that I choose to indulge to them.

edited to change too to two 🤦🏼‍♀️

Yes this. I find it mine boggling Carrie is prepared to turn a blind eye to all the stories.

"Boris wasn't perfect but he doesnt deserve some of the nasty comments on here"

Perhaps you aren't familiar with his past.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/inside-boris-johnsons-grubby-love-32286671

This is just the affairs. I know it's a tabloid article, but that is the point - where were his children while all this was grabbing headlines?

I'm not surprised that Carrie Johnson is always travelling. His cheating is pathological. Why would she trust him alone?

No, the pictures don't warm my heart.

I think about all the people who led solitary lives with new babies, while Boris 'misunderstood' the rules he announced to everyone else.

She’s outrageously ambitious and will likely be the one to skip away to the nearest Cotswolds power guy once Boris has no political currency left. She’s not even 40 yet. Taking into account her own dysfunctional childhood (product of an affair, father remained married to his wife) she’s making a decent job of it with these four but I can’t see Boris as being enough for her long term.

(& aren’t there 11 at least? Charlotte Owen, the art dealer’s daughter and Jennifer Arcuri’s very blonde child who holds a super injunction on reporting)

Also - for those with a modicum of remaining sympathy for the liar Johnson on this thread, I do recommend the easily digested British Scandal podcast series about him just to refresh your memories about his past.