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Bernie Ecclestone to be a dad again at 89.

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Ginger1982 · 02/04/2020 22:44

Apologies for the link to the Sun but AIBU that this is just ridiculous? That poor child will probably statistically never know his dad.

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PhilCornwall1 · 03/04/2020 07:38

I am sure he is still wealthy, but I don't think the recent wife married a billionaire, however I could be wrong.

His 2019 net worth is 3.1 billion

NaughtyLittleElf · 03/04/2020 08:11

Him and his ex wife are both billionaires, his daughters are millionaires.

Ginger1982 · 03/04/2020 08:12

"I wonder if the mother was single and had got pregnant via sperm donor, would she be called selfish? That's knowingly raising a child without a father and, in most cases, the woman won't be cushioned by billions in the bank. "

Not the same thing at all. As someone who lost a parent at a young age, why would you knowingly put your child through the grief of having a father and then that parent suddenly dying when you're young? And yes I know young people die too, my father was only 43 when he died, but statistically Bernie's got few years left.

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wibblewobblejiggle · 03/04/2020 08:14

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LakieLady · 03/04/2020 08:24

Is he the worlds oldest dad? It must be a record

Wiki tells me that the record is 96!

I find the concept of shagging Bernie Ecclestone even in his youth repulsive, so not especially shocked by this.

LakieLady · 03/04/2020 08:29

And personally my opinion is babies shouldn't be brought into an equation around 50ish

A good friend of mine fathered a child at 52. He took early retirement and has been a SAHD since his daughter was 9 months old.

He's been the most fantastic dad, he's really close to his daughter, he's had tremendous input into her education (he's a very brainy academic type) and his parenting has been a revelation to me. She's got a great realtionship with her mum, too, who took early retirement herself when their daughter was about 12, so she's had both parents around as a teen.

They're so chilled, it didn't cramp her style at all!

Exoffice · 03/04/2020 08:32

yuk Envy

wibblewobblejiggle · 03/04/2020 08:33

@LakieLady cool story. Doesn't change my opinion.

Ledkr · 03/04/2020 08:33

89?? Really Confused

Macncheeseballs · 03/04/2020 08:35

An 89 year old woman with a 44 year old man would most definitely be frowned upon

Totallycluelessoverhere · 03/04/2020 08:37

I know people are repulsed at the thought of somebody so old having sex with his much younger wife but I feel that way about morbidly obese people having sex with their normal weight partners or people who have poor hygiene having sex with anybody. I’m sure I will get criticised for being yuk about morbidly obese people having sex but it’s no worse than being ageist about and older person having sexual with a younger person.

SirChing · 03/04/2020 08:38

Not the same thing at all. As someone who lost a parent at a young age, why would you knowingly put your child through the grief of having a father and then that parent suddenly dying when you're young? And yes I know young people die too, my father was only 43 when he died, but statistically Bernie's got few years left

I see what you mean, but I just think this is more about the idea of a 44 year old having sex with an 89 year old than true concerns for the child. .

Surely better to have a good dad for 5 or 10 years than none at all? Plenty of men divorce women when their kids are that age and never see their kids again. My twat of a cousin did that to his kids. I think his children would have actually been less messed up had my cousin died, because at least that isn't them being rejected.

I just think that If the lady got pregnant naturally, would anyone seriously expect her to abort a child with her husband, that she obviously wants, simply because her husband was old? It's not impossible to naturally gather kids at that age. Charlie Chaplin fathered a child in his mid to late 80s. No IVF in those days!

JonHammIsMyJamm · 03/04/2020 08:41

He is hilariously repulsive

CheriLittlebottom · 03/04/2020 08:41

I'm saying them having sex is disgusting, to be honest. She was a baby when he was in his mid forties. Gross.

wibblewobblejiggle · 03/04/2020 08:43

Surely better to have a good dad for 5 or 10 years than none at all?

You can't be a good dad in your 90s.

I mean....you could ish to your 60ish children. After 6 decades of parenting.

But you can't be a good dad to a newborn, toddler and child.

SirChing · 03/04/2020 08:45

@CheriLittlebottom At least that's honest 😁

@wibblewobblejiggle You can't be a good dad if the closet involvement he had is via a Turkey baster. Yet women who choose that route are supported here. Odd.

SirChing · 03/04/2020 08:48

Can I clarify that if this baby was conceived naturally (unplanned or not), that posters are saying that, despite them being married and the woman obviously wanting the baby, she should have had an abortion because of an age gap?

GingerBeverage · 03/04/2020 08:49

Why are people assuming he will be a good father? Does he have form for being an good father?
Why are people assuming they will be rich? Perhaps she signed a pre-nup type agreement.

It's a completely natural reaction to revile this situation of an extremely elderly person having a baby because we innately know the risks it carries (genetic problems, death).

And comparing it to older people having sex without procreating is deliberately misleading. Not the same thing at all.

A woman using a sperm donor would have the benefit of a raft of genetic tests, a far safer and more caring option.

tl;dr gross

wibblewobblejiggle · 03/04/2020 08:50

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SomeoneInTheLaaaaaounge · 03/04/2020 08:50

Rank

TheVanguardSix · 03/04/2020 08:53

Nobody is saying them having sex is disgusting.

Fuck that with bells on! I'm calling it disgusting! Grin
I imagine it's like an origami penis at this point.

mochajoes · 03/04/2020 08:54

Does anyone seriously believe he is the genetic father at 89?

I was wondering this & the quality of sperm declines with age

User202004 · 03/04/2020 08:55

44 and 89? Surely they haven't used their own egg and sperm? That's a risk I sure as hell wouldn't be taking no matter what money I had behind me.

wibblewobblejiggle · 03/04/2020 08:58

no matter what money I had behind me.

I think it was the money ahead of her that was the incentive.

CheriLittlebottom · 03/04/2020 08:59

wibble Grin

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