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This is such an interesting question and almost impossible to answer. There are no gaurantees in parenting no matter what the age. My family is blessed with great genes. We look and feel young up into our seventies, eighties and nineties. All of my grandparents lived to almost a hundred and chances are my siblings and I will exceed their ages.
Therefore, I suppose someone with a family history like mine could adopt or give birth at sixty and raise the child well into aldulthood without much worry. My parents had me in their forties and are now in their seventies. They are still as cool or uncool as they ever were and as involved in my life as anyone else's parents.
However, as a new adoptive mom at 30, I still feel that it is important to have a plan, just in case, regardless of age. Anyone can have an accident or a sudden severe health issue. Not that my partner and I sit around and worry about our health or dying, but once our daughter came into our lives, we made wills and designated a caretaker for her just in case. Considering life and death and worst case scenarios is just a responsible part of parenting, in my opinion.
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