60? Holy crap that really is more like a grandpa. My granddad was 64 when I was born, and he was the only male figure in my life for a big chunk of time, but yeah there's really not much you can do with a rambunctious boy at that age. You're already closing on 80 when they're a teen. So yeah it's like having a granddad, but even then they can't really impart any pearls of wisdom since by that time (if they haven't developed Alzheimer's or dementia) they can't do anything but sit on the recliner watching Dallas reruns or whatever.

Deferring childrearing to so late in adult life's really fucked with tons of kids. Hell my mom was 39 when I was born. I have a half-sister my mom had 15 years before I was born; guess which of us got the autism. There's no telling how many peope have issues that could've been lessened or avoided entirely if their parents actually had kids when we're biologically supposed to.

60? Holy crap that really is more like a grandpa. My granddad was 64 when I was born, and he was the only male figure in my life for a big chunk of time, but yeah there's really not much you can do with a rambunctious boy at that age. You're already closing on 80 when they're a teen. So yeah it's like having a granddad, but even then they can't really impart any pearls of wisdom since by that time (if they haven't developed Alzheimer's or dementia) they can't do anything but sit on the recliner watching Dallas reruns or whatever.

Deferring childrearing to so late in adult life's really fucked with tons of kids. Hell my mom was 39 when I was born. I have a half-sister my mom had 15 years before I was born; guess which of us got the autism.