Clay Aiken to be a Daddy! — Page 2

Eww. Why, God? Why?

Why do it? Well, she's his friend and maybe she wanted a child before she got too old to have one and he was doing her a favour. And it's not like he's ever going to get married and have kids the old fashioned way. It happens all the time.

If she can get pregnant she's not too old.

The fact that she's David Foster's sister proves that it has nothing to do with business . . .

This is just too ridiculous for words.

I'm hoping this is part of the Cubby Bernstein thing. Right? It's a Xanadu promo?? Please?

And there's the fact that her child will be graduating high school when she's almost 70. I had a friend in high school with parents that old and it was really stressful for her. It really seems selfish to put a child through that simply because a 50 year-old woman is having a mid-life crisis. Adopting an older child or becoming a Foster parent would be more responsible.

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Oh I know all about the risks of having a baby later in life, and of course it's better both for the mother and for the child if it happens when the woman is younger, but older women (and nobody seems to know her actual age, I've seen various estimates, 50 being the oldest) have kids all the time with no problems. And I'm sure - assuming the story is even true - that by now they will be aware of any potential problems. I think Clay's mother must have had his younger brother in her 40s, so he would probably be able to talk to her about any risks involved.

j*, maybe he did it to be a good friend and because he himself wanted a child and he doesn't care what everyone else thinks?

WHAT!? Oh my good lord, I hope this is true because if it is it is HI-larious!!

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Clay is too pure and wholesome to drink the devil's water.



A good top daddy's, however, is probably fair game.

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according to the extra rumor control, it's true.

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I know it's not what you meant, Addy, and it's nothing personal, but I don't really think that just because some of us like it up the butt means we have to approve of every last bit of lunacy out there. Besides, what they've done is totally legal, and no states are out there trying to enact laws to prevent this from happening. Who is the laugh really on?

For those of us who do things society doesn't accept, we're often derided for the detrimental effect we'll have on the "children." As was already pointed out before, I'm not sure a parent who'll be a senior citizen long before this kid gets out of grade school is necessarily in the best interests of the child.

No one tried to rally us behind those polygamists. The expectation of moral equivalency simply because two different things happen to fall out of the expectation of "normal" isn't fair.

Clay Aiken is a freakshow. He sold his soul to American Idol and its spoils, so much so that he feels he's got to be an 30 year old eunuch in the public eye. He's cagey to the point that its laughable, yet he doesn't seem to get the joke. Now he's inseminated some middle-aged woman with a dude's name. It's a little funny, at least to me. But it's schaudenfraude, I guess, because he really skeeves me out.

Pregnant at fifty - there's more artificial going on than the insemination.

I dunno. A guy fathers a child at eighty and he's virile. I'm sure that there is an age for motherhood where even I draw the line, but I don't think fifty is it. Yes, it's a higher risk pregnancy, but aren't many these days?

I just don't really see the problem here. A woman-man-woman baring his/her pregnant belly on the front of the Star is a publicity stunt.

Maybe this really IS just friendship, even if the denizens of BWW don't approve of the individuals involved.

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