Old Parents, Part Two

When Elizabeth Edwards died recently, I couldn't help thinking about how she was leaving behind two young children who were born—thanks mega doses of hormones, painful in vitro technology, and probably some very expensive donor eggs—when she was 49 and 51 years old.

Now those two kids, ages 10 and 12, are left with no mother and a sixtysomething self-absorbed philandering father. When it comes to children, maybe we should listen to our bodies more and our egos less.