Older fathers on having kids in their 60s and 70s: ‘My time with my son is more limited – and more precious’ It isn’t only the likes of Mick Jagger, Rupert Murdoch and Al Pacino who are fathering children later in life.
Christopher Ennis, 70, from Kent, says he is much more engaged with Séamus, his one-year-old son by his second wife, than he was able to be with his four older daughters – in part by virtue of being more financially secure.
“With my first two children, I raised them how I had been raised, with yelling, spanking and things my current wife refers to as ‘punitive, authoritarian parenting’,” he says.
Joshua from Indiana in the US had just packed his youngest child off to university when his second wife gave birth to their first child.
“My current wife believes in gentle/peaceful parenting, and at first I thought she was full of crap and our two children would end up being entitled brats.
