Pound Pup Legacy

There's a fine-line between age and maturity.  However, how old is "too old" to parent a young child?

"Older Parents" young at heart adopting children who were birthed by teen mothers may be at a disadvantage in ways many are not willing to discuss openly.

For instance, hub-man's parents were in their mid-forties when he was born.  In his words, it was a huge source of embarrassment for him, knowing he had parents that looked like grandparents.  He chose to marry a woman much younger than him to be the mother of his children.  He is 52; I am 39.  Age is a factor in the sense that he worries about not being around to see his children get married.

True, lots of couples opt to delay the start of families... but given the fact that there are young mothers being told they should offer their babies to older couples more able and capable of providing loving stable homes for babies, I wonder how wise this moral message is, considering the rate of divorce (and effects of menopause on a woman) these days, too?