HUMAN MENOPAUSE IS EARLY IN LIFE SPAN

A study by the Universities of Exeter and Cambridge has found a link between killer whales, pilot whales and humans -- the only three known species where females stop breeding relatively early in their lifespan.  Click here. In the unlikely event that post-menopause oarenting doesn't ring your bell, click here.

Typically, one person's research contradicts another's.  The previous researchers excluded that guppies seem to have a menopause, as well.  Reported on here..  "A new study

(2006) finds that guppies experience menopause just like humans and (some) other animals. The study is the first demonstration of menopause in fish and raises the question of why some female animals live beyond their fertile years at all."

With modern medical advances, there is recent craze for childless old ladies to undergo in vitro fertilization to have babies far beyond menopause, The first, I believe was a woman in her sixties.  In 2008, a 70 year old woman in India has given birth in a country where childless women are not given an equal status as mothers. Read here.

On 6/21/2010, a 68 year old Indian woman gave birth   "The mother, Rajo Devi, had been trying for 50 years to get pregnant with her 72-year-old husband, who had failed to become a father in two prior marriages. It was undetermined whose egg and sperm were used in the treatment, the newspaper reported."  I always thought the trying more fun that getting the actual human to raise.  Being of U.S. culture, I can't help but wonder why they didn't quit when they were ahead!

On June 22, 2010, another Indian woman gave birth to twins and one in her late 60's had triplets.  There has to be a DSM diagnosis for this but I doubt everyone will see it my way!  I've always thought that the beauty of after menopause was looking at babies and being happy you no longer had to think about raising one.  The poor grandparents who are left with their abandoned grandchildren and feel obligated to become parents  to them is bad enough...at least the grandmother didn't have to carry them for nine months.

This proves again..."One size does not fit all"