Although - biologically - I could still be a parent, I've decided that I am too old. (Assuming I got myself into a relationship pretty quickly and had a kid quickly, I would probably be the age my father was when I was born - an old father didn't work for me).
Having read your posts (and also meeting you at the Christmas drinks), Claudio, I'm sure you'd be a really good uncle... and dad if you ever change your mind.
My father was in his fifties when I was born so I was interested in your remarks about older parents. You say it didn't work for you but it, on balance, did for me. My father had more time, patience and experience of fatherhood by the time I and my two brothers came along (we were his second family by his second wife). For his generation he was a remarkably hands-on parent and I think all three of us owe him a great deal.
I suppose the down side was that we knew that he wasn't going to be around for ever and, even though that is obviously true about all parents, it was brought home to us sooner maybe than to most during our "formative" years.
He died in his, actually very youthful, mid-eighties and I think we were prepared for that but the three of us may have a deep seated melancholy which was born of having an older parent that we all look back on with both respect and affection.
The positive side of that is that we are probably more in tune with enjoying the good things whilst they are still around and none of us waste much time on things we don't really enjoy.
So, if you change your mind Claudio, just think of the many positive things you could give to your children.....I think they'd be very fortunate to have had someone like you as their father.
