Shouldn't technology use be logical as well?

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Two days a go, I read an article about a 72-year old lady and a 79-year old man becoming parents to a baby boy through the in-vitro fertilisation (IVF-test tube) technique, wherein the eggs and sperm are fertilised outside the womb, in a test tube. There have been other such cases too. In another case in 2006 - a good ten years back - a 70-year old lady had successfully delivered a baby girl through IVF. And in 2008, a 66-year old lady had given birth to triplets - two boys and a girl.

This couple was desperate for a child and this is nothing short of a miracle in the medical world. The doctors must be like God to this couple and one can only imagine their joy at the eventual parenthood. But, despite all, I feel sorry - I feel sorry for the child. It makes no sense at all to have a child and then not be able to give him a normal childhood. 

I am a mother of a 9-year old, and I can give a solid testimony to how much effort and hard work it requires nowadays to raise a normal, active and enterprising child. And no matter how healthy you are, a 70 or 80-year old cannot match the energies of a parent in his or her 30s. You have to run errands like car pools to various activities. You have to use technologies like Google and Wikipedia to help them with studies and school projects. You have keep on your toes for very basic things as teaching your child to cycle or play badminton or even climb a bouncy. I wonder how these poor parents, who would be 80 and 90 year olds by the time the child turns 10 even, keep up.

I feel pity for the child not just because he might lag behind in all these activities that all other children will take up and all children deserve to take up but also because he just might suffer with low self esteem not being able to match up to his peers. I also feel sorry for the child because even before he grows up, he just might end up as the carer for two people in their very advanced age. And nothing could be more devastating that the burden of this responsibility before he evens understands the same.

May God bless this couple with a long life, and let's not even go into the scenario where he might end up as an orphan even before he is mature enough to handle himself. That would be really sad. I hope the child otherwise has good-hearted and helpful relatives very close to him to help him have a normal childhood. God bless little Arman Singh and may all his 'Arman' come true!