Opinion: While men like Robert De Niro are the Duracell bunnies of the reproductive world, women that fall pregnant over 35 are seen as selfish, or just too old

Robert de nero poses at an event before he had baby number seven

‘Aged man procreates’ - not something you might think necessarily newsworthy given it’s been happening for millennia. 

However, this particular man is Robert De Niro who, at the age of 79, has just welcomed his seventh child. This child will belong to a blended family with half siblings old enough to be their parent or even grandparent with ages spanning most decades from the fifties down.