When we decide to start a family with the person we have chosen as a partner or partner we want it to be forever. But life goes around a lot. A good day, for whatever reason, you shuffle the cards and deal again. And there you are betting on one second round: you become a father or mother again after many years.
You had forgotten what it was to change a diaper or spend sleepless nights, and suddenly you see yourself with a baby in your arms when your older children are almost going to the disco.
A new opportunity
Doubts invade you. Won't I be too old for this? Get pregnant again after so many years? To become a father practically at the age of being a grandfather? How will older brothers take it? A feeling of "who sends me?", But at the same time a strong desire, a need to have children with the new person you have chosen To share the second part of your life.
One day you decide that you want to have a child with that person and form a new family. You are excited about the idea of having a new opportunity to live fatherhood or motherhood.
Is it better father or mother the first or the second time? I imagine that each stage will have its own. The second time, we tend not to make the same mistakes, but new challenges appear.
They say, who have been very young parents and after many years they are again, that the second time you live a more mature and liberated maternity (or paternity). In return, youth has the advantage of vitality, but lack of experience also makes many mistakes. Something that also happens to us, on a smaller scale, to whom we have children with just 5 years apart.
New family models
At the time of our grandparents it was not frequent to divorce, and if they separated, or one of the two was widowed, they rarely returned to form a new family, although some cases I do know.
Today, the new family schemes are much more diverse That a few decades ago. The separations have increased. More and more people marry, have children, separate and remarry (or live together) with a new partner with whom they decide to have children again. Or simply, after an interval of a few years, even if you have not changed partners, the desire to become parents once again emerges.
It is part of our new society in which two families are coupled with total naturalness. Yours, mine and ours are already part of us.
Celebrities who have bet on a second round
A good example of second round is the actor Bruce Willis, 60. He has had two daughters from his first marriage with Demi Moore (52): Rumer, 26, Scout, 23, and Tallulah Willis, 21, and with Emma Heming (36) he also has two daughters, Mabel, 3 and little Evelyn, who just turned one year old.
We can't stop naming Julio Iglesias, our most representative vernacular example, who has followed in the footsteps of his own father who has given him two brothers the age of their children, now 10 and 8 years old.
In addition, Julio Iglesias has bet heavily. He has had a large family both times. From his first marriage to Isabel Preysler he has three older children, Chabeli, who has already done it grandfather, Enrique and Julio and with Miranda, his second wife, has five children: Miguel Alejandro (17), Rodrigo (15), the Victoria twins and Cristina (13), and Guillermo (7).
Do you feel identified? Do you know cases of second maternity or paternity or are you the ones that have bet on the family for the second time? We would love to know your experiences and that you can share them with our readers.
