MADRID – Spanish social services have no plans to take custody of the 2-year-old twins of the oldest woman to give birth, who died last week at 69, an official said Thursday.
The Diario de Cadiz newspaper reported Thursday, without citing a source, that the children will be raised by their godfather — an adult nephew of their mother Maria del Carmen Bousada.
The children's rights ombudsman's office of the southern Andalusia region would not confirm that information, but said there was no need for the state to take custody because the children had living relatives.
Bousada, who was not married, gave birth to the boys in December 2006 after undergoing in vitro fertilization at a California clinic. She deceived doctors there by telling them she was 55, its age limit for applying that procedure to single women.
Her brother told a local newspaper that she had been diagnosed with a tumor shortly after giving birth.
Her death set off a global debate on the ethics of fertility treatment and late motherhood.
Bousada said shortly after their birth that she had no fears of dying with young children because her mother had lived to be 101.
Calls to Bousada's relatives went unanswered Thursday.
She lived in an apartment in Puerto de Santa Maria, a town near the provincial capital Cadiz, and neighbors remembered her as a discrete woman who would take the boys — named Pau and Christian — to a nearby nursery center everyday in a two-seater stroller, the paper said.
Bousada would sometimes do this on her own, and other times with a younger woman who helped around the house, the paper said.
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