"Whatever a gorilla mom would do with her baby is what we have to do with this baby, " said Ron Evans, the zoo's primate team leader and one of Gladys' human surrogates.
But if mothers are to be free to terminate a pregnancy when they do not want the baby, why should they not do so if they do not want a baby of a particular sex?
The industriousness of the elderly has little to do with a jobs boom and more to do with the baby boom, she argues.
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" For the record, I do not speak to my dog in baby talk, nor do I, when calling her, say, "Come to Mama.
"There are special mother and baby units across the country where they do this treatment which means mother and baby can be together, but unfortunately there is not one of these units in the whole of Devon or Cornwall", she added.
When he re-enters the workforce, he says, he'll do so as a baby photographer.
Now, look what this refurbished baby can do, even in a miserable economy.
Will being given technology tools that make law-enforcement-style surveillance so easy a baby could do it transform us (more than Facebook already has) into a society of spies?
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The game, called Fast ForWord, is meant to improve phoneme recognition by stretching out and accentuating each sound, much as mothers do when they talk baby-talk, until the child's ear becomes more attuned to the different phonemes.
With grandchildren, parents and grandparents need to come to an agreement about what household rules the kids need to follow, how much disciplining the grandparents will do and how much baby sitting they are willing to take on.
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If social services do take away her new baby, then it will become Child D.
In addition, many women do not lose all their baby weight, which increases the risk of obesity and obesity-related complications such as heart disease and diabetes.
Mark Zuckerberg will cash out in the very near future within a year, resign from Facebook, have a baby, and do more charitable work like Bill Gates.
Microsoft and Intel would do better to warn their Baby Bell chums about the dangers of missing out on the future, instead of helping them to get round the regulators.
"If you're a very private person, this is probably very hard to do because people are curious and do ask how much the baby cost and whether or not that's one of those crack babies, " Judy Stigger says.
She reportedly told police that she had intended to get the baby back when she was able to pay the midwife, but when she tried to do so the midwife told her the baby had been sold.
The cost of entitlements has been rising vertiginously, and will do so even faster as the baby-boomers retire.
But how do we avoid throwing out the baby with the bathwater?
The marketing business is obsessed with youth, and figures the Baby Boomers (who do like to consider themselves still 25 years old) will respond, too.
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"Women want to do the right thing for their baby, and if the issues are explained to them, they will, " says Kathleen Rice Simpson, a nurse-researcher who conducted the study.
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"Maybe in her culture that was the normal thing to do, to come and feed the baby and help me and be the nanny, " she says.
"Baby blues, " which do not require medical attention, can include mood swings, sleep problems, irritability, crying, anxiety and sadness in the first couple of weeks after birth.
For example, a few years back, the American Association of Retired People recognized that baby boomers wanted little to do with the geriatric tone set by its publication, Modern Maturity, let alone its entire organization.
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It was thus important to recognise the "positive support" of grandparents, but not to exploit them "so that they do not get left 'holding the baby' because they look like a cheap solution when parents run into trouble".
For now then, grandkids and parents would do well to take advantage of something the baby boomers still seem to hold dear -- balance.
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