Nadya Suleman has no husband, no job, no prospects, but she does have fourteen children:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The California mother of newborn octuplets said on Monday she was counting on God to help provide for her family but acknowledged that she already was “struggling” financially to raise her first six children[…[
Divorced and living with her mother in suburban Los Angeles, she said all 14 were conceived with in vitro fertilization from a single sperm donor, identified only as a friend
Now Suleman’s fourteen children do have a father, refered a merely a sperm donor. Well this anonymous has fathered foureen bastards. I think it hire time this the male bastard breeder to start supporting his own chldren. and for the the female bastard breeder to get her tubes tied before she give birth to any more bastards. What say you?
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February 11th, 2009 at 17:15
Following my own observations about opinions, I’ve been biting my tongue on the backlash of opinions being shared the world over about this mother of 14. I’ve been waiting to finalize my thoughts until we had a chance to hear directly from the horse itself, so to speak. Finally, Dateline has given us the opportunity to hear from Ms. Suleman herself.
Having listened to the interview it’s difficult to keep one’s opinions quiet. While I have opinions about her already having 6 children and not being married and then adding to her family, I don’t think it’s my place or anyone else’s to make judgments. But I stop cold when I learn that she has NO INCOME and is living off food stamps, student loans, disability and the goodness of her parents. (Interestingly, her own mother’s interview certainly comes off as though they share the world’s disgust.) It’s not as though this was some accident, Ms. Suleman chose to have IVF and to keep all 8 babies.
Listening to Ms. Suleman speak about providing both emotionally and financially for her brood, it becomes quite clear that she isn’t living in reality. Without dissecting the selfish reasons for which she chose to have so many children or the risks she took of leaving her first six without a mother, I’ll stick to the financial and emotional issues.
How can one think that her decision to have these children is anything short of emotional and financial ignorance? Given that she lives with her parents, where there are a total of 9 people crammed into 1,500 sq. ft. of space, how does she expect to cram another 8 into that space? This is certainly not fair to the children or her parents; and one has to question whether that many people in that space is even healthy.
In reading the financial analysis of the basic costs of diapering, feeding, and transporting to doctors and eventual childcare costs alone, it is obvious that without government assistance or relying on donations she is not capable of providing for these children. Some have compared her to Angelina Jolie (both for looks and desire to have a large brood). Here’s the difference as I see it…Angelina and Brad can afford to provide for their children as well as afford to secure the additional help that it takes to raise such a large family – not to mention the fact that they are providing homes for existing homeless children.
Even if companies and people step up to help (for the benefit of the children – not because of her), her ability to provide the emotional and physical attention these children will need and deserve is highly questionable. We don’t let people have obscene quantities of cats, dog or pets in a home that is not equipped to handle them. It appears as though cramming that many people in the existing home borders on the same obscenity. A home of 1,569 sq. ft. divided by 17 people provides a total of 92.3 sq. foot per person!
No one wants these kids to suffer. Yet how do we as a society help provide for these children’s needs without reinforcing this woman’s selfish indulgence and encouraging others to act so irresponsibly?
February 12th, 2009 at 8:39
Certainly, that is an issue in light of the time tested concept of what you financially support, you get more of.
February 11th, 2009 at 18:24
In general, I am judgemental,and believe that we as civilizied humann beings have a duty to by judgemental. The road from savage from savage to civilized member of a functioning society can only be traveled by being judgemental.
We are all judgemetal. So admit it. Others merely deny.
As to Suleman, I has a social thing the weekend after all the weekend after the birth, and was taken aback by the emotional responses the case generated. As I become more aware of the fact, I too become for opionated.
Suleman reflects a lot of what is wrong with our current society. We have a father of eight with utterly no legal obligation to pay for his own children. The IVF doctors ought required to pay for the damages he as caused.
Maybe the World is not perfect, but it sure won’t get any bette4 if are afraid to pass judgement on it.
As for the children, they will suffer. There situation is imposssible. Sad, but true.
February 11th, 2009 at 22:30
the woman needs to be spayed, her doctor needs to lose his license, and the kids need to be adopted out.