Mother of the octuptlets !
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I just watched this on the news. She is living with her mother and father and 6 kids in a 3 bedroom house! Her father is going back to Iraq on contract work to help out the family.
I am DISGUSTED to hear that donations are already being sent in. I feel that she should be forced to do this on her own, fail, and have the kids taken away and placed in appropriate homes. This woman is an idiot. Period.
I am DISGUSTED to hear that donations are already being sent in. I feel that she should be forced to do this on her own, fail, and have the kids taken away and placed in appropriate homes. This woman is an idiot. Period.
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I agree...fertility drugs are to be used by parents desperately wanting to experience parenthood for the first time. Not by someone who already has a house full of children. That's just selfish.
And UGH, I'm sick of people saying they didn't expect so many babies after taking fertility treatments. Kate Gosselin said the same thing. By now, you have to know that 5, 6, 7+ kids is a very real possibility, and to expect to only have 1 kid with fertility drugs is naive.
And UGH, I'm sick of people saying they didn't expect so many babies after taking fertility treatments. Kate Gosselin said the same thing. By now, you have to know that 5, 6, 7+ kids is a very real possibility, and to expect to only have 1 kid with fertility drugs is naive.
did you guys read the article up on Yahoo...she DID take fertility treatments (again WHY, and who paid for those?) the grandpa says...and they are moving to "their other HUGE house" when the babies come home and no one will be able to find them (media)...somehow I bet they'll let those wanting to give them MONEY, find them.
I say take the doctors to task. There is NO legitimate reason to prescribe fertility drugs to a woman with six children. She's obviously proven that she's more than capable of having children on her own. I think that's as much of an ethical foul-up as prescribing hydrocodone to a person who has no pain. It's practically drug abuse.
That being said, as long as this woman isn't on government assistance, I'm not going to throw a fit over it. I think it was a bad decision made for shady motives (like money-making), but I don't care as long as it's not *my* money funding it.
I think it's kind of interesting how modern society has fits over people with so many children. Just 50-70 years ago, it wasn't uncommon at all. I very regularly see obituaries where the person either had a dozen or more children, or had a dozen or more siblings. Fourteen or fifteen is also fairly common. I believe the most I've ever seen was a woman who gave birth to 19 children. I've often wondered how families provided for so many children back then.
That being said, as long as this woman isn't on government assistance, I'm not going to throw a fit over it. I think it was a bad decision made for shady motives (like money-making), but I don't care as long as it's not *my* money funding it.
I think it's kind of interesting how modern society has fits over people with so many children. Just 50-70 years ago, it wasn't uncommon at all. I very regularly see obituaries where the person either had a dozen or more children, or had a dozen or more siblings. Fourteen or fifteen is also fairly common. I believe the most I've ever seen was a woman who gave birth to 19 children. I've often wondered how families provided for so many children back then.
yes and many of those children, died young (meaning less than say 30-40) and many didn't even make it out of their early years. And many of those children didn't have actual childhoods as opposed to being basically...free babysitters and labor around the home.
Sounds great...sorry I missed it LOL oh wait I didn't...I pretty much raised my 2 sisters while both parents worked...our relationship suffered mightily for it, too.
I have no issue with other people having as many as they want on their dime...but I hate to see young people not getting the chances they should have because they have to take up their parents slack. That hits a personal nerve with me.
Sounds great...sorry I missed it LOL oh wait I didn't...I pretty much raised my 2 sisters while both parents worked...our relationship suffered mightily for it, too.
I have no issue with other people having as many as they want on their dime...but I hate to see young people not getting the chances they should have because they have to take up their parents slack. That hits a personal nerve with me.
