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Friday, February 13, 2009

Octuplet Mom: She Asked For It, She Got It

Most people know by now the story of Nadya Suleman who recently gave birth to an amazing 8 kids. She already had 6 kids before giving birth to the 8 bringing her to an astounding total of 14 kids. Kids are a great thing if you plan for them in advance and make sure that you are in a stable enough situation to run a family. From reading through some news stories I have serious questions about whether or not Nadya Suleman was prepared to raise this kind of a family.
Nadya Suleman visited a fertility clinic where she was artificially inseminated prior to giving birth to the octuplets. She did not visit the fertility clinic because she had any kind of issue getting pregnant, as we can see from her previous six kids, but instead due to the fact that she was divorced and did not have a partner to father the children. So now what we have on our hands is a single mother on her own attempting to raise her 14 kids. I do mean that she is on her own as her own mother said, "She already has six beautiful children, why would she do this?" and continued to say, "I'm struggling to look after her six. We had to put in bunk beds, feed them in shifts and there's children's clothing piled all over the house."
So I was already questioning the responsibility level of Nadya when I heard she was attempting to raise eight children as a single mother. I further questioned her responsibility when I read that taxpayers are already providing her with $490 a month in food stamps. How could a person even consider having more children when they are strugling enough as it is with the six children they already have? Having one more kid is not a good idea but having eight more kids through the in vitro fertilization process is a preposterous one.
People in California are upset and rightfully so. Some of their hard earned tax money is going to someone who abused the system. I am concerned about the kids as well because it is hard enough to raise a family of three on your own as a single mother but I don't think that it is possible for a single mother on food stamps to raise 14 kids. I believe that the funds currently going to Nadya should be cut because anyone who abuses the system in the way that she has done is not deserving of assistance from the public.

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