Have you ever watched the news and saw a story that just made you think, "wow what was that person thinking?!" Well I saw Dateline Tuesday night and they had a story about a lady named Nadya Suleman that had octuplets through Invitro fertilization. This may have not been such a big deal to anyone because this kind of thing happens all of the time these days. What has so many people in an uproar is the fact that this lady has six other children, is single, and does not have a job. Her only source of income is her excess financial aid from her student loans from going to college. She does not want to take charity from other people, and thinks that she can make it with her financial aid. She is living with her parents in not that big of house and feeding her children with food stamps. Much of the debate is weather the mother will be able to support her now 14 children.
It is not my place to judge this women. It is her right as an American to have as many children as she wants. We have Social Services that will take these children if they feel the mother is unfit to provide for them. I am sure that very few of the people condemning her for having the children do not have a degree in Social Services and do not fully understand all of the options a mother has for taking care of her children. If she does make it through college she will need to find really good job that will pay a lot because finding daycare will be very expensive with that many kids. Through my experience you always need to have a back up plan, and from hearing Nadya’s story it does not seem like she has “plan B” and that is not a very responsible way to be raising 14 children. I hope in my heart that the next headline is not about the death of a women and her 14 children.
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Living on her financial aid? Oh my, I missed that part of the story. Are you joking? I can barely support my own self on financial aid, let alone 14 other children for that matter. You have a good point, giving her every right to have as many children as she please and also that if something bad is to happen Social Services will step in. Daycare, she'll probably have to go to three different day cares, because one day care will certainly not take all 14 children. It is one massive day care bill, besides the food bill she is going to have to pay there is also the diapers, the clothes, and just the random accessories they ALL need. Mind boggling, that all I can say.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your assessment…What was she thinking? Why would a woman intentionally bankrupt her parents, put her current children’s health at risk and force us, the U.S. taxpayers, to pay for her obsession with children.
ReplyDeleteWhen my daughter and her husband were thinking about having children we spent a great deal of time talking about what traits make a good parent. I listened and asked her questions like “do Jay and I make sure you had everything thing you needed?” “Were you able to go to all of your social events, attend every softball game, practice your instrument?” she would answer yes to all of may questions.
Finally I said, what is the one trait a parent can never have? She was taken back for a few minutes and then said – I think you are trying to tell me that a parent can never be selfish and should be selfless. She was right!
This woman who had these children is completely selfish – not a good trait for a parent!
This is crazy. I can not imagine how a woman could possibly raise 14 children off of financial aid and pay for college. She must be either getting a lot of help from her parents or she's getting a lot more aid than me. I get enough to pay for college and month of rent and that is it.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that she got pregnant through invitro fertilization still shocks me. If you are in college, single, and already have six children then in my opinion getting yourself pregnant is very wrong. I don't know how she is going to be able to support herself through college plus raise 14 children without a job. It is very irresponsible to do that to your children on purose. I hope it works out for her and her family.
Honestly, this woman makes me very mad and every time I hear about I get upset. I think that it’s wonderful that she wants to be a mother, the question I have is “isn’t six children enough?”. I think that there should be something done to set an example, there are so many couples out there with good jobs that are able to support a family that are unable to have children. Yet it is extremely difficult for someone to adopt a child. My aunt and uncle adopting there 2 kids and each kid took over a year for them to be my aunt and uncles legal child, and before they were able to adopt they had to get their foster care license.
ReplyDeleteInvitro Fertilization is such an ethical issue as well as adoption. But why should they be different? It’s hard to know if it was “right” for that doctor to allow a single mom of six with no steady income who is in school the chance of having more children. This whole situation makes me sick and my heart goes out to those children.
i think that there should be some type of limit of how many kids these people are having that are dueing invitro fertilization. In most of the cases that i hear it is a single parent and she already has 3 or 4 children that she cannot support without all of the government help. I wonder how she has time for school, i would think 14 kids would be a full time job anyway.
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