February 10, 2009
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Octuplets and Welfare
We now know that the woman who had the octuplets is receiving “$490 a month in food stamps and three of her first six children are disabled and receiving federal assistance.” Here is the link: Link
So she was receiving in-vitro fertilization to have more children while she was receiving government assistance.
Does it annoy you that your tax dollars are supporting a woman that keeps on having children?
Comments (222)
YES!
WHO CARES !
yes. ugh.
YES!!!!
This lady and what ever dr she went to annoy me. She Is un married and living in a 3 bedroom house with her parents. And now has 14 children.
Yeah, because now I look like a total ass for defending her!
when you put it that way – definately.
First.
In MY personal opinion – if you cannot afford to live without assistance you should not be having children. Medical assistance does not apply because MANY jobs don’t even OFFER it AND it’s flippin’ costly. If you’re a hard worker (and I’m not talking McD’s) you should get medical benefits, damnit. But that’s a whole different story.
You live off food stamps and cash assistance, quit popping out kids. Enough said.
HAHAHAH man her vag must be huge like im talking the babys are just walking out now
yes
I’d be a little bothered by this, for sure…
She’s an ass, and so is the doctor who thought it would be a good idea to implant this irresponsible person with so many damn kids. It’s one thing for my tax dollars to support a woman who desperately needs help and is a single mom, it’s another to support a woman who get and got herself implanted just for the vanity of having as many children as possible without regard for how she was going to support them.
@michealsdianechaos - People who pay taxes care.
Someone kill the bitch. >_>
heck yes it does, and the fact that she tried to equate having all those kids to taking a risk and yielding innumerable rewards…she’s nutty.
Yes, only bc she cant take care of her kids by herself. Even her own mother told her so! She must be a democrat
Shes also selfish, irresponsible, incompetent, and obviosly not so bright.
In-vitro costs like 10k.
obviously*
I don’t care.
Um, YEAH! And if anyone doesn’t have a problem with their tax dollars paying for this disaster, there’s something wrong!!!!!
What ever
@Kevin_is_a_pirate - She most likely had a c-section and that doesn’t really mess up your vagina. Even if she had all those babies through the birth canal.. it like.. sucks itself back up to semi-normal. She could probably use some kegel exercises though!
Yes it does. I figured she would be on it eventually. Let’s not forget that the grandmother is providing most of the care for the children. Yeah she REALLY needed more kids.
@michealsdianechaos - When she intentionally spends that kind of money to produce more kids when she can’t take care of the 6 she has and has to use my hard-earned dollars to pay for it? I care.
@hugxlaughxsmilexlove -D: 14 c sections then it’d be like why even stitch her up just leave her tum tum open and wait for the next one to pop out
Absolutely.
Hahahaha. I think it’s just funny.
My mom has ten kids. Wouldn’t it be funny if she was on Welfare?
@oOBuBBLes711Oo - :Cue eye rolling: Yes because her being a democrat really has anythign to do with his story.
I Don’t want to hear it !
Aside from the government welfare, I do think a woman in her situation really should not be “fixated” on the idea of having children.
Nope.
Yes, these children should be taken away and given to people who want children and can properly provide for them.
Yes, I think she’s crazy.
With that many kids she’d get 2649 € (= 3455 $) plus money for raising them in Germany. So these few dollars seem quite fair.
I’d like to know why in the world the dr. would do the in-vitro treatment on someone like her. Whose paying for that? Whose paying the astronomical hospital costs for these children? Is there a father in the picture for the first 6 kids and does she get support from him for them?
I believe it’s each person’s choice whether they have kids and how many. But with children comes the responsibility to be able to take care of them…especially when you make the decision to have 14! It’s wrong to bring children into the world that other people’s taxes have to pay for. With multiples, especially that many, it’s almost a given that some of them will be disabled. If she didn’t want to see the embryos destroyed, in my opinion she would have done better to donate them to an infertile couple.
I think that those children should now be found homes that can supply for them. She is an idiot and does not deserve any help what so ever.
yeah. that’s not right for her children. and that’s not right to us
That is a lot of kids. But it’s her life.
I’d rather my tax dollars go to a woman who has fourteen kids, but whose husband was killed in combat or disabled due to a work related injury or some other hardship. Some people say she has some sort of mental disorder related to isolation as a child, why didn’t this fertility practitioner advise her to seek psychological help rather than implanting more helpless children???
A bit. You shouldn’t have that many kids if you have to take other people’s money in order to take care of them.
It would be another thing if she already had a bunch of kids and then her family had some sort of horrible accident and lost their income . . . But I’m still in favor of the church or relatives taking care of someone in that position rather than the government.
Think of all those children growing up knowing that half the United States thinks they are mistakes. That’s what’s truly tragic.
I could care less.
Yes. There is no way she could take care of all of those kids even if she had a good paying job. That’s alot of mouths to feed and bodies to clothe. She needs a TV show like Jon and Kate plus 8 and an Extreme Makeover Home. What makes her so bad? Because she wanted a lot of kids? No. She had a dream and said not being married wasn’t going to stop that. I’m not mad at her. More power to her.
Peace.
Yes!!
This annoys me so much! She had SIX, S.I.X. kids even before in-vitro!!!! What the heck was the effing MD thinking? And now she is getting media attention and everyone is “happy” because it’s still “gifts from God.”
Gifts from God???? Mi culo!
Gosh darn, you know how much it’s going to cost to send all 14 of her children to college????
i think it’s completely irresponsible of the mother to be receiving government assistance and to continue to have children.
@Kevin_is_a_pirate - Um.. not 14. With the EIGHT she just had that would make 1 since they were all born at the “same time”
Boys.
@Dare2BDiferentt - Some people can have large families and not have an issue with it. Like the Duggars. I like them.
I would have a large family if I could afford it. But after having three girls.. the teenage years will be costly.
This woman is like the “anti-abortion.”
I am all for big families… heck I have 5 kids.
What I don’t like is that some of this smacks of a publicity stunt…..
Dr trialing new things, woman wanting 14 kids on her own……. I dunno. Something seems a little off.
But who am I to judge hey?
x
@hugxlaughxsmilexlove - The teenage years are the best. Enjoy them while you can (while they’re young and innocent), because they grow up so fast.
Not really. Those kids may go on and lead very successful lives and pay tons in tax dollars and be a great benefit to society. Not to sound horrible but Americans are beginning to become minority’s so I think it’s great that we go forth and multiply. Worst things are happening with our tax dollars.
What bothers me is when I see a person using food stamps while carrying a Coach purse and driving a Suburban.
Yeah….
Especially because I see people at my work who don’t get enough governmental assistance and can’t afford food with just one kid, let alone eight…
How crude and selfish.
Beyond any possible belief.
@Dare2BDiferentt - hahaha, trust me, I know! The young stage is the best but I fear turning 13.. I’m only 21 so I was there not too long ago. I remember me. I don’t want them to be me, LOL!
My oldest is already four.. the growing stages kill me
I miss my babies!
@hugxlaughxsmilexlove - Just love them and be there and they’ll be great.
And they’ll always be your babies, amirite?
Very.
I’m also disturbed how much media attention she is leeching off the world.
@hugxlaughxsmilexlove - but were will all the babies get milk from D: will they have to clone her in a tube?
@Dare2BDiferentt - Definitely! You’re such a smart kid.
@Kevin_is_a_pirate - LOL. *sigh* She’s already getting assistance, I’m going to assume she’ll end up with mountains of free formula as well.
@hugxlaughxsmilexlove - she should have more babys then to get more milk for her other babies
well… it depends. If they only had one child who was perfectly healthy but lonely, no I wouldn’t mind so much. But six? And three that are disabled? That’s a little bit ridiculous. My mom only had four. More than quite a few but not nearly as much as some and we scraped by just fine. My sister and her boyfriend have six kids combined though and they about the same monthly and that annoys me. That fact that I hate my sister aside, the only reason she is on welfare is because she’s lazy and selfish and won’t make sacrafices for her childrens sake.
I think that using welfare to support a woman using fertility treatments to get pregnant when she’s already had children is appalling. I’m with Ron Paul- the entire system needs more reform than the government is willing to undertake.
@Kevin_is_a_pirate - lol. yeah. you’re quite the character, aren’t ya?
@hugxlaughxsmilexlove - :3
Individual tax payment comes to approximently fifty cents.
That’s terrible. What’s her deal!?
she is a trashy nutcase. and yes, it bothers me A LOT.
ARGH!!! It’s the slippery slope of fascism.
If we say that only people with money can have kids, then we’ll start being able to put other restrictions on it. It’s a slippery slope, and the next thing you know, we’re all fascists.
THAT ASIDE… I totally think it’s wrong what she did. Is she PROUD to be on welfare? My family was on it for a while (like 1 – 2 years) while I was out of work and caring for our new baby, but we knew it was TEMPORARY. We never wanted to LIVE ON WELFARE.
This is annoying to me.
she is nuts-they should take them all away from her.
not when you kompare it with the billionz of tax dollarz spent on an illegal war with iraq & the inkredible loss of lyfe rezulting frum that war what this womanz doing iz really tame stuf tax wize
Wait. she’s on food stamps to help feed all to them?!
Yeah. I would be upset about that…..
Yes, but this is a tough situation. Since she already has a bunch of kids and was already on government money I think that’s what makes it wrong. Since she can’t take care of her kids properly on her own then she shouldn’t be able to have more.
I don’t care about this woman or her kids. Leave her be, it will be dealt with in the ashes. I don’t care about Micheal Phelps and I think Kellog’s is making a major mistake pulling the plug on him. What I care about is the ecomony…give me some good news on that instead of telling me that a school district had to shut down a middle school in the middle of the year due to budget constrictions.
In vitro is not covered by most insurance, why was it being covered by her med assistance is beyond me. I have nothing against her poor children, she is being pretty irresponsible though….. the Dr. that performed the procedure needs to lose his or her license……
I have a problem with my tax dollars going to support anyone who doesn’t work.
It doesn’t do much for the stereotype of the average welfare mom, that’s for sure. It is pretty annoying though that taxpayer money is going to someone who couldn’t take care of the children she had, so decided to have more.
that’s so wrong! if she was already receiving assistance before the octuplets then how is she going to afford these new babies? welfare should only help a family for a certain period of time to help them get back on track but people get so dependent on that. There is no way she will be able to afford 14 kids.
Yes. It wouldn’t bother me if she was working and still did not have the means to support her kids, but that’s not the case…
@NightCometh - you better get over that because jobs are going away right and left right now and that is not going to change anytime soon no matter what sort of “stimulus bill” gets passed—YOUR job could be next…
yes.
@FlashFosgitt - @NightCometh -
I’m sure she just meant people choosing NOT to work. People who aren’t even trying to look. Ya know, the lazies.
oh octomom. i heard she was trying to get a 2 million dollar interview from oprah or diane sawyer. so, if they will do us the favor, we won’t have to pay for her welfare checks, i mean babies, after all.
At first I didn’t give a crap. Then I thought..who is stupid enough to have that many kids that they aren’t even partially able to support? Still..oh well. Nothing can be done now. Although, they’ll probably get taken away because the house isn’t big enough or something.
If my tax dollars pay for the in vitro, definitely. I hate to begrudge the kids the money needed to support them. It isn’t their fault their mother is an idiot. I do wish there was a way to penalize her without hurting the kids. I wouldn’t recommend taking the kids from her (yet), but she’s sounding more and more incompetent.
This case just continues to baffle me the more I read about it…
it annoys me that government officials get really good weed and swimmers aren’t allowed to eat cereal .
Oh, just a little bit.
as soon as the story broke that she had 6 other children, I was pissed.
More than you will ever know.
While I think people should be lead by the government to learn to help themselves, I’d rather my tax dollars were helping her than hurting her.
I better not see any Pro-Lifers, or people who love the Duggars, call down this woman. They should adopt her as their poster-child.
Isn’t this exactly what they want? Women popping out as many kids as possible?
Oh – except they should have a husband to pay the bills, and should put the kids to work as soon as they can walk. Then it’s not only okay, it’s wonderful.
What – evah.
Yes, but then again I have problems with people having that many children to begin with.
I’m bothered that my tax dollars are disappearing into politician’s pockets. I’m bothered that more of our tax dollars go toward supporting warfare than education. I’m bothered that my income is taxed (like it would be in a communist nation). I’m bothered that they’re raising the taxes on my house for no other reason than the local govt needs cash, just like I need cash, which leads me to wonder just how they expect me to pay.
I’m not so bothered by this woman. Get your fucking priorities straight people.
her disregard for the lives of her children infuriates me far more than where my tax dollars are going. of course, all kinds of blatant acts of stupidity make me furious. this one’s up there, if not the most horrendously mentally unstable and unsmart thing i’ve seen / heard in awhile. who ALLOWS this stuff to happen with a clear conscience? ugh. i just hope that someone does something for those kids; i doubt she’ll suddenly turn out to be some fantastic mother when she couldn’t even take care of her first batch.
i mean, her lack of common sense would be excusable if she wasn’t involving innocent bystanders, or, in a way, going so far as to exploit her children. but when one person’s stupidity becomes another person’s problem, that’s where i draw the line. x] if only there was a way to get people to keep their idiotic tendencies to themselves, rather than to burden other people with them.
I mean it’s okay with the amount she already has… but I think it’s time to stop.
YES!!!!! And here’s to hoping the delivery doctor quietly tied her tubes when she was through.
Yes.
I also think that she needs a psychological evaluation. SOON.
It is seriously ridiculous that we are paying for this woman. And it is also ridiculous that the doctors would do such a thing, KNOWING she already had a ton of children at home. I think this procedure should ONLY be used for women who cannot HAVE children. This makes me sick.
how could she afford in vitro treatment? that shizz is expensive!
@WakeUpLaughing - I have heard that the same guy (a former bf) fathered all 14! He needs to pay for them, too! The whole thing is absolutely insane!
Yes
Yea. People should be more considerate and NOT have kids when they cannot afford it.
Im pretty sure the whole situation is completely fucked up.
Absolutely. I would like to know how she paid for the invetro. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
uhmm YES I CARE…. esp with the economy these days.. with or without govt assistance -> what the hell was she thinking?!?!?! I’m inclined to believe that she’s trying to start a sweat shop -_-
of course it bothers me.
my community college had to cut back on costs (no more free copies, for example). that money could have been used on mine and your education.
YES.
That does seem quite irresponsible. I mean, I have no objection to say, the Duggars, since they’re supporting themselves. But when you’re already struggling to take care of the kids you have???
I does bother me, but it’s such a gray area. How can you draw a line without creating problems?
I think it was quite irresponsible of her to continue having children when from what the interview with her mother said (in the article) she can barely take care of the six she already has. Having this many children (some with disabilities) will put an extreme stress on both her and the children. I am concerned for the children in this situation because they may suffer because of what their mother is doing. To see tax dollars going to someone who may be about to cause her children some harm (disabled children require a lot of attention to help provide them the resources they need to live with a good quality of living so some children may end up neglected or feeling neglected – that could lead to psycological problems such as depression) is quite a disappointment in my mind.
Yes! I WORK, so this really annoys me that she’s using hard earned tax payer’s dollars to fund her baby factory.
No. But I do think she should stop w/ the invitro . I mean, the Duggars at least pay for their own kids and don’t suck off the government.
Yes it annoys me. It’s also striking how much this chick and Angelina Jolie look alike.Hmm.
But yes, it’s frustrating when I want another baby but don’t see how we can afford it while this chick with spring loaded thighs goes to her dr with the turkey baster and says “Load it up!”
How can someone now be irritated.
Yes. Stupid cow!
It’s not like our Tax dollars aren’t supporting tons of other things that I disagree with. She’s the least of our worries at this point.
@Dare2BDiferentt - thats different, your mom isnt single with no college education, or at least not single.
dan,
i am appalled at her.
I’m all for helping out single mothers with kids, but when you have six kids and receiving food stamps, you would think you would be wise enoug hnot to have more kids. What about all of the other single mothers whose aid that woman’s 14 kids are swallowing?
I probably shouldn’t be mad, but I can’t help it.
a copy of my short blog:
This woman dropped more kids than she has ever dropped shit links.
“LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — The mother of octuplets, whose story has sparked controversy around the world, rejects suggestions that she may not be able to care adequately for all 14 of her children and that her decisions have been selfish.”
Are you kidding me ? Please make my fucking day and tell me you’re joking.
Not only did she already have 6 kids but she has no college education. I do believe 6 kids is enough to have for a single mother but if you got the money for it, hey whatever, that’s your business.
HOWEVER:
If you have 6 kids already and have always want a huge ass beaner-like family then make sure you have the money for it.
In deciding to have two more kids through fertility drugs, she should be aware of the the risk of having more than two children. Knowing that risk or not, she should have waited unti being done with college as opposed to having the estimated/assumed 8+ kids and no education.
She stated that she was not on welfare and that her friends, family and church would help her out.
I don’t know where she gets the money but obviously she doesn’t just pull it out of her ass. It has to come from somewhere. Somewhere it shouldn’t come from.
Another story:
the Duggar family.
17 kids and counting.
Holy fucking shit.
I think they just outnumbered my fellow beaners.
Sparknotes of the story:
They were on birth control, finally decided to have a kid, got back on birth control, then suffered a miscarriage.
They believed the miscarriage was due to the birth control so they decided to leave the number of kids they’d have, in the hands of God.
Since then, they have a kid just about every year and a half.
so many thoughts.
tax dollars, how can some people be just so plain ignorant…just so many things.
Oh, well, my opinion.
i also didnt add this but im adding it now:
fertility drugs/process is for people who dont have kids and want them.
she has money for those but no money for the kids…right.
I enjoyed the interesting comments! Thank you, all. It does bother me, but I’m not sure what the answer is here. Welfare hasn’t worked for years because of this reason. It really bothers me that my grandparents literally did not have enough to live on with my grandfather’s heart medication. If it were not for Welfare, I have no idea where they’d be. So, you have to remember that for every uneducated person like this who doesn’t “get” the program…..there are those who wouldn’t be able to survive without.
In my humble opinion, this woman’s problems started way before the babies came along. It has more to do with her value system and what she’s been taught as responsible, family, and work ethic. Those are things which cannot be legislated. Welfare and government programs really only address the symptoms of this kind of problem.
I figured she’d be getting welfare. I honestly think it’s a dumbass move for her to keep having kids when she can’t even afford the ones she has.
Yes. Especially after hearing her mother publicly speak out against her daughter “I’m here taking care of these six, while shes about to bring home another 8. I can’t do this. She’s going to ruin these kids lives, and mine”
Can’t believe how irresponsible this is…
someone like the courts should take all of them away and give them to me.
Why is she continuing to have children on welfare and have more children. That is all wrong. Wake up courts
I don’t even want to care….
hell yeah! she is simply abusing her privileged ovaries, cause there are many other women out there in the world who are incapable of having their own children, but would love to have their own children and have a stable job and everything else that this babies-obsessed woman doesn’t. she should’ve known BETTER than to purposely have kids, considering the fact that she was fully aware that she was single with no job.
@Ayliana87 - Tee hee. It’s okay
Yeah, it annoys me… but I am not one to judge or condemn others for their (ill-advised) actions. But I will say I think they are ill-advised.
in this case definitely
this in vitro stuff is starting to get a little out of hand.
Just use that federal money to by the lady a shoe and be done with it.
@hugxlaughxsmilexlove - Amen to that.
But, I go further. Even that other family with the eighteen kids disgusts me. Yes, they can afford all their children, and they’re not on welfare. Even so, it’s not right. There’s NO WAY that as parents they can provide all the time and emotional support necessary for 18 children and the myriad of normal situations they might get into. Plus, don’t get me started on the whole overpopulation thing. It’s just a slap in the face of humanity, a blatant lack of consideration towards our planet to have 18 fucking kids.
@oOBuBBLes711Oo - “she must be a democrat”? that’s rude. i’m a democrat, and i plan on never having kids. if i really want a kid, i’ll adopt one.
don’t generalize.
Yes.
@oOBuBBLes711Oo - This woman had the right to welfare, after the first kid. I honestly feel that this country needs a law stating, “To receive government assistance for you (and your children), you must be sterilized”, so as to prevent women like this from taking advantage of the system by having more kids. Those children need to be removed from her custody and placed with either a family member (grandmother most likely) or in foster care, if the grandmother is also unfit. She needs to get a real job or be put in a mental hospital so that she stops bumming off of her kids to make more because that’s exactly what she’s doing. She is effectively abusing these children. This woman sickens me.
I am a democrat by the way.
there’s no law against how many children a woman (or a “man”) can have. it annoys me when people say things like that are annoying! it’s almost the same with abortion! it’s the woman’s choice! it may be selfish, inconsiderate, or just plain stupid, but it’s still her choice!
there are more places that our taxes are going that annoys me even more.
Yes it does. That just pisses me off.
She should have been seeking government assistance for her mental health. The chick is nutter butters. There’s no defense for what she did and she’s defending it anyway. And she believes herself!
@longbraidsandrainbowsuspenders - It’s not her choice if it’s my money.
Also, I think there should be a limit. I think it’s damn good idea.
yes.
the only thing that annoys me is the fact that she’s still liing at home and doesn’t seem to recognize what the hell she’s doing to her children. my mom and dad had/have 10 kids with one on the way and thier struggling but making it through.
I can’t argue with taking care of children who are in need. A person who is currently dependent on the government or others to provide for her current children should not be able to utilize the medical industry to have more children that she won’t be able to take care of. It is different if she was using preventative measures to not allow herself to become pregnant again, but still did. The doctor who provided her with the in-vitro should be held accountable. Maybe he should help foot the bill of taking care of some of her children. As he has part with his error in judgment.
I don’t believe she should be denied assistance, as the children involved are not to blame. I believe she should be monitored and measures are taken to make sure her children are being properly cared for.
Ugh, Yes! I am not against them having children, but if they depend on tax payer’s money to support their kids it’s a really big issue.
I want to say 1/2 if not 3/4 of your commenters aren’t even old enough to pay taxes yet but thats beside the point…
The fact that she was having in vitro fertilization bothers me because not only did she already have kids and was having trouble supporting them, she went significantly out of her way to have even more through an invasive and expensive procedure that she knew would most likely yield a large number of offspring.
Dont blame her kids, dont blame her, shes just a moron and they’re all innocent. blame the us gov’t for not stopping her from getting approved for this procedure and her doctor for allowing it to happen (assuming he was informed on her history).
Who paid for the IVF?
Whoops, didn’t realize I just posted on this too. Oh well. I think shes insane.
@oOBuBBLes711Oo - what the FUCK does being a democrat have anything to do with this? do you just go around labeling people democrats who do shit you don’t like?
i am not a democrat, by the way.
absolutely!
I’m gunna go ahead and disagree with almost everyone commenting. I think that if this is what she wants, then let her have it. Yeah, it sucks that she is recieving help from the government but she is a person in need and thats what welfare is for. Also, she is shopping around for a reality show, much like Jon and Kate Plus 8 and 17 (now 18) Kids and Counting, so she will be making big money soon enough if she goes through with it. Plus, with that kind of science to have babies, they put in a lot of feritilized eggs and ussually only a few survive. Averagely, a doctor would put in 3-4 fertilized embryos if a couple wanted a baby. This woman got 8 so she was either incredibly infertile (but with 6 other kids I doubt it) or she was maybe looking for a se of twins or triplets. I doubt she actually went to her doctor spread her legs and said “8 more, please!” She is obviously having a hard time. Have you heard about her living conditions? I think it was 3 bedrooms, she’s a single parent, and hermother lives with her. What is she going to do? 14 kids can’t sleep in one room. I’m sure she leads a stressful life everyday and people should really just give her a break. On the day of those babies birth, her stress level on a scale of 1-10 went from 6 to 14. I think you know where I got those numbers.
Honestly I think most everyone is missing the point…she had enough money to do the in-vitro, but can’t afford the children that resulted? I don’t think my hard earned money should go to this particular woman. I am not against women having some state assistance with raising children, since I have friends that need the help…but they were smart enought to get their tubes tied in order to not have more. I hate to say it but her mother isn’t helping her any. 14 is too many for anyone, but esspecially a woman that has no intention to care for them herself. If you are planning on having a large family make sure you are able to provide for all their needs.
This is stupid. She should not be going through in vitro if
she can barely afford herself much less the children she already
has. She is purposely getting pregnant and not
taking care of herself and her children. I do have a BIG problem
with just ‘letting this woman have her way’. There are a lot of
things wrong with it. She isn’t caring for her children herself,
she is relying on her children to take care of her [with the financial
suport of the government]. Government assistance is one thing,
but it seems to me this woman is purposely getting pregnant and
disgarding everyone else and their money for her own benefit.
Sure, she has to take care of them, but she lives at home with her
parents and is just collecting government money. And if odviously
wasn’t that big of a deal to her to care for that many children if she
was going through with in vitro. Let’s be serious people, what
are the chances of having that many kids naturally?
It is so annoying! Who decides to have 8 more children after they already have 6 and not know how they are going to support them? Besides the fact that $400 a month in CA will not support 14 children.
And to find out that she has disabled children who need a lot of extra care is frightening. She should be devoting her time to them. Plus, to see the conditions they all live in and how she’s taking advantage of her parents. This woman needs to have her head examined.
Plus, she thinks she’s going to be able to go to school and take care of 14 children on student loans??
I feel sorry for these children, but I hate my money is going to this.
@expression_child - She actually lives in her parents’ 2-bedroom house where they mainly take care of her children. Plus, they had to lose their last house to take care of her baby-making self. I don’t think she’ll get a show because she seems a little unbalanced.
@goofgal - Do you know her personally? How do you know she’s unbalanced?
Uh yeah…but like who gives two shits? I don’t…not my problem!
To all: if it does bother you, would you think she should have had an abortion?
It’s ridiculous that the government would allow so much money to be drained unnecessarily. To have 15 people on welfare just because she was “fixated” on having children is absolutely ludicrous. So many hard working people’s tax dollars are going to this woman and her 14 kids while she sits around absorbing other people’s handouts. She uses part of her welfare money to fund pregnancies that she can’t afford and so she gets more welfare to support more of her kids and then saves part of THOSE welfare checks to fund even MORE kids?! I’m not even American and I’m beyond annoyed!
@theScalesandtheScorpion - abortion?! Why would she have an abortion? I don’t think this lady can even get pregnant legitimately! She had in vitro fertilization for all 14 of her kids!! There’s no need for abortion here, she just needs to stop paying for procedures to TRY and get pregnant!
@amavel_melle - I’m just stirring up the muck, coming up with a darker senario than the reality that is this person’s family. What if she changed her mind halfway through? Federal Assistance vs. Abortion. That discussion would tempt people to put a price tag on human life. What price is too high for a society to help support a kid who probably shouldn’t have been brought into the world in the first place? It is a messed up question that lies under the surface of the question Dan asked,” Does it annoy you that your tax dollars are supporting a woman that keeps on having children?”.
If the mom shouldn’t have had more children, than those children shouldn’t have been born. If those children shoudn’t have been born, suddenly a judgement is made that factors into the topic of abortion because human life is suddenly less sacred (atleast as it pertains coming from this particular mother). Messed up, dark, but it is there none the less.
Life is full of opportunists like that–I could drive myself insane brewing about this all day, but I also have faith that one can only abuse and use for so long before life comes crashing down on them. I feel sorry for the kids though.
yea its just publicity…
she wouldnt go on opra untill she was pain lots of $$$$
@mayanao - you made me laugh. thank you. =)
and i agree…YES!!! stupid cow.
@theScalesandtheScorpion - no i don’t think she should have had an abortion. i think she should give those babies to families who want children yet cannot afford invitro OR get a job and support all the babies on her own.
i don’t have a problem with welfare. we have it for a reason, HOWEVER, it is NOT to be used as means for income FOREVER and if you are already on government assistance, put off having more children until you no longer need government assistance. it isn’t my responsibility to pay for the children others can’t afford to have when i work my ass off and struggle to pay for the two i have.
i understand that there are other places our tax money is going that are far more annoying than this, HOWEVER…..shouldn’t we draw a line SOMEWHERE??? why just admit defeat and take the “oh well” attitude? she is STEALING from those who truly need assistance.
Ugh, yes. We have a population problem–knock it off.
Yes! I’m annoyed! Oh… and I love the part when she says “I know my family and neighbor will help out”
that’s BS.
WHY in the world would this woman want 14 kids. I don’t know.
JMO.
@musinuite - YES! I know the adoption process is long, but heck, there will be less starving kids.
Heck, I doubt they will let her adopt any.
I wonder if the media will ever interview her kids.
Yes. Especially with how expensive in vitro is.
yes it does. Living off of freaking welfare just because you are popping babies to be like your twin is not my idea of someone who needs assistance, I want to say I wish she was off of welfare but then her children would suffer and I can’t blame them for such a stupid woman
If you can’t support your kids with your own efforts, you should NOT be having kids.
And why is a single mom having in-vitro fertilization anyway?! What kind of idiot doctor allowed that to happen?!
Besides that, even if she were working long enough and hard enough to earn the money to care for the kids on her own, there’s no way they get enough care and love from her. NO WAY.
@theScalesandtheScorpion - No- I do not believe in abortion. She should not have done it in the first place; she had in-vitro fertilization to purposely get pregnant. It wasn’t a situation in which she could have said, “oh, I might end up pregnant” but rather, “I’m definitely gonna have at least one in the next nine months!” She could have prevented it all without abortion.
The deed was done as soon as she got pregnant; that was it. That’s the moment the potential for people to be pissed off arrived, heh.
@expression_child - Still, she brought this on herself by purposely having more kids when she was already struggling. I have no pity for the situation if she’d do that on purpose.
She may have a mental imbalance or something, and if so she should probably be made to get help or somehow be stopped from having any more babies….
@NikBv - LOL.
HELL YES.
If she wanted to spend $165,000 and go through a controversial in-vitro fertilization procedure (that may or may not have contributed to three of her children’s disabilities), and raise 14 kids in an unhealthy environment, then I guess that’s her prerogative.
But taking welfare checks to do it AND feeling like she’s entitled to that money… wow. I’m sure it’ll be a media circus if or when Child Services steps in. The impression that I’m getting is that there’s something not right about that woman. I do hope that kids grow up to be successful in whatever career they choose, because I’m sure it’ll take a grip-load of cash and tons of hours in therapy to undo the childhood they’re about to go through.
Uhgk.
I think it sucks!
Yes.
This Lady is out of her fucking mind. I mean I’ve been 100% disbaled since I was born and yes I do get a SSI check but every single cent goes back into the state and city where I live. And yes I get food stamps because my monthly SSI check is NOT enough to keep food in my house. And just because I don’t have a full time job. I still pay taxes on everything I buy. This is fucking pisses me off.
HELL to the YES.
Bitch doesn’t need more kids. She’s gobbling up all our money with her 349243923494329 premature babies when she already has six.
@Kevin_is_a_pirate - LOL. that’s .. nasty. haha
My tax dollars go to many things that I don’t necessarily agree with, but this is disgusting. If we have to pay for them, that is ridiculous. I hope that they take those kids away, and put them into homes of people who can actually afford to take care of them
This woman is totally messed up in the head…not only for the welfare & living with mom bit, but she refused to marry her bf!!! who was in love & wanted to marry her (don’t know why)! & she wanted to “do it on her own.” I’m sorry, but even though her parents are complaining about her, they must have done (or not done) something in her childhood to mess with her thinking. Who has kids just to dump them on mom? I thought the whole point of being a mom WAS to have people to take care of. To her, kids are objects.
Also, the doctor doesn’t care if what he did was ethical – why should he? He made probably $100 grand easily off her. Unless there was some sort of law/fine for preventing these sort of situations, then he’d back down. Money talks.
yes. now the taxpayers are going to be stuck with footing the bill for the hospital stays of her octuplets, plus the probably increase in her welfare check. boo.
I don’t pay taxes. yet.
But I would find that rather annoying
Hell ya..here I am waiting until I am financially stable to have my own kids, yet my tax dollars are going to retards who keep popping kids and passing on their retarded genes.
Yea, she’s not the only one either. I watched the Ann Curry interview and she’s incredibly likable but obviously delusional in her reasoning. Describing that she “holds” all her children in response to questions about whether or not she can provide a good home for her children.
Well, no actually. The children never asked to be born so why should that make them excempt from having food on the table? While the mother was in the wrong for being unresponsible, the children are still just that – children && deserve to eat. I say if food stamps is the only way for those children to eat, let them eat.
That lady is off her rocker.
Guess what, people? There’s a lot more to your problems and what’s holding you back from your version of success than the occasional “freak” who decides to have a dozen or more kids when she can’t afford it. There are much worse things to worry about, and if you don’t stop channeling your energy into finding excuses for your plight rather than trying to better ourself and love thy neighbor, then you probably deserve what you get and what you don’t!. Leave her alone, sore losers! Spread the love, haters! Have a nice f*cking day!!!
well , im not sure how to express my feelings on this but they are leaning toward a mean point of view
Uh, I think the point is that the kids don’t deserve to starve just because their mom has issues.
@michealsdianechaos - Anyone that pays taxes does.
@loveandpolitics - Then let’s take her kids away and tie up her tubes.
I think she should suffer in her own disabled mind!! she is just LAZY!! this is whats wrong about this country. People like her will abuse the funding/grants of our government. Arrgghh.. They should find a real family for this kids. She is mental!!
If you can’t feed ‘em, baby, don’t breed ‘em.
I’m not keen on paying for invitro for a woman with no job and who already has 6 children. I’m very annoyed with the moronic dr who would allow themselves to provide this woman with treatments. I wish I was surprised that this unemployed, single mother is abusing the welfare system but this is a typical occurence.
Why does she have a publicist? ^.^”
@NikBv - ”Just use that federal money to [buy] the lady a shoe and be done with it.”
HAHA! that one had me rolling. best answer yet.
i’m glad we can enjoy a little humor to get through what is otherwise a maddeningly frustrating situation all around.
“annoyed” is not a strong enough word.
people who depend on government assistance should not be permitted to go beyond traditional/natural methods to bring another dependent into this world. what the mom did is a crime.
It would be like a homeless person adopting a child. i honestly don’t see the difference.
@theScalesandtheScorpion - ”To all: if it does bother you, would you think she should have had an abortion?”
the difference is this in every possible scenario a “PLANNED” pregnancy. nobody “accidentally” gets in vitro fertilization.
great the lady had all 8 kids. now it’s time to take them away from her and put on her medical file “DNF”. not “DNR” as in do not resuscitate but DNF as in,
do not fertilize.
we should also make a Nadya Suleman Law where anyone receiving govt assistance is not permitted to get in vitro or the doctor loses his medical license.
Yes!!!!! Grrrrrr!!!
Most definitely!
Something is wrong with that lady. Seriously. I wouldn’t want my tax money supporting her!
People on here are so rude. Well, not all people, but some.
I don’t mind my tax money going to support little children who need the money. No matter why their monther decided to have them.
It’s funny how some people who consider themselves to be Democrats and supported President Obama in the election are suddenly having a problem with taxes when that’s a main aspect of that political party.
As much as I think we pay way too much taxes, I’d rather pay taxes for mothers to raise their children than to pay taxes for them to kill them inside the womb.
Also, I would rather pay taxes to support a culture of life than pay taxes to support a culture a big company bailouts. Go ahead, bail this woman out… instead of bailing out GM.
I think she’s just having kids for the welfare checks, like Bender from Futurama.
I want to know the whole story.
Just from that one article, it makes you wonder what kind of person can save up $165k and afford to get implanted as many times as she did, and now not be able to afford to take care of her own children. Americans are getting stupider and stupider as time passes.
um yea. Don’t fucking have children if you can’t even afford the ones you have. I’m tired of seeing people at walmart with 3 kids using food stamps and the lady is pregnant again. The health department where they go to take their children has free birth control. I’m sure they’ve mentioned it to you before too.
NO way should she be getting welfare. She had the $10k for in vitro to pay out of pocket (welfare won’t pay that…especially if she had 6 already) then she obviously didn’t need the welfare as much as she thought. If she is incapable of caring for the kids, NO she shouldn’t have them (her mom caring for them). And, with half of the previous 6 being disabled, it’s guaranteed some of these 8 will be too! The first 6 need their mom, and need someone to devote time to them (especially the disabled ones)! HOW is she suppose to do that while taking care of the new 8 ones? And, there is NO father and never will be one…because what guy wants to shack up with the woman with 14 kids? State should take them and give them to responsible parents who can afford them.
Yes, most definitely. I don’t think she should have been allowed to do that.
OMG YES. It pisses me off to an enormous degree. It is so freaking selfish and irresponsible to have EIGHT MORE CHILDREN when you can’t even support the ones you’ve got.
I guess what annoys me is that she had medical procedures to accomplish this, when there are many people who cannot get the medical care they need. And there are people who have children naturally who cannot get their own and the needs of their children met.
I don’t care if people want to have all the children they naturally conceive, without thinking about whether they can “afford” it. If they are comfortable with going along with nature that way and love their kids, they deserve their needs met. It just seems that this woman had a special science project which she irresponsibly conducted.
no, not really. This still seems like a better use than many other tax programs we have out there.
it annoys me to no end. if you cant support the kids you dont, dont have more. This goes for everyone though, not just that idiot.
hmm. Odd isn’t it? hope she can mother them well, and they grow up to repay us! You never know. Wish more people loved their kids a lot!
I’m less pissed off about the welfare and more pissed off that the kids will probably have a shitty tough time growing up b/c their mom is a total idiot and mentally unstable.
YES! She has issues. Seriously. She knew her story would blow up & some dumbass would buy it to support her & her 14 children. What a disgrace!
I feel that if her children are truly disabled, then they are entitled to SSI under the law. Food stamps – well, $490 is not going to put groceries each month on the table for a family of 7, much less a family of 15. I am more worried about the sense of entitlement she is giving to her children, her mental health, and the cost of her lifestyle on her children. I feel sad for her children and her parents. They will all bear the burden of her hangup about having a large family. Even if she was a full time worker, she most likely not be able to financially support 14 children without some assistance.
And for those who have managed to live without assistance – kudos to you. It doesn’t always work that way for everyone. If something happened to me, I would hope that my hubby would apply for food stamps to feed my kids (rather than let them go hungry) until he found a job that could support them. He is a full time student right now, and we surely don’t have to use public assistance with my job and benefits, but if I died he would be in trouble.
I think someone in her situation has no business having children in the first place, and I’m damn pissed that she seems to think she can just pop out as many damn babies as she wants while all the responsible people have to foot her bill. I mean, how does she expect to put those kids through college, or take car of them? Or hell, even spend any time with them. She needs to be institutionalized. Of course, my tax dollars would probably end up paying for that too.
She annoys me. Why were we paying for in-vitro for her anyway??
Um, YEAH! If she wants all of those kids than she should have to pay for them.
They’re not my tax dollars, but I still think she’s a disgusting, irresponsible excuse for a woman.
Um definitely! We were talking about this in dual credit today and I think everyone in the class was riled up.
@hugxlaughxsmilexlove - so you are saying people who work in McDonalds are not hard working?
though i don’t pay the taxes… but HELL YEAH!!! when she knows she’s welfare… she still wants to have more children until no one can support her anymore… to be honest, she’s really stupid..
and wasn’t six children enough to end with?
Yes! Why is she doing this? It’s irresponsible and selfish of her.
This woman, a single mother with six children who was already receiving support from American tax dollars, somehow managed to have herself implanted with EIGHT fertilized eggs, from which she gave birth to octuplets. One question is how she paid (?) and was legally authorized to bear all those children, whether married or not. Another is… who’s going to pay for the upkeep of a grand total of fourteen kids? The newborns themselves only weigh a couple of pounds apiece and require special attention.
I would not deny those children what they need to survive and, hopefully, prosper. None of this is THEIR fault. But it certainly IS the fault of a corrupt clinic and an woman who is either mentally unstable or a plain crook.
First: That woman and her doctors should be tried for criminal fraud against the citizens of this country.
Second: The children should be put up for adoption into stable, caring families who can properly see to both their physical and spiritual needs… the latter being something that their odious natural mother could never provide with all the money in the world.
Otherwise, we award a welfare scheme with our dollars and, for our pains, will likely wind up with 14 young criminals to incarcerate in 14 years or so… also at taxpayer expense!
NO, it bothers me that my tax dollars are being spent on F-22 Raptors.