February 12, 2009
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Octuplets and Fundraising
I was reading an article today about how the mother of the octuplets has set up a website so people can give donations. Here is the link: Link (I can’t remember which blog I read this on first today so let me know if it was you and I will put your link here).
That got me thinking for a bit. Look at those precious children. None of this ordeal is their fault.
Would you be willing to give money to help raise the babies?
Comments (130)
Yes.
^^
The reason is the babies not the mother.
Yes. Or even donate some baby clothes if I had any.
Can I pay to have the mother’s tube tied?
Yes.
No because I’m pretty sure she’s supposed to be getting like a million dollars for some interview or something. And I’m sure the interviews she’s done so far she didn’t do for free..well that is if she’s smart.
I’d give clothes though!
No, I wouldn’t.
Definitely!
Can we guarantee that any of that money will actually go to the babies?
No. If not out of my own pocket, she’ll get it from the taxes I pay.
I second clockworkbunny…
I don’t give a shit how cute they are, all babies are cute. Well most.
My money wouldn’t even go to them but their crackpot mother.
If I really wanted to help the children (even though I wouldn’t call them precious just yet… newborns scare me), I would pay for the mother’s psychological treatment and THEN I would donate funds (or diapers… as I’m sure that’s where the majority of the funds are going).
@thisboyissexy - i’m sure she’d be cool with that as long as you paid her for her expense. sheesh.
If I were rich, I’d PROBABLY donate. Sadly, that is not the case [I wish I were rich lol].
~1~
As long as I knew that she was using the money for them and not for herself.
You’re right that none of the ordeal is their fault… So sure, when they’re like 18 and have the right to use money given to them, I’ll be glad to donate. But so long as that idiot woman controls where the money goes, she can go stick it up her behind, for all I’d like to help. Honestly, what kind of bitch would put FOURTEEN children through something like this?
I might have to think about that.
I have the same viewpoint as most people seem to. The money wouldn’t go to them, it’d go to her. And who knows, she’d probably get pregnant again if she got enough money.
@you_were_the_song_all_along - Yeah. Me too.
It was me that blogged it. I admit it. Link me.
Yes, I would. Despite my anger and frustration with the mother and what she represents (AND I VIEW THINGS DEMOCRATICALLY!), those babies need to be taken care of, regardless.
And they’re so damn cute <3
@Anthony_chosen - If she has any common sense, she’d be getting money off of it.
No.
It’s never the kids fault.
I would be more willing to donate if someone else was raising the babies or if it helped insurance she would have another child. I don’t think that woman is able to take care of those kids no matter how much she is giving.
I barely have enough money to keep myself afloat at the moment. Maybe if I was rich, but why didn’t she get her tubes tied after that sixth kid? She should have and this situation wouldn’t be happening. I feel bad for the kids though.
If you live in ca, you are already paying their hospital bills. 2,400 x 8.
but no, I would not. this lady is already living off the state. she lives with her parents in a three bedroom house with 14 kids now?
sounds like BS to me.
Xo
If I had a bit more money I certainly would…
no id give her used clothes from my neices and nephews.
Are you kidding me?
THIS is the way it should be. I’m all for giving money to causes and people and such on my own accord. I just have a problem with the government holding a gun to my head and forcing me to pay for others irresponsible actions.
As I said in another blog today, I’ve never wanted to punish the babies. It’s not there fault, and I don’t think they should go without. I hear money and gifts are literally pouring in to this woman and her babies.
HELL TO THE NO FOR THAT STUPID COW AGAIN!!!
Besides my sister’s having a baby on June so I can’t care ’bout otha babehs.
I would but I’m broke.
God would I donate to the children? yes because it is not their fault that their fucking mother is an inconsiderate fucktard
but I am wasting enough of my tax money paying for all the other crap she is freeloading. I seriously want to confiscate those children
no because all our money is going to the children we have. if she knew she wanted a huge family and to do it all alone, then she should’ve finished school, obtain a good job, save up money and then have all the babies she can afford. if she can’t afford all the kids she has, there are many women who can’t have kids who i’m sure would be willing to adopt.
It is a hard question–but honestly I hope that child services makes sure these kids are given the life they deserve—that mother is not fit.
No, that’s what the mom wants. More free money.
No.
I would if I had money.
No. She chose to have 8 more kids when she could barely support the 6 she already had.
@bripants - Great, where do I sign up?
I can’t believe all the yesses you’re getting. No, it’s not the poor kids’ fault, but knowing her track record, she’ll probably use the money to get inseminated again. I would be glad to help the kids, because I feel really sorry for them, but I’d have to see the help happening, not just send money!
maybe just maybe if the money were to actually go to paying the babies healthcare bill, but then again the mother KNEW what she was getting into and should have had the money set aside or insurance lined up to pay for the medical bills, it’s not like she accidentally got knocked up she had IVF for crying out loud.
I think the odds of these children and their six older siblings dying is extremely slim, whereas poor Haitian and Zimbabwean children are actually dying. There are babies with more to lose; ones with mothers who will never get interviewed for their stories and who still have to worry about their babies dying, not how many toys they have or how lush their nurseries are.
I would donate what I have to help those kids out and if even that I would even raise one on my own. I love kids. Only problem is that I’m heading for college and I dont think a baby would be good for reaching my college credits.
There’s a good chance she’ll just use that money to impregnate herself again.
@extremelygripping - That is so true, thank you for pointing that out.
I hate to seem heartless, but no. My funds are limited as it is and there are government programs in place to help her already that the taxpayers pay into.
My boyfriend says not to her and she is a not responsible enough. he has a feeling she would buy booze and drugs. he also says he’d donate diapers. i couldn’t do it either. i would donate formula clothes and diapers as well.
what about you?
Tie a hate note along with some money.
“think of the children!!!”
I think to overestimate the generosity and decency of others so they can continue to enable your poor choices and irresponsible decisions is selfish and self-centered.
if the mom really cared about her 6 children, she wouldn’t have had another 8.
she needs to give up all 8 of those kids up for adoption.
throwing money at the problem alone is never the solution.
No. Any children raised by her are clearly going to be insane. They will be better off dead, or put into the custody of sensible people.
Yes
No, I’m poor and have my own student loans. If she really wanted to have all those kids she should’ve gotten a good paying job years ago and stopped going to school. I wouldn’t pay her money that she’d use to pay off her own loans. I watched the interviews with her the other night and have some to realize that she’s just selfish and obsessed with babies. I mean, she’s going to school to get her Master’s while having 14 kids!? How irresponsible!
Sadly, no. I wouldn’t. Because if she was smart, she wouldn’t have brought them into the world in the first place. Andyou can’t promise me that this money is actually going to them. If I knew it was actually going to them, then yes. But for some reason, I don’t believe it will.
Nope, I just would not. I have a friend that is a single mother and struggles with one, I’d give to her first.
We are all already paying for them in the form of her welfare checks.
While indeed none of this is the fault of the babies, the thing the mom did with her unemployment checks was to hire not one but TWO publicists… and she’s on state and federal assistance. This woman and her children will be well-cared for but the taxpayers and whomever the publicists can drum up. If the Duggars have “17 kids and counting” (actually 18 now) and they can survive fine and dandy and if “John and Kate plus 8″ can do it, she can too without my money.
@slamjoe - Well said!
there are many families that would adopt them if she could not afford to take care of them. if the doctor would have done his job right there would be no need for a freaking fundraiser! I sure we all will be give her money some way or another through welfare and social security!
yup.
No, I wouldn’t, not yet anyway. It’s not their fault, but I don’t think the mum’s answer should be charity, she should work harder to give what she can to them from her own resources first. Even though theres probably not much. Considering she has resorted to fund raising already and she only had them a few weeks ago.x
I wouldn’t give her money, but I do support her.
No one wants to see the babies suffer for the stupidity of their mother. But, since the babies will not be making the decision how to spend any money that might be donated, I surely would not donate a single penny if the mother then decides how the money will be used. Because she has already demonstrated her extraordinary irresponsibility and lack of judgment.
I blogged about this to!
I wouldn’t give money. I would send baby items such as blankets, bottles, formula, pacifiers, diapers etc so I know that they have supplies and that my money wouldn’t gone else where!Also if I could (which I can’t) would be to donate my time to help the children.
I don’t want to help the mother but I want to help her children, all 14 of them. They had no say in her choices and they are in for one hell of a ride. I personally believe Children’s Aid will step in on this one. Even though she may be loving she has nothing else to offer her children which can and will be seen as child neglect and I will not be surprised if the octuplets are taken away from her.
I wouldn’t give money cause I wouldn’t KNOW where it was going. What if it wasn’t going to the babies?!
I’d give baby clothes & other things. Like diapers!
It isn’t the babies fault….At all. *sighs*
I would be willing—not to say I will though. I think her donations should come in the form of diapers and other baby supplies.
Without a doubt.
I would gladly donate STUFFto the babies.
Don’t have any money though!
Plus, stuff, the idiot Mother would be forced to use, couldn’t buy plastic surgery or something with it…Who knows how she would spend money that came from donations.
Nope.
a big fat no, and that sucks on one hand the babies didn’t ask for this and while normally i have no problem helping others out ( though usually it is me that needs the help, lol) but her whole situation borders on ridiculous and brings to mind the old question : should anyone be allowed to parent kids?
I don’t know how she is paying for all the embryos implanted in here, but I thought I heard somewhere that those cost 10 grand a pop. I bet that is what she would use the money for if any was donated.
No way in hell I would donate to her unless it was a savings fund that the only way it can be withdrawn is when the child is 18+ and the parent has no way of accessing the money.
i think im the only person in the world that doesn’t think she’s completely insane.
with that said, I still wouldn’t give her money. I’ve got my own problems.
Yes…I had a much longer response but it somehow got deleted…don’t know what I pushed, oh well.
I would not. At first I was reading everyone’s responses and their enthused, “Yes” and I felt like a bad person. I would not donate any money (even if I had it) for many reasons…
1. This is the mother’s fault. You plan to bring 14 children into the world ON YOUR OWN, you best have the means to provide for them. If not, they should be taken away from you, psycho.
2. The government is probably just going to give her money anyways. ACCIDENTS are accidents, getting pregnant with so many children and keeping them all…well, that’s your OWN fault.
3. The doctor who allowed this to happen and continue should donate THEIR time and money to help raise these children.
4. This whole thing was a publicity stunt for both doctor and crazy mother. And we’re falling for it.
No but its just because we have enough starving babies in Africa to help.
I wouldn’t donate money. I’d donate diapers or clothes. I don’t trust that woman with money.
Donating for children is definitely something I’d do. Although I prefer UNICEF over little private funds. But if I was a neighbor of these octuplets I’d help there.
I would never give her money, but I would probably give her baby stuff.
Probably not. Maybe clothes and stuff like that. But I would, however, watch a show about them on TLC. I’m nosy like that.
Peace.
She could give them up for adoption if she can’t afford them.
Dan,
Isn’t there anything else you can write about…???
@thisboyissexy - go to dick’s trailer park, to the yellow one on the side, knock on the door to the beat of stayin’ alive. an envelope will drop into your hands, put the money in and slip it in the gutter. then… run like hell.
i would be willing to give $ to social services to take the babies away to give them to a financial stable family that can raise all 8 together
If I had the money, yes.. I believe all children should have a chance and since this wacko didn’t make the right decisions – doesn’t mean they won’t in their lifetime. I’d hate to see something go wrong and her needing funds but not being able to cover it. I don’t like her though, the babies – a whole different story. I love babies.
I agree with some of the people who mentioned donating clothes and such, I wouldnt give her actual money, because she’s already gonna get it from our lovely taxes. I just feel bad for the babies, they have to grow up living with her as a mother!
if the foster care system stepped in and these kids were given a more stable home, yes…
i honestly think she is an unfit mother, and those children should all be taken away from her.
No way.
If I had the $$ I would donate, but only if there was some sort of oversight to be sure it was used only for the babies needs. I would be more likely to send actual baby items, though, like diapers or something. It would really bug me to think she might be using the cash on things for herself!
I would be willing to send items but not money. That way I know the gift was going to the kids and not an irresponsible mother.
Not a dime…as long as they are living with their idiot mother. Actually, they should send all of the bills to the stupid doctor that helped her start this whole mess!
@Umnenga - Heck, we’ve got plenty of kids starving right here in the USA…much less Africa. Charity begins at home.
I would donate to help those sweet little babies but I’d be afraid the money would go toward another set of acrylic nails rather than to her kids.
Definitely!
It’s not the kid’s fault, so if the money is going to help them, then I would donate some money.
No.
no way.
not no, but Hell No!
If I had money to spare, or any bit of money at all, then yea, gladly. Especially since I’ve already wasted a huge chunk of my life and theirs is only beginning. It’s exciting, isn’t it, Dan?
I wouldnt give money
I would donate clothes and things like that
but there isnt really a way that she will be able to deal with those children.
unless all that money goes towards baby minders that will effectively bring them up.
one is enough.
Only if they’re put up for adoption.
No. Supporting mothers like that gives women the idea that having huge litters of children is fine and dandy because there will always be someone ready to give money. She made a decision (a very, very bad decision) to get pregnant when she couldn’t afford to take care of the six children she already had at home; she needs to take some responsibility and provide for those 14 kids herself.
She’s already getting handouts from the government, so to be begging online as well just makes her seem even more stupid and greedy.
It just makes me so angry that because of this woman’s irresponsibility, struggling middle-class families’ tax dollars are going to her. HER, not her babies. why does society have to pay for her poor choices? i’m just unhappy these poor children have to have her as a mother. no mother can raise so many children, giving each one proper attention, care and nurture, all by herself. not enough hours in the day! however i would donate some clothes, shoes, and other things that have to be used for the babies and not so the mother can fly to more places, do more pity interviews and try to get enough sympathy money so SHE can live a decent life without having to do any work except have some kids.
@LadyLibellule - i am in 100% agreement. however like i said before i would donate just to help the kids and not the greedy and idiotic mothers.
Theoretically, I definitely would. The babies can’t be blamed for their mother’s insanity and irresponsibility.
Realistically, I don’t think so. There’s really no way to gurantee that the money is going to them and only them.
not really… I do feel sorry for them… but their mother had made the decision to have them… she should be responsible to raising them all up (I’ve heard that the mother had spoken to the doctor to getting octuplets… so it wasn’t an natural accident)
If they were taken away from her, as they should be, then yes. This woman is just gonna keep popping out babies with no way to take care of them. She’s freaking nuts. Besides, the money would go to her, not those babies.
Although I think it was completely stupid for that woman to try and get pregnant when she can barely support herself and she’s on welfare. I would donate money because like you said, those kids didn’t choose to be born into that lifestyle. But I wouldn’t donate money, I would donate like diapers or food so I knew what I was donating was going directly to the children.
@bripants - Whoa! Good thing you told me to run. The Bri-Pansy is coming after me!
There is no way I’d just give her money, if I wanted to help the crazy lady I would send clothes or diapers, or something like that. If I couldn’t guarantee that the money go straight to the raising of the kids she wouldn’t get a cent out of me. Her choice to have them, she should have made sure she could take care of them before paying to get herself pregnant again.
i think she’s a stupid lady
just as good as a peddler
She shouldnt hv so many kids… omg. I’ll donate milk powder and diapers =D
No.
Only if the money is used strictly for the babies and the mother gets NOTHING! She’s proven herself at the very least to be foolish; at the very worst to be criminally insane!
Take a hose to them, and maybe we’ll talk.
Not like an abortion hose. A garden hose. Because they’re gross.
No. I have a negative view of in vitro fertilization. Also, that is what welfare is for.
ok, but only if they pay for my 8 kids.
Absolutely NOT! I can’t tell you how much this entire story disgusts me. She should be ashamed of herself for being such a selfish pig. People like are her are the reason our economy is in the crapper. Don’t want to work? Have a kid and collect from the governement. Want more money? Pump out enough that there’s a guarantee things will be wrong with them and you’ll get more money. Someone needs to rip out her uterus and throw it in boiling water and take every one of those kids away from her. Had enough money for the procedures, but not to get her own place or find a job. PIG!
Under the new stimulus bill you as the tax payer will now not only pay for this kind of incompetance but it gives out incentives for States to sign up as many welfare recipients as possible. It brings back the old welfare system everyone hated before the 1990s. Thank you Obammessiah!
Not money,because I don’t trust that mother, but other things, like baby food, clothes, etc.
I am usually a very giving person, but I feel why should I reward someone who is an idiot. What she is doing is not fair to the society that is going to have to pay for the raising of those sweet little things, but also not fair to those little darlings. It is hard enough in a normal divorced single parent family, but in hers there is no other help or support. What Dr. in their right mind would help her do this. And were did she get the money to do it. That is not a procedure that is cheap. Too many issues for me to say that I would help her.
No but I’d take one to raise myself.
isnt she getting state money (though she denied it) and a whole lot of money from television interviews??
she has 14 kids to take care of
but now she wants to go to college
could college be the reason for her wanting the money?!
i dont know and i absolutely dont care anymore
I would definitely donate things like clothing, diapers formula, but I would never give a penny to the mother. she is absolutely off her rocker and she would probably use it for like liposuction or something ridiculous like that.
I think we need a limit on how many children someone has in America. She already had 3 kids before, and that’s enough. Now she has 8 more? Oye. Poor little babies.
I already am. I pay TAXES!
I wouldn’t donate money that she could use for anything, I’d probably donate other things, clothes, bottles, etc.
Yes if the money didnt get into that mother’s hand.
No. It absolutely disgusts me that this woman has dared to ask for donations for her personal use.
This woman is disgusting! If she wanted to do this by herself, she needs to do this by herself! Selfish witch!
directly to the children yes i definately would… they haven’t done anything wrong…
to their mother no… heard strange and upsetting things about her….