Octuplets

[disneyland lady]

I believe it was the Carter Administration that removed the federal program called Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) which went on until a child was age 18 and implimented Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) which has a 5 year lifetime limit per child. I know from a family member that the mother will be put in a program to learn a job and told they have one year to complete the program before there would be no more free income or free housing allowance. And the govt does exactly that.

If this grandmother does what she says and leaves when the babies come out of the hospital and the mother does not go back to work at the fertility clinic then all those kids - 14 of them times the monthly allotment for 5 years is what Calif is going to have to do.

[edfshr]

Somehow there is always more assistance.  Then when those 14 grow up if they are not all welll adjusted adults, they will need assistance for themselves as well as their spawn.

[Mistyeyed]

i have people like that next door to me....the "spawn" is on her second child already,and only 20 years old..drawing assistance...they did actually find her a job at Lowes,got her a car so she could get back and forth to work..then..she "conveniently" failed her drug test and fired her...so now,shes not working and got a car out of the deal...

[Squid]

The system needs overhauling.  Big time.

[arniebear]

The single mother of octuplets born in California last week is seeking $2 million from media interviews and commercial endorsements to help pay the costs of raising the children, the London Times reported.

Nadya Suleman, 33, plans a career as a television childcare expert after it emerged last week that she already had six children before giving birth on Monday. She now has 14 children younger than 8.

Although still confined to a Los Angeles hospital bed, she intends to talk to two influential television hosts this week — media mogul Oprah Winfrey, and Diane Sawyer.

Her family has told agents she needs cash from media deals.

The mother of the longest-living octuplets in U.S. history is being deluged with offers for book deals, TV shows and other business proposals, but according to her publicist hasn't decided what she might do once she leaves the hospital.

On Friday she retained the Killeen Furtney Group public relations firm to handle what company President Joann Killeen says are hundreds of offers arriving by the day from all over the world. They include requests for paid interviews, TV show appearances, book deals and other opportunities.

Killeen says Suleman is "the most sought after mom in the world right now" but hasn't decided what she'll do next, other than care for her children.

Suleman's earning power, though, could be diminished by a growing ethical and medical controversy. Experts believe that the unnamed fertility specialists who gave her in vitro fertilization (IVF) should not have implanted so many embryos, and in choosing to carry all eight to term, Suleman ignored guidelines, risking both the babies' health and her own.

Public reaction has been mixed: Many have asked how an unemployed single mother can raise 14 children, as her first six have already strained the family budget. Angela and Ed Suleman, Nadya's parents, bought her a two-bedroom bungalow in the Los Angeles' suburb of Whittier in March 2007, but soon after fell on hard times and had to leave their own home.

I guess if you go on Oprah and Good Morning America that makes you a wonderful person, I am sorry but I think she is exploiting her kids and taking advantage of others.

[roadwarrior]

I was born with a rare gentic condtion that makes me unable to have a child at all.  No amount of fertility treaments or anything will make me able to carry a child.

Hubby and I looked into adopting overseas, and no way we could afford it.  Infants are very rare.

This woman makes me sick.  she has 6 perfectly good kids at home and she wants more?  How is she paying for the first six?  What was the docter thinking plating 8 embroys in her?  Why not just 2 or 3?  Why even do it in the first place if she's got 6 kids sitting at home?

What I can never understand is there are thousands of kids in foster care, right in our own country.  Right in our own backyards.  Yet people are willing to spend millions upon millions to adopt a baby to save them from a life in china, a life in india or even a life in poverty.  But what about foster kids?  Many of them come from backgrounds just as bad as those over in China or Africa.

Many of them are really great, sweet kids.  They aren't looking for a perfect parent.  They just want a forever family. What's more important, the pregnancy-which lasts last 9 months, or being a parent, which will last a life time?

My hubby and I adopted a sibling group out of foster care.  We did the paper work, the homestudy everything.  We were only expecting one child, we only got one bedroom ready.    We got a call from our social worker asking if we'd be willing to adopt a sibling group.  Great I thought, 2 or 3 kids.  Boy was I wrong. 

In three days we went from a childless couple to parents of five. 

Ages 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15.  All of them siblings that had been living in different foster homes across the state.  Now 18 months later, we've seen first dates, first boy/girl friend, first prom, first driving lesson, first breakups, first day of school, first christmas together, parent teacher confernces, first parent/child fight, birthdays, the tooth fairy, staying up late for Santa, we've gone through all the normal stuff parents/kids/tweens/teens go through.  Would hubby and I trade this for anything? No.  Does the fact that my children are of hispanic/african descent and hubby and I are white? No.  Does it bother them? No. Because we are family, thats why.  I have enjoyed every minute of it, and will forever enjoy it.

[jarjar]

God Bless you and your hubby. Your hearts are very big. I am sure 5 beautiful children have been made very happy because of you and your husband. That is beautiful. Thank God for people like you who can truly give these poor neglected children a home with love.

[arniebear]

I was born with a rare gentic condtion that makes me unable to have a child at all.  No amount of fertility treaments or anything will make me able to carry a child.

Hubby and I looked into adopting overseas, and no way we could afford it.  Infants are very rare.

This woman makes me sick.  she has 6 perfectly good kids at home and she wants more?  How is she paying for the first six?  What was the docter thinking plating 8 embroys in her?  Why not just 2 or 3?  Why even do it in the first place if she's got 6 kids sitting at home?

What I can never understand is there are thousands of kids in foster care, right in our own country.  Right in our own backyards.  Yet people are willing to spend millions upon millions to adopt a baby to save them from a life in china, a life in india or even a life in poverty.  But what about foster kids?  Many of them come from backgrounds just as bad as those over in China or Africa.

Many of them are really great, sweet kids.  They aren't looking for a perfect parent.  They just want a forever family. What's more important, the pregnancy-which lasts last 9 months, or being a parent, which will last a life time?

My hubby and I adopted a sibling group out of foster care.  We did the paper work, the homestudy everything.  We were only expecting one child, we only got one bedroom ready.    We got a call from our social worker asking if we'd be willing to adopt a sibling group.  Great I thought, 2 or 3 kids.  Boy was I wrong.

In three days we went from a childless couple to parents of five.

Ages 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15.  All of them siblings that had been living in different foster homes across the state.  Now 18 months later, we've seen first dates, first boy/girl friend, first prom, first driving lesson, first breakups, first day of school, first christmas together, parent teacher confernces, first parent/child fight, birthdays, the tooth fairy, staying up late for Santa, we've gone through all the normal stuff parents/kids/tweens/teens go through.  Would hubby and I trade this for anything? No.  Does the fact that my children are of hispanic/african descent and hubby and I are white? No.  Does it bother them? No. Because we are family, thats why.  I have enjoyed every minute of it, and will forever enjoy it.

May God Bless all of you, I wish there were more of you.........you are so right kids are just looking for a forever family and lots of love.

[FreecellFanny]

RW, God bless you and your husband. What you have done for these children is amazing.   

I may get slammed for this but that silly cow in Wittier is a poster child for forced sterilization and the clinic that implanted her should be shut down.

[disneyland lady]

She is going to be pursue a career as a "television childcare expert". And TV climbs to a new low.

[Homer]

RW, God bless you and your husband. What you have done for these children is amazing.   

I may get slammed for this but that silly cow in Wittier is a poster child for forced sterilization and the clinic that implanted her should be shut down.

I don't slam. Now on the other hand slapping is my cup of tea. 

[roadwarrior]

She is going to be pursue a career as a "television childcare expert". And TV climbs to a new low.

It will be as bad a Brittney Spears writing a book on childcare

[disneyland lady]

It will be as bad a Brittney Spears writing a book on childcare

Didn't Britney's mom write one on " the personal story of raising high-profile children"?

[arniebear]

No they canceled her parenting book, and instead she wrote on life in the tabloid world 

[FreecellFanny]

I don't slam. Now on the other hand slapping is my cup of tea. 

Only if you talk dirty at the same time. 

[Homer]

Only if you talk dirty at the same time. 

[FreecellFanny]

 

[disneyland lady]

Caught this tidbit inside an article of how the mom is getting deluged with offers from media (not pampers or huggies): <i> According to her spokesman, Mike Furtney, the "very bright, very engaging" Suleman has a degree in psychology and hopes to continue work toward a master's degree. </i>

Hmmmm......14 children? When does she think she will have time to continue her college education? It it also sad that she wasn't ordered to see a psychologist who had a master's degree.

[disneyland lady]

I wish I could let this go but it just keeps my anger issues rising. Seems since 1999 she has been living on Cali Disability Benefits and interestingly she started her expensive IVF treatments starting at that same time. I know what a normal gestation and care of a baby does to an avg woman's back so what does several sets of multiples do? I hope they get around to investigating her for disability fraud as she has also been going to school since 1999 on the taxpayers dime and can't wait to get to the end of her degree so that she can <b>start</b> her goals.

She proudly said that she spent 45 mins each day with each child and my math is saying that with 14 it does not leave much time for that career. But I do want someone to do a study of this woman so that we can see what ALL of her children are like when they hit adolescence cuz I deal with one daily and he was raised with plenty of attention from loving parent and grandparent.

[Homer]

Should we call her "Octo-Mom"?

Will she be in Spiderman 4?

Are her children considered Squids?