6 kids plus 8 babies: What was doctor thinking?

Some network will give this woman her own reality show (like the Gosselins on TLC) and use that money to live off of............so advertisers will be paying for those kids and that family.  Just like the Duggars, etc.

How else do you think the Gosselins and the Duggars can afford the house that they've built or moving into........from their TV shows!

Doh!

No, they are not there to say whether or not someone should have a large family. But fertility doctors are creating the family!! It should be for those who have none! Not for those that have 6 already! If she had 14 naturally...ok, fine. The Duggars (ugh) did it...(and I think they're trying again...UGH) But anywho....there should be something that says if you've got kids you're not a viable candidate for fertilization treatments!

The world's record for one woman having children naturally is 69. There are a number of women who have had 50 or so kids.

I really can't fault them or the doctors for this. If they want the kids, fine. If they want help from medical science, how is that different from getting help from medical science for anything else?

I think they are nuts myself. But 14 kids is only a large family in the modern world, it's not all that remarkable in most of the world.

Regarding the medical bills, I don't care. Why? Because this is nothing in the total picture. There are so many old people who are going to be a burden on society getting care they can't pay for it's pathetic.

Believe me. The world is not going to fill with mommas having 8 kids at a time. It's an extraordinary event.

Its nobodys business who wants to have more children. She has to raise them and pay for them. There are too many guidelines on who can and should have kids and who can and should adopt. The world would be better if everyone tended to their own gardens and stood out of everyone elses. Good luck to you, Mom. God Bless all your children and hope they live long happy healthy lives.

Stevo, you are 100% correct. That is what some people don't seem to understand. Yes, you can have as many kids as you want if YOU can afford it. Remember the politician in Arkansas who had 14 kids. He did not ask for public assistance, so his decision to have a large family did not bother me. However, if this woman cannot afford to take care of her 14 kids, that bothers me. Since, I have to chip in to help, it becomes my business.

I think that doctor who helped her do this should be sued or help pay for the kids. After all, it was his doing. He should've looked at the family background before considering impregnating her.

who cares. everyone needs to mind their own business and worry about bigger problems in the world and how they can contribute to make a difference in the world. we are not in china people. we are allowed to decide how many children we want and how big of a family we want to have. people are making this into such a big deal. do you really want doctors policing how many children we can have? leave it alone and tend to your own matters and business.

So many people support a woman's "right" to have an abortion - why don't we support a woman's right to have as many children as she wants? I'm pro-choice meaning I'm for the choice to have children. I'm proud of this mother for not terminating any of these babies. Many people are being judgemental in her decision to have these babies and how she went about doing it. We don't know her reasoning for it. It's her body, her decision and if she wants to raise 14 children, more power to her. You like the idea of limiting children? Move to China.

John T. To my thinking you are not making sense on many levels:

1) Getting a fertility doctor to help you have more kids when you already have 6 is a world of difference from getting a doctor to do a nose job. Bringing more babies into this world puts a burden on so many systems of society I don't have space to list them all. But I'll just bring up one of the more glaring: school system costs. This woman's kids now will be 1/4 of a entire class. Will she have to pay 8x the taxes of the rest of us?

2) Her medical costs are astronomical. Start with her 8 week hospital stay in high risk pre-natal unit: the base cost is at least $185,000.00. That doesn't include drugs & tests or anything except room and board. The whole cost is more likely 400,000.00. Figure actual delivery is estimated at about $175,000.00 (more than 40 doctors & nurses took part). The post-natal care in NICU for 8 babies adds approximately another 1.5 million. Evidently this woman has Kaiser insurance - how many others WON'T get care because of this obviously mentally ill woman? What's also not mentioned in a lot of articles is this person's husband is in the military, so she clearly CANNOT afford to raise the extra kids without government support! That makes her actions not just insane, but unethical & downright immoral.

3) People who get old (which is something that is inevitable if one avoids fatal traffic accidents and getting shot, etc) a 'burden on society'? YOU are clearly a [very] young person. Are you of the school of thought we should declare all those over 70 as nonpersons with no rights to medical care or property? That we should deny them any medical care? Perhaps give them all a shot and get rid of these 'burdens'? To equate old age with a mentally ill woman who had NO NEED of more children sucking over 1.5 million dollars out of the medical community is ludicrous.

Consider how other (and more long-term stable)societies treasure their elderly. They respect their longevity and look to them for solutions. If we'd listened to our elderly these past 40 years we wouldn't be in the financial mess we find ourselves now. (Actually, I DID...and am still in zero debt, with a paid off home and cars..the only thing I need to pay for is food and utilities. Thanks, Gramps!)

The only thing extraordinary about this woman having 8 kids is how she conned the fertility doc to help her. 5 gets you 10 Kaiser (and every other insurance company) is busy re-writing their fertility rules to ban help to those with more than 2 or 3 kids- if not just one.

I think it's interesting many companies who usually like to drown these mommas with lots of freebies (diapers, formula, etc) have opted to bypass this nut-case. They don't want her to profit off them. So, if she was hoping for people to build her a nice, new spacious house [reportedly they live in a 3 bedroom home now] or give her free diapers she can forget it.

I wonder if in the future Social Services will have to remove some or all of the kids from this woman for inability to care for them, abuse, etc...adding yet another level of cost to her decision.

John, I wonder if you'll think of the elderly as a 'burden' when you join their ranks in 50 years?

Now don't you think it's interesting that all the other litters of kids that have been celebrated are white, and now a non-white one comes along and all of a sudden it's:

"Oh my god! This is just so wrong! Call the law! Sue the doctor!"

Oh, no. You aren't racist. Not you.

How in the world can someone so far in debt and have 6 kids and then have a fertility doctor help her have 8 more kids? Not saying we should be like China (1 child only) but come on the one is a shrink and she does something so irrashinable?(sp) i hope this isn't going to be bad for the kids. Being raised on welfare isnt exactly the life i would choose for my children, and rightnow who can afford all those kids? Don't the kids have a say in anything? this is just ludicrious! and as far as the Duggars family goes they are a bunch of hypocrits. where does it say in the bible to plenish the earth and use your children for capital gain??? No I am not a racist however there is no way in todays times that she will ever give all those kids the life they deserve and a paid college education.. some people dont think outside the box or look at another persons perspective. I dont usually judge people because we are not suppose to however this was completely crazy!

All white, not all white.  You know what, until I read this, I had no idea what color she was, and it didn't matter.  What does matter, is that she used absolutely no common sense at all.  Everyone keeps commenting on the Duggars.  Well, the Duggars are a well balanced family that works as a  team.  How can you do that, as  a single parent?  And now, all 14 of her kids are under 8!!!   Yes, she lives with her folks, but they won't live forever.  None of us do.  Get over the racist stuff.  This might even be a little jealousy on my part.  My wonderful daughter and son-in-law want kids, and can't have them.  And they could provide a wonderful, loving home life for any child.  And  this chick is mass producing, it's crazy.

It is so unethical, I can't even come up with more discussion.

Logika-

1) Getting a fertility doctor to help you have more kids when you already have 6 is a world of difference from getting a doctor to do a nose job. Bringing more babies into this world puts a burden on so many systems of society I don't have space to list them all. But I'll just bring up one of the more glaring: school system costs. This woman's kids now will be 1/4 of a entire class. Will she have to pay 8x the taxes of the rest of us?

Children have always been a collective responsibility of civilized societies. I realize that it has become fashionable in places like California to not want to pay taxes for anything that you aren't personally using. That attitude is narcissistic bullcrap, and it is why the state is crashing. By your logic a family with zero children should pay nothing for schools and a family of 4 should pay four times what a family of 1 child pays. That is ridiculous and sophomoric. Get a grip. In her county she is an extra 8 kids in a school. It doesn't matter.

2) Her medical costs are astronomical. Start with her 8 week hospital stay in high risk pre-natal unit: the base cost is at least $185,000.00. That doesn't include drugs & tests or anything except room and board. The whole cost is more likely 400,000.00. Figure actual delivery is estimated at about $175,000.00 (more than 40 doctors & nurses took part). The post-natal care in NICU for 8 babies adds approximately another 1.5 million.

First, those costs are a hoax for the yokels. For instance, I had a back surgery that was priced at $28,000 without hospital stay. (I had switched insurance and it was a pre-existing condition.) My insurance billed the hospital and I paid them, and with 2 days stay plus the operation, it cost me $6,000. I kid you not. Divide those by four, minimum.

Evidently this woman has Kaiser insurance - how many others WON'T get care because of this obviously mentally ill woman?

Excuse me? She is described as an "awesome mom". Who are you to say she is mentally ill?

The answer to how many won't get care is zero. It won't make any difference. No different than any other extraordinary event. Do you know how much it costs to care for a motorcycle accident victim? How about the guy who fell 4 stories drunk onto a sidewalk and was in intensive care for 6 months and in regular care for another year?

What's also not mentioned in a lot of articles is this person's husband is in the military, so she clearly CANNOT afford to raise the extra kids without government support! That makes her actions not just insane, but unethical & downright immoral.

This comment is so outrageous you should be ashamed of yourself. Who are you to say that because someone is in the military they shouldn't get government support? And who are you to suggest that because he is in the military he will never amount to a hill of beans? Hmm? Are you getting a clue yet? This woman has a support system - her parents. She's fine.

3) People who get old (which is something that is inevitable if one avoids fatal traffic accidents and getting shot, etc) a 'burden on society'? YOU are clearly a [very] young person. Are you of the school of thought we should declare all those over 70 as nonpersons with no rights to medical care or property?

I am 52 my brother and I am currently doing medical research. I know how things work. I know where the costs are. It is simply a fact that about 50% of all the costs to the medical system are from extraordinary care delivered in the last 6 months of life. Go look it up. This problem is also the primary destroyer of middle class family fortunes.

Consider how other (and more long-term stable)societies treasure their elderly. They respect their longevity and look to them for solutions. If we'd listened to our elderly these past 40 years we wouldn't be in the financial mess we find ourselves now. (Actually, I DID...and am still in zero debt, with a paid off home and cars..the only thing I need to pay for is food and utilities. Thanks, Gramps!)

Well, many societies put their non-functional elders out to die. In Fijian traditional culture it was the responsibility of the eldest son to strangle his parents before they became infirm. Your view of other societies is unsalted by anthropological study. :-)

I too have no debt, and listened to my elders. My parents trusted me with their wish not to be disturbed if they decided to take a sleeping pill and go out in a snowdrift. I had no influence on that, they had that influence on me.

5 gets you 10 Kaiser (and every other insurance company) is busy re-writing their fertility rules to ban help to those with more than 2 or 3 kids- if not just one.

I guarantee you they are not. They would get in so much trouble with the insurance commissioner. They cannot do that.

I think it's interesting many companies who usually like to drown these mommas with lots of freebies (diapers, formula, etc) have opted to bypass this nut-case.

First, you don't know that yet. Second, she is learning one thing - be white. The companies will jump on this like flies on poop if the tied of public opinion turns. You can be sure of that. It's all about marketing.

I wonder if in the future Social Services will have to remove some or all of the kids from this woman for inability to care for them, abuse, etc...adding yet another level of cost to her decision.

She is described as "an awesome mom." The doctors said she is strong and breast feeding them all. Now, if morons like you turn her into a pariah for the terrible crime of reproducing too much while non-white, yes, she may wind up in that system. But I don't expect her to. See, one of my inlaws runs a CPS caseload of 600+ kids.

John, I wonder if you'll think of the elderly as a 'burden' when you join their ranks in 50 years?

Guess I'm going to have to get rid of my AARP card. Darn. I liked those discounts!

John -- You are obviously an educated author of fiction! And a man as well, that is unless John is only your writing name (or whatever the accurate term may be). Strangely, it's usually men who believe having multitudes of children is great. There is a man (well, actually he was a woman & changed to a man) who has given birth & is pregnant again. John, you might want to look into that.

Seriously, it was a great tale you wrote. Hope you win the Pulitzer!

Don't know about the ethical guidelines but I'm all for a good old fashioned horse whipping for this a-hole doctor and the mother, and I used the term cautiously, should have all 8 taken from her and placed in homes where there are two loving individuals waiting for 1 child. How this woman's parents can defend her is beyond me. And to suggest, as some have, that she is going to be responsible for feeding and clothing them and taking care of them is missing a bolt or two. She will have everything given to her that she needs, maybe even given a new house, likely a year's worth of free helpers, diapers till the kids are toilet trained, money for their education, etc. Have none of you ever seen an Oprah show honoring these horrific types?

Now don't you think it's interesting that all the other litters of kids that have been celebrated are white, and now a non-white one comes along and all of a sudden it's:

"Oh my god! This is just so wrong! Call the law! Sue the doctor!"

Oh, no. You aren't racist. Not you.

Wrong John!

The other Octuplets, the only other Octuplets born in the US, were born to an Nigerian born American citizens in Houston in 1998, They got lots of publicity.

There should be a limit as to how many embryos can be implanted. 8 was a ridiculous number and a risk to all of the babies. If there are guidelines already in place this doctor and any doctor that can't follow them shouldn't be allowed to practice anymore.

The fact that this family is being so secretive and she is having so many kids ... (she already had 6) I think there is more to this story than we know. Just seems odd to me. Something about this just stinks.

All I can say is WOW. As I read through this I'm amazed. Obama reverse's Bush Policy on funding and I see one pro-lifer after another up in arms because even though the money will help with education and pre-natal care since it can help with abortion Obama is the anti-Christ. Here we have the opposite and they condemn her for not having had some of the babies aborted when all of the in-vitros took (most of the time only 1 or 2 become viable).

Can't have it both ways people. The Medical technology is out there for both but if your here shouting abortion is wrong and turn right around and condemn this woman your nothing but a hypocrite.

Someone called into the Jon & Ken show on KFI-640 in LA today. He said his g/f works at a grocery store near where this lady is from. She has waited on this lady and her father. He said she pays for groceries with WIC and EBT (welfare). Go ahead and have 14 kids, but don't make the taxpayers pick up the tab.

As a kaiser patient I think that they were wrong and also the mother is wrong. Reason to follow:

As a kaiser patient I have had alot of issues in regards to this. I could not conseive for six years and what i got was a hsyterectomy. and to this day 4 years later it is one problem after another.

14 kids when is it going to stop???? Like the Duggars 18 childeren. which i think is now 19 or 20 by now. if she has that many kids and no father and lives with her parents, who the hell is paying for them??? Is something we all are going to do later???

It is like all the people from Mexico that are here illagal and we are paying for them as well. And Someone on disibility and i went for assistance and was told i couldn't because i did not have a couple of kids, I was white and I belong here.

What dose that say for our system? Pretty screwed up in my eyes!

I so agree- this woman is in debt and wanted the babies so she coud become famous and get her own reality show- give me a break. Even her statement to the press sounded so planned. We should all ignore her- she just wants attention- let her raise her kids and pay for them on her own- that is real life...

This is extremely selfish and detrimental to the planet.

The media exploits this and we here more examples of this. Look at the woman with 18 children... and she wants more.

Babies become children. Children become adolescents. All will become adults, baring tragedy.

Inside of 20 years 14 more adults will join a nation of people seeking employment... and that just comes from this woman.

I hear she lives with her mom and is not married.

What the hell!!!!

There are thousands out there looking for homes.... ADOPT!!!

I think that Dr needs to be banned from ever doing this again. The Dr and the Mother & Grandparents saw $$$$$$$. Who in their right mind would want 14 children in this economy and she is living w/her parents and 6 other children. The children should be taken away and given a chance at a better life. This is a disgrace, medically and morally!!Maybe they wanted their own TV show!!???

6 kids was already plenty, and if they wanted more, adoption is a beautiful thing, yeah maybe they are shooting for their own show, I sure hope not, and the thoughts of our tax dollars keeping them up makes my blood boil.

I think the mother should always provide socio-economic information as well as have a psychological evaluation. The medical staff can attempt, then, to guide the mother to appropriate avenues. If it doesn't work, then she will get fertility treatments if she can pay.

Instead of guidelines for the number of embryos implanted or whether or not the drugs have overstimulated egg production so insemination should be delayed, I am in favor of laws that restrict the number. Apparently we have some medical folks here or elsewere in the world who want to do harm with high multiple births which are dangerous to the mother and to the fetuses. There's a reason few of these higher number multiple births occur--the pregnancy ends in miscarriage. There is no reason to do such harm with today's technology.

However, once a multiple pregnancy has occured, then we revert back to the mother making a choice. I think at this point it would have to be left to the mother to choose. We simply can't legislate to prevent all foolishness.

My two cents....

From my experience, many reproductive endocronologists have a strict sense of ethics and morality. It is something that many of them struggle with - as do the patients. Don't use the newsworthy actions of the very few color your opinion of the rest.

What ethical guidelines do you think fertility doctors should be bound by?

They should be bound by the heath concerns of their patients.

one woman having that many children can lead a range of problems from physiological concerns such as a increased risk of having a prolapsed uterus or incontinence and mental concerns such as depression and anxiety from being overwhelmed. Not to mention the health and mental well being of the other children.

Thats why a thorough history and risk assessment should be done prior to fertility treatment.

I've heard the patient lied to the doctor, but rather she did or not, An investigation should be done to see what counseling the doctor gave his/her patient and why this option for fertility treatment went forward.

This freakish episode is the result of 12 years of the Republican War on Common Sense and Science.

I don't believe the doctor's should be held responsible. This woman is the only one at fault, considering that she admitted to Yolanda Garcia (a former caretaker for one of her children) that she's getting paid for having so many children, I can't help but think that money is what's motivating her to do this. If she loves children so much, why didn't she pursue her career in childcare??? Apparently this woman is working on her master's degree, when does she see her kids? As a responsible parent you ensure a job before you have a baby and if for any reason you couldn't, then you ensure it as soon as possible, she had plenty of time to ensure a job or career. I only hope that the media doesn't encourage this type of irresponsible reasoning. It seems that a tv network has been creating reality shows about large families, I hope they don't start a show following her family. Someone mentioned that other families are taking advantage of the publicity, families that have eight kids and more. However, these families are couples with JOBS and these shows started after all of these kids were born. The octuplet's mom, on the other hand, is a single mom with no job and, COINCIDENTLY, had all eight kids after all these shows

John Toradze Regarding the medical bills, I don't care. Why? Because this is nothing in the total picture. There are so many old people who are going to be a burden on society getting care they can't pay for it's pathetic.

John, you are a total freaking idiot. Old people have paid their dues to society, and by GOD, they deserve medical care. I am one of those people, and I am getting care that I need. When I was able to work, I held 2 and 3 jobs just to be able to feed and clothe myself. Why? Because I was single with no dependents HALF of every check went into taxes, a good portion to help support these kids because one or both parents had no self control. DON'T YOU DARE SIT THERE AND RAG ON OLDER PEOPLE WHO IN SOME CASES HAVE MORE THAN PAID THEIR DUES TO THIS MESSED UP SOCIETY. How DARE you. I'm glad you are not in front of me right now, I would make sure you spent the rest of your miserable life sounding like a little girl.

Ah, news flash. 8 years Republican, 4 years "It aint sex" Clinton. At least get the timetable right.

I think that the doctors responsible for the fertility treatment or embrio transplant should be made FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE for the support of these children until they are 18 !!

There is another vine on this and she is not married (does not want to be) and this was invitro using sperm donor.

Here is the delimma...

Do we as a society help her out financially and thereby encourage her and others to continue?

or ....

Not and risk the children not having the care they need?

If she was using a simple fertility pill, she was responsible for the outcome. If the doctor transplanted in more than 2 fetuses or gave the patient fertility pills without informing the patient of a plan to abort extra fetuses for the sake of the mother and remaining fetuses, he goofed. If she had agreed to the plan and then changed her mind, do not blame the doctor because he is not allowed to force her to do otherwise!

It is the responsibility not of the doctor but of society to deal with bigger questions like fertility, birth control, abortions, using fetuses instead of cord or blood or bone for stem cells (without even having a way to keep the stems cells from growing like cancer), euthanasia, etc.

This discussion is good and needed. Society should make the law and expect the doctor to follow it to the best of his ability to do so without offending God.

As for the idea of a woman who already has more than 2 children expecting society to spend its scarce resources for her selfish desire to have more genetic children - why shouldn't medical insurance companies deny costly elective procedures that do not enhance the health of the insured so that the resources will be there for patients who need medical care? And why shouldn't society have limits to prevent someone from usurping an unfair share of the common resources (be they day traders or capitalists stealing capital from the nation or people who could but do not work or ...). Half of the country already hates "entitlements" and any abuse of same could only grow that number.

As for the children, we can only hope that all of the already born will be treated like the children of God, which is what they are.

This is AlQuida planning ahead to produce future terrorists in mulitiple in our country. These children are being born here for American status but being brought up with Alquida's brainwashing. What better than to blend in with our society, yet be the enemy. This may be far fetched however it should be considered. One plus one doesn't seem to equal two here. This family is acting shady and hiding from the public and the facts and questions are being avoided on the eight babies and how they were conceived. Fourteen kids and counting. Their army is growing. What do you think?

What were the doctors thinking you say? Probably, how they would see their names in all the medical publications around the world, in broadcast news and newspapers, etc., telling how they were finally able to secure a guinea pig.... I mean a test subject..... no, I mean a mental specimen, who would let them pack a litter of babies inside them, so that they could study it. They simply wanted to test the limitations of just how many subjects they could stuff inside the woman (like how a clown car would do it)...... and for a price, she let them.

To the fertility specialists, listen you "diddle doctors". Just because a mental person comes to you and say "fill 'em up" doesn't excuse your part in this, by saying "she let me". If you just wanted to see someone with a bunch of babies piled up in them, you should have just stuck to impregnating fish, rats, spiders, dogs, cats, roaches, strange bugs, etc, not some woman, who has obviously gone mental.

The ONLY innocents in this who sideshow are those little babies, and her other 6 kids. For their sakes only, I hope that everything turns out alright for them all.

You know ....

a bartender has the right to tell a customer you have had too much, and I am going to call you a cab buddy....

why can't the doctor... knowing the patients history say no.

Exactly, Dragonwoman. The IVF Dr. should have a screening process to be sure the prospective parent can handle this, and implanting 8 at once is dangerous to the mother and all the babies.

A person who lives with 4 cats is a cat-lover...a person who lives with 47 cats has mental health problems that should be addressed. I can sympathize with a woman wanting a baby even if she doesn't have a husband...but this woman's desires indicate an unhealthy obsession (as even her own mother said). Such an obsession is unlikely to lead to good parenting. I've known a couple of women who kept popping out babies because they adored BABIES. Their babies were adored. Meanwhile their older kids were being neglected (and in one case molested by a stepfather) while Mom was only interested in babies babies more babies. If you want to collect limitless numbers of something cute, cultivate an interest in Hummel figures or Beanie Babies. Human babies aren't just cute things to collect in large numbers.

If raising a few kids doesn't exhaust you mentally, physically, and emotionally, you're not giving your kids enough. If you think an impoverished single mom can do justice for 14 children under the age of 8, you have no idea what it means to be an "awesome" parent. I'm not wild about the Duggars, but their children are spaced out (so the older kids help w/ younger kids) and they have enough money to support their clan. Celebrity couples collecting orphans-around-the-world creep me out too, but they have the resources to handle it AND they're rescuing these kids from a miserable future not willfully creating babies they'll expect the public to support.

P.S. I don't give a rat's tail about this woman's ethnicity. I just think people should consider babies a major responsibility not a cute thing to collect. I raised ONE child (with help from her father sometimes) and gave her my all. She turned out great. If I'd had ten or twenty kids I couldn't have done as well.

Now I'm middle-aged and my health is failing badly, so I wonder if John T. thinks I don't deserve to be a "burden" on society? What will you do with us John, when our bodies wear out? Turn us into Soylent Green to feed the toddlers of people who just couldn't resist having a dozen or more babies?

I think that it is crazy that people are sayingthat doctors have the right to tell us how many kids we should or should not have. I myself did IVF and I had 3 kids already. We don't know the whole story and shouldn't know as it is none of our business. America is about freedom but yet some want our freedom to make our own choices on how many kids someone can have. Get real and get over yourselves.

A woman near my hometown had 3 kids and did IVF for the simple reason she wasn't getting pregnant as fast as she wanted. See they had two older kids and then a 2 year old and wanted that one to have a playmate so they wouldn't feel like an only child when they were older. They ended up with 5 playmates for the 2 year old. They got all sorts of public showers and people asking for donations for them. The quints are 2 themselves now and recently were in the paper. The parents are whining about not having enough room. I don't feel sorry for them and will not donate a single cent. They get enough of my tax money.

I would probably have to go on drugs to get pregnant and refuse to do it. I do believe there is a reason some people can't get pregnant, including possibly myself. I may try some natural methods to regulate my hormones but it won't stimulate extra eggs or let some doctor play God with my body.

It is everyone's business if we have to pay for 14 kids, mother etc.. And who is thinking of the children? Most times in multiple births there are health problems. How is that thinking of the children. Some or all of them might possibly have health issues, serious ones. What happend to having one at a time.

I do not understand this at all? Whan the story first hit the airwaves all I heard was just leave us alone! People who have kids have got to raise their own kids or sometimes Grandmaw and paw does or at least helps. Why does she feel that she should get free food, diapers and a house, talk shows and money from the government for her kids? This is so crazy and anyone that gives this person a red cent will never get my business again nor will I watch a talk show that has this person on it. There was a day when a person had respect for them selves and did not take handouts without returning the favor! To have kids to make money.... I guess to some this is the oldest write off in the book and that is how and only way they live because they are to lazy to do it the old fashion way.. Work for it! My opinion is my opinion but by the way it sounds is it is also my tax dollars! Does anyone know how much is a tax write off for a single parent? How much goevernment help funds does she get? Food stamps? Free school lunches, clothes etc.? Please email me at skinnytie@yahoo.com I would like to start a form of signatures against this happening again. This is wrong, wrong for ALL the wrong reasons!

I do not understand this at all? Whan the story first hit the airwaves all I heard was just leave us alone! People who have kids have got to raise their own kids or sometimes Grandmaw and paw does or at least helps. Why does she feel that she should get free food, diapers and a house, talk shows and money from the government for her kids? This is so crazy and anyone that gives this person a red cent will never get my business again nor will I watch a talk show that has this person on it. There was a day when a person had respect for them selves and did not take handouts without returning the favor! To have kids to make money.... I guess to some this is the oldest write off in the book and that is how and only way they live because they are to lazy to do it the old fashion way.. Work for it! My opinion is my opinion but by the way it sounds is it is also my tax dollars! Does anyone know how much is a tax write off for a single parent? How much goevernment help funds does she get? Food stamps? Free school lunches, clothes etc.? Please email me at skinnytie@yahoo.com I would like to start a form of signatures against this happening again. This is wrong, wrong for ALL the wrong reasons!

terrible, terrible, terrible. In haiti, some "parents" list their children as hiv positive and give them drugs which do harm them just for the money. its about this nut job being a bigger star than angelina and brad for a week and then the poor kids pay all their lives..... Dont watch any reality shows, this is not reality at all except that the taxpayers lose again.

Seems to me that the fertility clinic is responsible for these children, and should support them when the parent can't, of won't.

The whole medical community that was involved in this should be held responsible and be able to hide behind the screen of "I'm not one to dictate the size of a family" They should have to cover the cost of raising these kids till they are 18 years of age and beyond if they go to college. Then maybe next time they would be more careful of what they are doing.