Sunday, February 15, 2009

Babies, Babies, and More Babies....and There Mother

At 5 p.m. on MS NBC Dateline, an interview with the mother of octuplets was conducted. After watching it, more disgust overwhelmed me. One aspect of the interview that made me a little angered was when the mother had said she currently has NO income coming in. She is a single mother who is going back to school. She said she still plans to continue school, but in return, that allows her to be unable to hold a job. She also said that money is coming into the family through student loans and disability checks because she currently has three children who are disabled, however, her student loans are already used. Basically, she is a single mother of 14 children with NO source of money to raise them. She also claims to not be on welfare, but she is on food stamps in which she "hopes to be off when she graduates from college." The whole interview was disgusting. My question is, why did she feel the need to bring eight more children into her life at that particular time? Why did she not wait until she was finished with school and she had some source of income? Personally, I the recent pregnancy was a great way out of her existing lifestyle. She was a struggling mother of six children, had no job and no source of income, and decided to take the easy way out...having more children to claim fame. Her situation is a historical one and she knew that being a young, single mother she would get the public attention. She has more than likely accumulated thousands of dollars from interviews and speaking to the public, which in her situation helps her dearly. It's pathetic.
This woman is a selfish woman who has decided to put her children in a dire situation in order to help her financial status. What happens to the other children with eight more babies? How does one woman take care of 14 children and give enough attention to each one including one with autism? I recently worked at a daycare and state laws require there be one adult over the age of 18 for every four children. In her situation, she would need at least three people 24/7 to care for her children aside from the other every day duties a person holds.
I thought after seeing her interview and giving her a chance to speak out I would be able to understand her and her situation better, but the interview only made me more disgusted and truly proved how selfish this mother is.

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