California Octuplets

[Mykhal Jaems]

So does anyone want to weigh in with their opinion?

I must admit that I don't condone 'selective reduction.'

But I also don't agree with 14 kids under the age of 7.

My first thought was how greedy. Wasn't six enough?

The next thought was I hope she has a good job to support all those kids b/c she's going to need $$$ & $$$ & more $$$.

Keep in mind this is just my opinion.

What do you think?

[rumbledoll]

i dont know if i have an opinion but i mostly dont understand the situation. she has 6 children aged 2-7, she lives with her parents (or just mother..not sure about that) and her husband is in the military and not in the home. i just dont understand why she had ivf. maybe once shes in the public eye, the rest of the story will make sense to me. it doesnt now.

[LuvMaui]

I was very surprised when I heard that they already had 6 children. Anyone who would have more than 6 kids has to be nuts anyway.. :eek: LOL.

I really don't know what to say. People are going to do what they want, so the best I can hope is that they will love and support all those little blessings without help from us tax payers ;)

[Mykhal Jaems]

without help from us tax payers ;)

My hope too, I can't imagine that she wouldn't qualify so help though, and she'd be a fool not to take it, she will need it!

Yesterday while waiting for the lunch to be delivered I was talking with the residents about her and the babies.

Some had heard about it others hadn't.

One resident summed up my feelings perfectly. She had this really confused look and thought I was making it all up. And then kept asking "Eight? Why? Are you sure it was EIGHT? Why would someone do that? Fourteen kids under the age of 7?" I think she still thinks I was making it up. You could see her wheels turning as she thought about all those clothes to wash, all that food to make & all those teenagers in the house.

[jcme]

There have been so many "so called" news stories saying "she may have 6 children already and "she may have had fertility treatment" that I really don't know what to think.

I'm very curious as to what truth shakes out of all the speculative news stories. Right now I'm just baffled at the whole situation and the decisions the mother has made seem very irresponisble. I also wonder how somone with that many children who are so close in age will be able to get the proper love and attention they each need during their critical growing years.

Take care

[LuvMaui]

all those teenagers in the house. Now that's a scary thought :p


I also wonder how someone with that many children who are so close in age will be able to get the proper love and attention they each need during their critical growing years. I'm the youngest of 12 children. My personal story is one of a loving Mom, a Father that was always at work making a living to support us all. (My family never took a dime of assistance) However.. I feel like I was always lost in the crowd. I never got my hair fixed pretty like other girls in school. My Mom never attended my school functions, I was tortured by my siblings on a regular basis. The plus side is that I learned at an early age how to take care of myself. All in all, I'm glad my Mom decided to have a 12th child :)

[Sib2of11]

I have 10 siblings. My mother didn't work outside the home and my father worked two jobs. Clothing was handed down from one child to the next, but there was always enough love to go around. My parents did go to school functions and there was never any doubt that we were all loved.

Is the California mom irresponsible? Perhaps. But it was God Who sent those 8 little souls to Earth, so who am I to judge?

[jcme]

I'm the youngest of 12 children. My personal story is one of a loving Mom, a Father that was always at work making a living to support us all. (My family never took a dime of assistance) However.. I feel like I was always lost in the crowd. I never got my hair fixed pretty like other girls in school. My Mom never attended my school functions, I was tortured by my siblings on a regular basis. The plus side is that I learned at an early age how to take care of myself. All in all, I'm glad my Mom decided to have a 12th child :)

Growing up as an only child made me wish for having siblings to torture me ;) I always wished I had the same camraderie and built in playmates as my friends who had siblings.

BTW...My mother never fixed my hair pretty because she was never into that kind of thing. I did learn real quick not to listen to her fashion tips when she sent me to school in a clashing outfit. :eek:

Take care

[Mykhal Jaems]

my father worked two jobs. Clothing was handed down from one child to the next,

According to the latest AP (on Yahoo) news story there is no man in the picture, she has some sort of degree, didn't quit understand what.

I am the oldest of 5 and between my family and another family we handed down clothes, I don't ever remember getting anything new (shoes maybe?). I don't remember going shopping for clothes or shoes, they just always showed up in my closet or dresser. I do however remember standing in the living room and Mom going thru bags of clothes and trying them on and deciding what fit and what didn't. Before school we all had a day we spent going thru our dresser Mom deciding what was school clothes, what was home clothes (we had to change into them right away when we got home from school) and who got the clothes next.

My Mother didn't work outside the home until 4 of us were out of school. Dad worked long hours was gone 12 hours a day usually.

We are all comparing this to our family and I've come to realize that the difference is the time. Even my parents treat my little brother, who graduates this year (he's 18 years younger than me). He got his own car, computer, and a lot of other electronic gadgets. The older kids were expected to have an after school job to be able to pay for these things, he doesn't even know what he's going to do after he graduates yet.

It's a different world and I'm not sure like where it's going.

[LuvMaui]

I saw on the news that the Mother of the 14 is now legally divorced. The man she was married to was not the father of any of the children. The family lives with Grandma and Grandpa. The Grandmother was quoted to say that she could not take on the care of more children. I also heard that the Mother just received her degree in child psychology.

Crazy times for that family. I pray that God will guide and protect them.

[Mykhal Jaems]

The mother's spokesman basically said that she is hoping to make money off of all her children in order to provide for them. I didn't think too much of it, figured that was what she was going for anyway.

Then today on the Discovery Health channel I saw a commercial for '17 children and counting' the show about the Duggar family that now has 18 children. That got me thinking about other shows (Jon & Kate plus 8 came to mind) that glamorizes having bunches of children.

In part it's our fault, we watch these shows (I do at least, until the Gosslin kids start screaming too much, or the Duggar show gets too boring). We keep these shows on the air.

There is no doubt, in my mind, that society is to blame, not completely of course, but it had a part of planting the idea in her mind.

Of course in the end it comes down to her personal decision. I really hope those children don't suffer, but can't imagine how they won't.