The Octuplet Mama

[IDrinkaRum]

The Grandpa of the 14 children will be on Oprah Feb. 24 - he says they need money and to please donate

He also acknowledges that his daughter needs help mentally.

[IDrinkaRum]

Nadya Suleman fears the hospital where the 8 babies are at will not be giving her them after all

Nadya Suleman has taped 2 episodes on the Dr. Phil show. She's also called Dr. Phil and told him that unless she can prove she can provide adequately for the care of her octuplets, the hospital is prepared not to give them to her.

[blas87]

Good. Let's hope the hospital WON'T give them to her, and finds them good families who can actually provide for them.

[Sylvia727]

Seconded, but I'll amend that to "a good family" or possibly "two good families" as I think siblings should be kept as much together as possible.

[Flyndaran]

I bet she eventually gets them especially as gullible idiots throw money at her feeding her narcisistic user personality.

[IDrinkaRum]

Article in Newsweek saying we're wrong for feeling the way we do about the OctoMom

Is the article correct or is the writer just full of it?

[Lace Neil Singer]

Full of it. If they love Octomum so much, then they can fork out for her costs.

[IDrinkaRum]

I completely agree with you LNS. I was just like: "You know, this reporter is full of stuff", but you might never know ...

[DesignFox]

Calling this bottom dweller "octomom" keeps making me think of an octopus...which is funny because even the writer uses that pun... and even funnier when you look at the crazy face Nadya is making in the picture. *snicker*

All cruel joking aside, I can kinda see what the writer is saying- that our morbid fascination with watching a train wreck has created monsters like this. If we just didn't pay attention, people wouldn't go out of their way to shock us.

I disagree with the sentiment, mostly because the examples stated have nothing in common with Nadya Suleman and her doctor's bad decisions.

Angelina Jolie can afford to have as many kids as she wants. She can go ahead an adopt an entire third world country for all I care- she's paying for it, not the tax payers.

The bank bail-out? I won't get started on those *censored* but I believe the idea behind that was to help a variety of people- not more heavily burden them (whether or not this has occurred is highly debatable).

And comparing Suleman to the Duggars or John and Kate? Well, Suleman didn't WANT a TV show. So, NO she didn't intend to pay the bills that way.

ALSO- I don't think John and Kate INTENDED to have 6 kids at once- not to mention the fact that they had only TWO at the time they were undergoing treatment. As for the Duggars, so far as I know, they have done things the natural way. So, those two families do not even COMPARE to Suleman's.

I call Bullshit. With a capital B.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Not to mention the point given earlier in the thread; the Duggars do at least pay their way, and don't rely on government hand outs.

[AdminAssistant]

Not to mention the point given earlier in the thread; the Duggars do at least pay their way...

The Duggars are given considerable support from their church - I think the husband is a preacher or deacon or somesuch. I don't watch the show, partially because I don't get that channel, partially because I've known about them for years (Arkansas native). Ugh, Northwest Arkansas......

[IDrinkaRum]

Rental 4-room house for the new mom and oh yeah, she can't keep at least a set of twins under control - one even hit her!

[Boozy]

Article in Newsweek saying we're wrong for feeling the way we do about the OctoMom

Is the article correct or is the writer just full of it?

I don't know that people are necessarily wrong for feeling the way they do, but I will say that I think it's crazy that people feel as strongly as they do.

Why all this vitriol directed at one mentally-imbalanced woman? There are probably millions of people doing worse things to the world on a daily basis. Why does everyone despise her so much? Why does she get all the outrage when the world is full of corrupt politicians, corporate polluters, ruthless dictators, and plain-old murderers?

[Lace Neil Singer]

Probably cuz they don't court the spotlight and crave attention, like she obviously does. She wanted attention; now she's got it; if it's bad, then tough; she brought it on herself.

[MystyGlyttyr]

1. Every time I see her, that woman looks freakier and freakier. Is it just me or are the pictures actually getting weirder?

2. The only reason this bothers me to any degree is because now IVF and multiples and big families are becoming some kind of freaking issue. And that's affecting members of my family because of my nieces, who are triplets. And for those people on the street and in stores who start looking down their noses at my cousins for "having all those kids", the girls were NATURAL triplets. They were my cousin's first pregnancy, within six months of her and her husband even trying to get pregnant, after she came off birth control, and they're even FRATERNAL. The odds were not quite astronomically high, but they were still pretty damn high.

Up until a couple of months ago, there wasn't any real issue aside from the general curious onlookers and the like. But since this mother has become a national scandel, the tone for multiples is starting to get a little uglier. No one has said anything flat out yet, but there's a lot of snickering behind hands and whispering and pointing whenever the girls are out with their parents. I'm kinda looking forward to the day someone finally gets overt with it so I can smash them into the tile without consternation.

Then again, I suppose it's just like so many other things in life...things are going great until one asshole comes along and ruins it for all the rest of us who weren't doing anything wrong.