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[phinnia]

Two about kids today:

from reannon, the best (and sexiest!) author/journalist/mother I know: monument to Bush shoe-throwing shines at Iraqi orphanage. you can't NOT laugh at this. I really don't think it's possible.

and from the marvelous anneheart: parents of octuplets have six other children. If I had fourteen children under the age of ten ... I've got nothing here, because my brain gets stuck. I have seen DAY CARES with less children in them. What the freaking HELL WHAT. I have enough trouble with one child. Fourteen is flat-out insanity. And many, many of them IN DIAPERS. no. just - *incoherent* I have no idea why she didn't stop after SIX, frankly. How does any family financially or otherwise support fourteen children?

And another from foxestacado, whose clickies bring EVERYONE to the yard: a real-life extra: paid 100 dollars to sit around and look employed.

Am feeling somewhat better, although tired and still frustrated about not getting anything done today besides cleaning. Only half an hour until the boy comes home, too.

Comments

14 kids?

[sirriamnis.livejournal.com]

So, elsewhere on the internetz I have seen wagers as to whether the parents are LDS or Quiverfull.

[inlaterdays.livejournal.com]

I can't understand why a couple with six children would be using fertility treatments, because - surely they know they're fertile?

Fourteen small children - the mind just boggles.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

Aw, sweetie. Thanks for the compliments. :)

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Actually ... it's not really "parents of octuplets have six other children." The mother of the eight new babies is divorced, separated, or unmarried (I haven't seen any article that really says which it is) and lives with her parents. Her dad is going to Iraq fairly soon, where he's a contractor.

So the only people at home who are going to be raising these fourteen children are the octuplets' mom and her own mother.

The octuplets' mom had fertility treatments because she wanted one more kid (WHY?) and ended up with eight.

Insanity.

[phoenixsong]

Wait, I thought the one going to Iraq was the father of the 14 kids?

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Nope, it's the babies' grandfather. Here's an article from today's ABC News:

Octuplets' Mom

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

>>How does any family financially or otherwise support fourteen children?<<

they do what the duggars did and sell their story for tv specials. (i think there are eighteen duggar kids. i feel so bad for the mom, having to have borne all those babies. her poor uterus is shrieking "no more! no more! for the love of god, woman, leave me alone!")

but if the octuplet parents already had six kids, why did they think they needed fertility drugs? what's wrong with those people?

edit now that i've actually read the article.... >.< the mom's dad sounds kind of suspicious - "we have a bigger house, not here, that you'll never find". ooookay.

[kengr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull

[hithah.livejournal.com]

Octomom is a local story here and is garnering much press. She has no visible means of support, has at one point filed for bankruptcy, and has a string of job dismissals and abandoned homes behind her. Grandpa looks like the only income she has, though one would guess she's got some governmental support as well (or has in the past), meaning this is my tax dollars at work. :-/

Speculation is that she's hoping for the freebies multiple births sometimes get from companies, such as the vans GM gave to an octuplet family a few years ago. Whether hiding from the press and demanding anonymity means this guess is wrong, or is their attempt to get even more attention is up for debate. Either way, she's so unpopular, at least locally, that I doubt many companies will be lining up to give her free stuff. It could be a PR disaster for them.

Octomom's mom said that octomom had IVF, which means some crazy doctor out there implanted eight fertilized embryos. Who *does* that, regardless of how many kids she has had in the past, and regardless of how fertile she is or isn't? That's just mind-blowing.

The infertility community is up in arms, upset that this is making them all look like morons. Questions abound as to whether octomom managed to dupe the fertility clinic into thinking she was childless, and whether she even had a psych evaluation before the treatment. Such an odd, odd story.

Oh, and for the people suggesting this family is Quiverfull, Quiverfull people don't believe in fertility treatment just like they don't believe in contraceptives, because they believe it usurps God's authority in giving or not giving children, so that's not what's going on here...

[phoenixsong]

But it would be a Christian pro-lifer who would pick a doctor who would implant all eight (or more! since the 8th was a surprise at delivery) embryos rather than only doing one or two and freezing/donating the rest, and then refuse selective reduction. Or someone who couldn't afford multiple fertility treatments. (But could afford 7+ kids? Uh...)

Thank goodness, there ARE fertility specialists who would refuse to implant that many at once. Honestly, I'm shocked she even got to 30 weeks with 8 kids in there.

[awils1.livejournal.com]

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