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These diapers hold a lot of, well...you know
Suleman is already prepping to do television interviews with media powerhouse Oprah Winfrey and Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer, and hopes that her story compels companies to kick in with corporate sponsorships. High priority: Diapers, since she's going to be changing well over 250 of them a week for the next couple of years. Also, the woman who described herself as a "professional student" (and whose mother calls her "obsessed" with having kids) plans to have "a career as a television childcare expert," according to the Australian. Right now she's living off student loans and grants, and living in the Whittier home her parents bought her--right before they found themselves in so much debt they wound up declaring bankruptcy and moving in with her.
But Suleman's shining star might be a bit too tarnished. Not only did her own mother, Angela Suleman, paint her daughter in a less-than-flattering light, but details about the single mom's pregnancies, particularly this last one, are raising more than just eyebrows--they're raising some serious ethical questions.
All of Suleman's children were born through in vitro fertlilization, and there is speculation that she lied to her current doctor in order to be allowed to have her last 4 frozen embryos be planted. The 4 became 8 due to her hyperstimulated reproductive system, but "in choosing to carry all eight to term, Ms Suleman ignored guidelines, risking both their health and her own." Experts question the choice to implant so many, as well as remarked that IVF patients must pass a psychological evaluation before undergoing the procedure.
Suleman was allegedly asked if she would be willing to abort some of the fetuses when she learned she was carrying 7 (the 8th was a delivery room surprise), but she did not want to do so. Fortunately, all 8 babies, which arrived 9 weeks early and were delivered by caesarian with the help of 46 doctors at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower, are doing well, although will remain in the hospital for some time. Suleman remains in the hospital as well. When she is released, her mother has warned her that she and her father, Ed, will no longer be caring for the children as they are now; Mr. Suleman plans to return to his native Iraq to work as a translator.
Nadya Suleman is relying on the public's help to care for her 14 children, which include a set of 2-year-old twins and one autistic son, all of whom are under 7 years old. She broke up with her last boyfriend before the birth of her first child, and while the paternity of her octuplets is not known, it's believed she used a sperm donation from a friend.
But Suleman's story is for sale now. Are you buying it?
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this woman should be PUT IN JAIL, not rewarded! she is mentally ill dude.
People should not have children if they can't afford to provide for them, rewarding this behavior is sickening
this story represents everything that has put this country in such a screwed up position currently. in a word, selfishness.
am i wrong, or will her child tax credit for her litter be $14,000? that should buy plenty of diapers.
Diapers for eight children are estimated to cost $20,000 annually. eeek!
That's why cloth diapers exist! More expensive up front, but at least she won't need her own landfill.
Something tells me she's not so worried about landfills.
LOL Jacy, you read my mind! I'm thinking if she's bright enough to bring 14 children into the world through artificial means, drive her parents into bankruptcy (and out of the country) then she's not the kind of forward thinker who believes in cloth diapers and other "reduce-reuse-recycle" modes of conduct.
I hate entitlement parents. Ever read some of the requests on freecycle? "I want tickets to Disneyland for spawn's 5th birthday party... we plan to bring 10 people." "I need a new laptop computer." "I'd like baby gear, preferably new, stroller, crib, changing table and swing." Personally, I think even baby showers are tacky. Total gift-grab. My boyfriend and I make pretty decent money combined, and yet we're planning on, like, 2 max. College expenses are a bitch.
(In Australia they actually pay you $5,000 when you have a kid. She would have gotten $40,000!) Can you say, "Abuse of the system?" I don't know what the qualifications of the poverty line are for a household of 15, but it's around $20,000 for a family of 4. And she really has no steady income to speak of. Food stamps and WIC it is. She can probably get a ton of cash assistance from the government too. And then there are the suckers who actually WILL give her money and supplies.
sounds like fabric diapers are the way to go for her.
"Nadya Suleman is relying on the public's help to care for her 14 children..."
Fuck this mentally unbalanced attention whore and her 14 little tax burdens. I hope she gets nothing.
I hope oprah brings her out on stage and kicks her in the ass for being so stupid.
This has Lifetime "Movie of the week" written all over it.
ugh, these poor fucking kids
Insane... How is it that the doctors AGREED to help this woman have MORE kids? WTF People?!?!?!
It's a weird world where I can't keep four dogs on my property without being legally obligated to pursue a city-issued kennel permit, but people like this woman can produce 14 children. And who's to say she won't make some more?
GAG
Can someone offer her a hysterectomy
i have an idea. she can sell ad space on her kids. wrap them up like they wrap up all those buildings
im a fucking genius!!!
something tells that's not out of the question for her
that's some mighty tiny ad space right now--at around 1 lb each her human billboards would be all about the fine print.
maybe just one letter per baby, all arranged to spell out the brand name.
or, screw the text and just go with a logo. that new pepsi logo would look great on a tiny baby.
Oh good god. This is just sick and wrong.
Eww. Just, eww.
i just had a conversation about this last night. if she knew that she couldn't afford them than she shouldn't have had them. now that they are here, she should give them up to childless couples.
it's hardcore but come on.
This woman is like one of those crazy cat women except instead of collecting 14 cats she's done it with babies. Obviously somehow her mental illness somehow was not detected by the appropriate medical personnel, so there is a minimum of neglience by those professionals and probably fraud on Nadya Suleman's part. I keep imagining that she started out as a mad collector, with a house full of stuffed animals, or at least the package shelf in her car crammed with them, and it's all gone horribly wrong now with the births of babies #3 through #14.
CPS/Social Services needs to be called in on this psycho (not that they're any better). You can't tell me her current living situation is conducive for 15+ people!!! Someone dropped the ball on this psych eval. A single, jobless person WHO ALREADY HAS SIX little phuckers running around wants even one more?!? It's sickening when I think of all the people who can't have their own kids and here this freak is exploiting her unfortunately-fertile uterus for money (and kids) she doesn't deserve.