I saw this via a Yahoo story and found this to be very interesting.

http://www.radaronline.com/exclusive...ot-capable.php

And this chick needs to stop making only children like me look bad. I never wanted to have a bunch of kids with no husband and no job.

I am an only child.
I have never EVER wanted 14 children to come out of my uterus. EVER.

In. Life!

I seriously think this lady is crazy.

I saw an interview with her and they asked her 'how are you going to do this? You have no job and you live with your mom. How will you feed your children?"

And her response was something to the effect of "I really think God will help us find a way to make it work out".. that = food stamps?!

And then they asked her "why did you do this? You already have 6 children" And her response was "I really didn't think it would take" (the in vitro)

WTF?

Doesn't In Vitro cost a crapload of $$$? And would you REALLY be doing all that thinking "it's not going to work?" I realize that In Vitro doesn't work for everyone, but wouldn't you go into the process prepared to have kids?

Maybe she's hoping to get a free Minivan from Ford and a lifetime supply of Pampers.?

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Found this link on Perez... I love the feeding in shifts, mom WON'T work, clothes all over the house, FOOD all over the walls...

I can't stand Perez. All of the stuff he mentions is from the radaronline article posted above. Either way, I wonder about this woman's mental status, and I'm glad that the CA medical board is looking into this whole situation.

I was thinking the exact same thing....

Supposedly, she needed In Vitro to have all her kids, and she lives at home with her parents? How did she pay for this? And did any doctors examine her mental state? This is such a weird story...

I would imagine since all of her kids were conceived via IVF that she had no reason to believe that this time "it wouldn't work."

BTW, she is already on food stamps and receives disability benefits for three of her older kids...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090210/...PfVMX0PcpvzwcF

this story is frustrating and sad-- but this thread is funny.

e.g. pg 11:

Jen: I really hope that Ann Curry won't be taking the easy way out and not asking her the serious questions.

knight_shadow: I thought that said "Ann Coulter" for some reason

ZTABullwinkle: Isn't Ann Coulter the one who hates single mothers?

HotDamnImAPhiMu: Ann Coulter hates a lot of people.

VandalSquirrel:Including herself I bet.

The full interview with Ann Curry is on Dateline tonight at 10 EST. I feel like I've pretty much seen the whole interview through snippets, but I'm still going to watch.

On the today show today, they showed a part where she admits to spending ~$100,000 on IVF. She talks about she hoarded (she used that word!) all her money for IVF.....and now it comes out all the while she was on welfare. Lovely. Great decision making.

I'm all about kids staying with their birth parents when it is in the best interest of the child, but in this case, honestly I think those kids need to be pulled from this woman.

She is a looney toon (impo). Companies are avoiding her like the plague because of the public outcry. Those poor children have a mom who doesn't work, won't be able to work now, collects disability, is on welfare (food stamps) and the kicker, lives at home.

Actually the real kicker should be that she used her disability (she was getting it from being injured on a job like 6 years ago or something) on IVF. How the hell is that possible?

This whole situation boggles my mind. The mental state of the mother, the mental state of her parents (I have no kids but seriously if my kid was being this much of a dumb ass I would probably kick them out and say you need to be a grown up and do this on your own, I'm not supporting you), and finally the mental, ethical and moral state of her doctors.

What sucks is you know who is going to be screwed in this situation, the kids? Because if CA is like AZ, it is hell and high water to remove a kid from their biological parent if no physical/sexual abuse comes into play.

How sweet.

She ends up with half of her six previous kids having disabilities and has eight more. Wonder if any of these poor kids will have any disabilites?

She gets food stamps and $490/month for those kids. But, she doesn't realize her hospital bill is 1-3 Million dollars. She doesn't realize that someone is going to have to be paid to watch her kids while she goes back to school and then *gasp* if she actually works...

I worry about this situation. It is IMPOSSIBLE to properly care for 14 kids under the age of 7, with 8 being infants on your own or even with one helper. Now, knowing AT LEAST THREE of them have special needs/are disabled? This is craziness. I am all for the kids finding new homes with people who can properly care / provide for them.

If she goes back to school, she can probably dump her kids on the campus children's center for free.

Fabulous. I guess the biggest challenge would be getting 14 kids to the free day care. Transporting that many children in car seats would take a small bus!

I must be going to all the wrong campuses. I've never seen a campus children's center for the students' children - I've seen them for faculty/staff, but not for the students. And the ones I've seen (for faculty/staff) are certainly not free.

I'm waiting to comment on this woman's decisions until I've seen her interview with Ann tonight. I've recorded the part that was on the Today show, but I haven't had a chance to watch it yet. I can't imagine how hard her life is. Nor can I imagine how difficult all this must be for her kids.

"Cocaine is a helluva drug" - Rick James

Nope. No university (or HS for that matter) I've ever attended has had day care for students. My tuition didn't pay for that.

As is denial. :(

If she's got full disability for three kids, that's $2022 per month, and those kids are eligible for Medicaid automatically. Plus $490 in food stamps, which will increase as each child comes home.

But she's "not on welfare."

Ok, says the eligibility worker. Lady, you are on welfare/public assistance/government benefits, whatever you want to call it.

Please use those benefits to sew your uterus closed. It will thank you.

http://asi.fullerton.edu/cc/


Having an on campus child care center is great resource for students and faculty staff. The community college near me has a brand new day care center too. Usually they are staffed by students in the child development program. One of the high schools near me was built with a child care center facility, but its used by a separate adult education program as a co-op pre-school and for parent ed classes run by the community college district. The high school district apparently decided against high school students having their babies on campus at a traditional high school.

I think for some grandparents it's hard to deny their grandchildren, no matter how screwed up their own children are. Putting her on the street would be putting these kids on the street as well.

My school does have an on-campus childcare center/preschool (from birth-grade 1)that's staffed by ECED students but I can tell you that it is DEFINITELY NOT FREE. I volunteered there and I believe the rate was something like $75/week plus cost of lunches and field trips.

I would imagine that not every school has this (we're one of like 3 in our state with one), and if they do, it's not free.

And, even if there is daycare, 14 slots is an aweful lot of slots to take up for one parent's benefit.

It's so frustrating.... if this lady seriously thinks she's not on assistance she needs to get her head checked!

And I cannot believe how she somehow saved $100K for IVF. Un-effing-believable.

Amen to that!

And as far as saving 100K for IVF, I call BS on that too

I had always thought that she had gotten plastic surgery in order to look like a certain humanitarian actress with six kids....


"Nadya Suleman denies that she's on welfare, but she is: she receives food stamps and government aid because three of her other 6 kids are disabled. Which begs the question: If she needs food stamps to feed her kids, how the hell can she afford all that plastic surgery and those freakin' manicures?..."


http://www.theinsider.com/news/16580...lastic_Surgery

Whoever could that be? I agree though...just one more thing that makes me :eek:.

If you want to become an ivf egg donor, you have to go through a mental health evaluation.

It's a shame it's not a requirement for being an ivf egg "donee", or patient.

Did she have an egg donor?

I thought they were her own eggs.

Yes, but she went through ivf. So, if she were to donate her eggs to someone else, she would have had to have had a mental health evaluation. She used her own, but had to go to a fertility clinic - and judging by what we know, no one so much as said "boo!" when a mother of 6 came in and wanted more than 4 embryos implanted; the unmarried, unemployed mother of 6, 3 of whom are special needs. She never would have been approved for adoption . . . and yet she was able to be implanted with a litter.

She's on Dateline right now -- instead of my beloved SVU!

That makes me crazy. I want to watch, but am afraid if I do it will just be encouraging her delusions. No plastic surgery my ass....

I flipped the channel right after the Biggest Loser; I don't want to contribute to this woman in anyway.

She's definitely had work -- she can't even speak properly because her upper lip is so big.

She was "finally" pregnant at 25? WTF?!?! I'm going to be 25 in May! That is not finally!

Is it just me or do any of you think she resembles Angelina Jolie?????

I will not have you speaking of Angelina in that way!

But truth be told, aside from the upper lip, the mother isn't unattractive.

OMG, I know! 25 seems so young for IVF!

Really? lol, it must just be me. Although I don't think Angelina is that attractive.

I'm sad that Dateline isn't showing right now, so I can't see what everyone is talking about :( booo.