8 + 6= Insanity

[flamey_mcflame]

Good grief, what is wrong with people. The worst part, there are now 14 other humans in this world who have inherited these brilliant genes. Move the doomsday clock up a few minutes please.

www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/29/earlyshow/health/main4761676.shtml

[rubecube]

God, her crotch must be ground zero at this point.

[Mrs. Rathji]

There is nothing wrong with these people. Since when was wanting a family and children a terrible thing???? Would I want 14 kids .... no but just because these people did doesn't make them terrible people. Or flawed people. And those "BRILLIANT GENES" you speak of may one day do great things. You can't assume they will want to have a big family because they were born into on. You can't condemn a person because their parents had a big family. I personally wouldn't condemn someone for not terminating a pregnancy because it was 8 babies instead of one. This Mom wanted another child and was blessed with more than that. As long as these children are loved and cared for then there is no reason for you or anyone else to ask what is wrong with them! Closed minded people are really the problem with this world, not people who want and have a family.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Mrs. Rathji

There is nothing wrong with these people. Since when was wanting a family and children a terrible thing???? Would I want 14 kids .... no but just because these people did doesn't make them terrible people. Or flawed people. And those "BRILLIANT GENES" you speak of may one day do great things. You can't assume they will want to have a big family because they were born into on. You can't condemn a person because their parents had a big family. I personally wouldn't condemn someone for not terminating a pregnancy because it was 8 babies instead of one. This Mom wanted another child and was blessed with more than that. As long as these children are loved and cared for then there is no reason for you or anyone else to ask what is wrong with them! Closed minded people are really the problem with this world, not people who want and have a family.

[Weiser Wonder]

I laugh at that poster every single time it's posted.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder

I laugh at that poster every single time it's posted.

I hesitated posting it because it's been done so many times before, but in the end I'm happy with my decision.

[metallicat]

That's hilarious, first time seeing the poster for me.

[SteveToms]

Jon and Kate from Jon and Kate plus Eight might have bow out to this family.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Mrs. Rathji

There is nothing wrong with these people. Since when was wanting a family and children a terrible thing???? Would I want 14 kids .... no but just because these people did doesn't make them terrible people. Or flawed people. And those "BRILLIANT GENES" you speak of may one day do great things. You can't assume they will want to have a big family because they were born into on. You can't condemn a person because their parents had a big family. I personally wouldn't condemn someone for not terminating a pregnancy because it was 8 babies instead of one. This Mom wanted another child and was blessed with more than that. As long as these children are loved and cared for then there is no reason for you or anyone else to ask what is wrong with them! Closed minded people are really the problem with this world, not people who want and have a family.

I don't think that anyone is suggesting that they terminate. I think the point is somewhere more in the realm of why would someone who has 6 kids be taking fertility drugs?

If I had 6 kids I would be doing my own home vasectomy with a Zippo lighter and a hacksaw, not going down to the fertility clinic to get some more pills.

But thats just me.

[4X4]

I think it's totally ridiculous. A single mom who lives with her parents has no business going for a seventh. And furthermore, she has no business being on fertility drugs when she's got six and can't support them herself. And don't tell me that it hasn't been confirmed whether she was on fertility drugs, it's pretty obvious that she was. Humans don't give birth to litters.

I feel sorry for these kids. This is not the 1800s where they can all live on the farm and each take up a chore. How in the hell 14 kids are going to co-exist in an urban setting, assumably with minimal parental supervision (I think the mom is going to have to work 25 hours per day to afford to put spaghetti or rice on the table for 15 people), is beyond me. Absolutely ridiculous.

On a side note, imagine how the father of the octuplets feels right now. The guy is probably looking down at his twig and berries and cursing. Imagine what kind of child support payments the poor SOB is going to be on the hook for. I wonder how many dads are involved with the original six...

[nickerjones]

14 is a lot of kids.... growing up my best friend was the oldest of 10 kids.... of course number 10 didnt come til we were already juniors in high school. It did always amuse me how they would take a group out to dinner and then come back home and take the other half out for dinner......

another plus of that situation is the mom didnt really work but she did train most of the miss Oklahomas. In return for the services of the training the beauty queens did work around the house, baby sitting etc...... So point of that story is we always met at his house to decided what to do , that way we could oogle the beauty queens...

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by Mrs. Rathji

As long as these children are loved and cared for then there is no reason for you or anyone else to ask what is wrong with them! Closed minded people are really the problem with this world, not people who want and have a family.

Give me a break. You really think that a single parent with 14 kids will be able to care of these kids at the same level as someone who has 2 or 3? Do you not realize the price of raising a child? Health care costs? School costs? Hell, food costs alone will sink her. To sustain these kids, this woman will have to work 3 jobs.

This woman still lives with her parents, so clearly she is either still young or just hasn't got her life together enough to leave home. How the hell is she mature enough to raise 14 kids? I don't have children myself, but I'm going to make the crazy assumption that loving them and giving them huggy-wuggy's is not enough.

[Nancy]

The outrage is that some doctor actually provided a mother of 6 with fertility treatments. I would have asked for a psych eval first, plus, in a world of scarce medical resources, I hardly think a mother of 6 qualifies as infertile and entitled to such medical treatment.

[bigtmac19]

Apparently she is married, but her husband is in Iraq. That is why she lives with her parents. She is in her early to mid 30's.
I don't agree however with her using fertility drugs when she has had 6 children.
I also don't agree that even with her parents help that those children will all get the time and attention they need.
Also isn't there a huge possibility of some of those babies having lifelong problems from being born so soon, the smallest was only 1.8 lbs.
Who is going to pay for the expected huge costs of health care for these babies?

[cKy]

Originally Posted by SteveToms

Jon and Kate from Jon and Kate plus Eight might have bow out to this family.

Pfft, whatever. Jon and Kates show is 10x better then the lump of crap this family puts on the air. The Duggers have to be the most bland family ever. Who proposes to a girl without even kissing her? EVER?.

Atleast Jon and Kate is funny to watch. Jon says something, and Kate cracks the whip @ it. Its awesome...


uhhhh... ofcourse, I assume this is what it is like since I have never seen the show, ever.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by bigtmac19

Who is going to pay for the expected huge costs of health care for these babies?

Their insurance company.

God Bless America.

Unless of course someone gave someone fertility treatments who can't afford insurance...

[jtfrogger]

I don't see what the issue is, other than it is not what most people would consider normal. I can't imagine that they were aiming for octuplets. They were probably aiming for one. Unfortunately, fertility programs are not so simple to be able to guarantee a specific number of children.

I am the seventh child of seven, eighth if you include a child that died at two months. My parents were not financially wealthy by any stretch of the imagination. But we all turned out just fine. Growing up, I thought my family was nuts. But as I learn more and more about other families, I believe that we have substantially less family strife than the average family of 1-3 children.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by jtfrogger

I don't see what the issue is, other than it is not what most people would consider normal. I can't imagine that they were aiming for octuplets. They were probably aiming for one. Unfortunately, fertility programs are not so simple to be able to guarantee a specific number of children.

If that is what they want in life, then fine. I guess turning out extra kids makes the sweatshop more profitable. I can't wait for my daughter to be able to sew a straight stitch.....

I am the seventh child of seven, eighth if you include a child that died at two months. My parents were not financially wealthy by any stretch of the imagination. But we all turned out just fine. Growing up, I thought my family was nuts. But as I learn more and more about other families, I believe that we have substantially less family strife than the average family of 1-3 children.

I totally agree. The number of kids involved here isn't the issue for me. I do not believe that having more kids makes it any harder to give them the love they need.

I personally think that they should have considered a more gradual pace of childbirth...

[CaptainCrunch]

Thats not a vagina . . . Its a battle station.

[mykalberta]

8 + 6 = 14. Discussion over.