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Posted: Sat May 09, 2009 2:18 pm
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O.O well that topic made it through about five posts without taking a monumental tangent ^.^
The thing that really gets to me about this woman is that any money she does have is not used to support her children. She buys expensive clothing and gets plastic surgery in an attempt to look like a celebrity. I think (my own personal theory here) that she was hoping the publicity surrounding her pregnancy and her 14 children would magically generate fame and fortune for her. She really reminds me of girls in high school who try to get pregnant so that people will give them attention, or so that the dad will be trapped into financially supporting them.
RE: M&HW's statement, I actually agree to some degree, but I don't think it's appropriate for you to press your personal morals on other people. I believe that it would be morally wrong for me, personally, to create more lives for the world to feed. If I wind up pregnant despite my best efforts to avoid it or by circumstances beyond my control, then sure I'll have a baby. But I'm not planning on it. There are enough children in the world who desperately need loving and supportive parents. If I feel I am in a position to support a child appropriately, I will adopt one. Probably a girl, from an area where orphans are at high risk for prostitution. If I can give one kid the opportunity for a better life than she would have had otherwise, that is way more important to me than passing on my own defective genes.
Back to the topic at hand, I think the woman in question started asking for donations because people were leaving horrific messages on her voicemail because they thought she was going to detract from society by relying on welfare. Personally, I think that she should have most of her children taken away and placed with foster families. She is clearly incapable of caring for them on her own. Yes, it sucks balls to have sibling groups split up, and yes, there are a few bad people and bad situations in the foster system. But that would be cheaper to society on the whole than having her try to live on welfare. And seriously, even if she gets a job, she would need a six-figure income to support all those kids. As if that's going to happen.
I vote that she get court-appointed psychotherapy and her kids go live with people who are actually willing and able to care for them properly instead of going on shopping sprees to look good for the tabloid cameras.
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Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:14 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 6:10 pm
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