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[apocalypsos]

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Also, remind me not to read any more articles about the octuplets. I was already uncomfortable with the whole situation (and the avoiding-the-media shit is hilarious ... like, seriously, you morons, how long do you think that's going to last?) and now it comes out that she was taking fertility treatments when she already had six kids at home between the ages of 7 and 2. I have a thing for reading about higher-order multiple births and I can't recall many where the parents had so many children already. The Dionne quints ... and that's about it off the top of my head. And they certainly weren't the result of fertility drugs.

On one hand, it's every woman's choice what to do with her own body and I respect that. On the other hand, I can't decide who's the biggest idiot in this situation -- the mom, the doctors who say stupid shit like, "Who am I to say six is the limit? Some people like big families," which is true until you realize how dangerous eight fucking fetuses crammed into one uterus is and who's supposed to inform the mother of that (oh, right, it's the DOCTOR), or the mom's parents who are all, "They have a huge house, but you'll never find it!" Why, is it invisible? Do you reeeeeaaaaally want to dare the media to look for it? Really? 'Cause they will, and then they won't leave until they get baby pictures. See, you think I'm joking, grandpa ...

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[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Well, a lot of higher-order multiples receive scholarships along with the free diapers and formula and whatnot. She could be banking on that. Or considering all of her other actions, she could just be too selfish for babies to give a damn about later.

Oh, and the two parents? She's unmarried, it seems (she uses the same sperm donor for all of her pregnancies, and yes, that's exactly how I've seen him referred to), and lives with her parents. Her dad's going back to Iraq soon. That leaves her and her mom to take care of fourteen kids. You can't even legally run a daycare center with that ratio of kids to adults.

[animeartistjo.livejournal.com]

And I thought it couldn't get worse.

Imagine, this woman will have a house full of TEENAGERS with all the emotional baggage and attitude in ten years.

Maybe she should've seen a psychologist instead of a fertility clinic. >.>

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

Hell no. You need a third carer and that's if you're working on the assumption that it's one carer to every five kids. You really want two extra carers, since hey, you've got eight newborns here and then another six under seven.

And that's not counting the fact that you've got to look after them 24/7 and the adults need to sleep, too.