[Kosh]

Seriously these people just shouldn't have children unless they can properly take care of them

Nadya Suleman, the mother of the octuplets born last month, gets $490 a month in food stamps, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday evening. Three of her first children also get federal supplemental security income because they are disabled, the Times reported.

Suleman's publicist, Michael Furtney, confirmed the information.

During an interview with Ann Curry on the TODAY show, Suleman denied being on welfare. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of NBC Universal and Microsoft.)

Suleman told NBC News correspondent Ann Curry in an interview that she was not receiving welfare. Furtney said Suleman didn't consider the food stamps and SSI to be welfare.

[StarSlayer]

Seriously the fertility doctor should be brought up on charges, there is no reason this woman should be having eight additional kids when she already has six and lives with her parents in a small home.

[General Battuta]

Seriously the fertility doctor should be brought up on charges, there is no reason this woman should be having eight additional kids when she already has six and lives with her parents in a small home.

I don't think the doctor can control how many kids come out.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

He can if he implanted them artificially in the first place.

[Dark RevenantX]

It's just like Africa.  Only with more kids.  And stupider people.  And a government that actually helps the family somewhat.

[S-99]

More kids to keep the house spick and span. This is the problem of todays fertility treatments. More than enough kids. Certainly wont help over population issues either. I hope the family can move into a bigger house eventually and have a good extended family household.

Also the human body isn't really meant to go through the stress of carrying so many kids at once. The doctor does not control how many kids come out. Fertility treatments really ramp up the chances of a mother having a kid since that's what they're designed to do. I don't know if doctors are doing anything to not ramp up the chances of somebody just wanting a kid or two as opposed to 8.

People today getting together and wanting to have kids...i wonder if future parents cringe at the idea of having so many kids should their wife need fertility treatments to be able to get pregnant (i know i wouldn't like that possibility, a much lower amount of kids is more than enough trouble for parents as it is after they have come into the world).

[Nuke]

well, should things get tight she can always kill one of them and feed it to the others.

[Kosh]

well, should things get tight she can always kill one of them and feed it to the others.

Isn't that illegal?

[Dilmah G]

well, should things get tight she can always kill one of them and feed it to the others.

Isn't that illegal?

Not in Nuke's world

It's just like Africa.  Only with more kids.  And stupider people.  And a government that actually helps the family somewhat.

True IMO, seriously, 8 KIDS! More to love my ****in ass!

[Bob-san]

She already had 6. I could understand it if it was a her first kids or even her second, but when she already has 6?!?!? God bless those children--they'll need it!

[iamzack]

I'd say that the children should be removed from her care, but that wouldn't help at all. They'd still be living on the government's dime and they'd be tangled up in the fostercare system... At least the woman's parents are involved. They seem pretty sane.

[Dilmah G]

At least the woman's parents are involved. They seem pretty sane.

Your basing this on?

[iamzack]

It's been on the news for a while. There was a statement from the mother in another article where she was talking about how there was no way her daughter should be having more children, but she can't really do anything about it.

[Darius]

Seriously the fertility doctor should be brought up on charges, there is no reason this woman should be having eight additional kids when she already has six and lives with her parents in a small home.

I had this case come up at uni regarding medical ethics. Really the doctor's not to blame. His jurisdiction ends at putting the eight embryos in to increase the chance of at least one surviving. It's up to the patient to have them removed later, and if she wants to carry them to term...well the doctor can advise her on what would medically be the best thing to do, but some people either don't know what's good for them, or have their own ideas of what to do with their body.

It's quite frustrating when you're a doctor and you've got a patient who doesn't want what's best for them.

[StarSlayer]

Seriously the fertility doctor should be brought up on charges, there is no reason this woman should be having eight additional kids when she already has six and lives with her parents in a small home.

I don't think the doctor can control how many kids come out.

Well looks like somebody agrees with me...
 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29057426/


@ Darius she used the same clinic for all her children, it's not as though they wouldn't have known this woman was doing something that was medically dangerous, and arguably beyond her ability to support.

[darkone]

You go through a medical screening process before that type of procedure can be done. How can any doctor (in there right mind) overlook the fact that she has three kids already. How in the world can they tend to 14 kids? Might as well have everyone send them money because welfare is going to be sending them a nice check every month and this is the type of thing our taxes pay for...

[General Battuta]

You go through a medical screening process before that type of procedure can be done. How can any doctor (in there right mind) overlook the fact that she has three kids already. How in the world can they tend to 14 kids? Might as well have everyone send them money because welfare is going to be sending them a nice check every month and this is the type of thing our taxes pay for...

Arguably, it's because the doctor isn't ethically allowed to make social decisions for his patient.

Seriously the fertility doctor should be brought up on charges, there is no reason this woman should be having eight additional kids when she already has six and lives with her parents in a small home.

I don't think the doctor can control how many kids come out.

Well looks like somebody agrees with me...
 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29057426/


@ Darius she used the same clinic for all her children, it's not as though they wouldn't have known this woman was doing something that was medically dangerous, and arguably beyond her ability to support.

And as you can see, the number of embryos that finally come out as kids isn't exactly predictable.

[redsniper]

What they should have done was manipulate the embryos so that one got all the dominant soldier genes while another got the recessive genes and abort the other six.

[Galemp]

What they should have done was manipulate the embryos so that one got all the dominant soldier genes while another got the recessive genes and abort the other six.

Well, maybe in fifteen or twenty years, she can start her own football team.

[General Battuta]

What they should have done was manipulate the embryos so that one got all the dominant soldier genes while another got the recessive genes and abort the other six.

You forgot the balanced mix between the two with the absurd name.