Octo-Mom

I am tired of the publicity swirling around Nadya Suleman - in my opinion she is an unfit mother and should have all of her 14 children placed in Child Protective Services. I am not a psychiatrist, I only have a cursory knowledge of Psych 101 and a dabbling of Dr. Philisms, but I can tell that this woman has some major issues.

I am not for limiting reproduction; that can get dicey (it calls to mind Communist China and their limit to one child per couple.....), but there has to be guidelines for IVF to guard against a single mother, still in college ($50,000 in debt with student loans), living with her parents in a 3 bedroom home, on Welfare (!!!), with six other children at home (two of which are disabled), from being impregnated with eight children. That is insane. If she were an applicant to adopt or foster these children there is absolutely no way she would be accepted. I saw on Dr. Phil yesterday that even as a daycare, the State of California only allows six infants in the home. She's bringing home eight!

I am a little biased against a Welfare state, however. My father, after retiring from an illustrious career in the US Navy, took a job for the State of the New Mexico investigating Welfare fraud, waste and abuse. Some of the stories he would come home with would just make your head spin. Teenagers dropping out of school and becoming baby-makers (essentially) and living off of the State; food stamp recipients asking to buy other people's groceries with their EBT card in exchange for cash so they can go buy cigarettes, alcohol, drugs.....

But, I am off topic. Nadya Suleman is out of touch with reality. She is majoring in Psychology, and yet she cannot see the mess that is staring back at her in the mirror. I really hope that the State of California steps in at some point; those poor infants are innocent and did not choose their fate. I feel bad for them; and I pity their mother.