California Octuplets

You know, this whole ordeal is just rubbing me the wrong way. People just go crazy excited over "Jon & Kate Plus 8" and the Duggar family. Yet, here this woman comes along with fourteen children all through in-vitro and suddenly everyone is up in arms about "ethics." WHAT?! Why are Jon and Kate and the Duggars so much more special and awesome? Because they're married? Because they're getting paid to exploit their story on tv? What is it?

I understand this woman does not have a job and she does not have the means to raise this family in what some might consider the proper manner. Yeah, she does have some issues upstairs and isn't exactly the brightest crayon the box. However, we live in a country where welfare is considered a way of life. We just elected a Democrat into the Presidency and Democrats love to hand out the welfare, yet people are going to give this woman a rash of s#!t because she has to use the system to support her kids.

Better yet, she NEEDS to use the system to support her fourteen children and the masses are going to cry foul if they think someone is trying to help her. On the Dateline interview this evening, she admited that she has no money, no job, and is going back to school and will support her family with student loans, and then someone actually emailed NBC and basically said, "I hope you're not paying her." Here is a woman who can't support her children with a proper job and you don't want to give her money, but you'll buy Jon and Kate's book at Amazon.com and call it a day after watching the Duggar wife give birth to yet another child.

Why is this woman any different from the Duggar family? The Duggar parents decided they're just going to keep popping them out while they can and because they're getting endorsements, what's to stop them? They can afford their kids that way. Why is this woman any different from the normal Smith family who has decided they want a large family? This woman wanted a large family, but we're going to fault her because her doctor took her money and did the job.

And now, when it's too late to change anything, we're going to tell her that we don't want to help her. Here Gerber and Procter & Gamble won't help her out. Other parents of multiple births, including Jon and Kate, have received a slew of products from these companies and many others, including a tummy tuck and hair plugs (because that's necessary to raise to properly raise a child), but the one woman who probably needs more help than any of them is getting zip.

On top of that, this woman's mother (the grandmother) is, in my opinion, the worst of them all. She's been sure to let the public know that she strongly disagrees with her daughter's decisions. Plus, she has warned her daughter that when she gets home from the hospital, "I'm going to be gone." Oh well, doesn't that make you the flippin' hero of the hour? You sure set your daughter straight. Oh, and don't worry about the fourteen kids. I'm sure they can fend for themselves.

I think in all of this people have lost sight of the most important things: the fourteen children. This woman and her doctor made a huge mistake, but it's a mistake that can't be undone. When you punish the mother in this case, you punish the children. Don't give this woman freebies and book deals and handouts to help her; give them to her to help her children because they're going to need it.

Get off your high horses, people. Yeah, this woman got herself into one heck of a tight spot, but for pete's sake, don't let her drown and take her children down with her. Her kids deserve a chance and she can't afford to give them one. We'll bailout the Wall Street dudes, but not these kids? What a sad country we are if we'll turn our backs on fourteen innocent children, who we know will need help, because we don't like the decision their mother has made.