<p>Having kids with special needs or chronic health conditions is also a major stressor for marriage (or life in general). There are many stats on that as well. With multiples, you really hope they are all healthy or you have massive med bills.</p>
<p>People who want to display their lives on reality TV are narcissists. They naturally think that everyone else is interested in the miniscule data of their lives (and I guess we are).</p>
<p>Narcissists make lousy spouses. </p>
<p>Maybe it is not the TV show, maybe it is who decides they want to do these TV shows.</p>
<p>“Real Life” is a real hoot.</p>
<p>HImom is probably correct, the reason for the higher divorce rate is because the parents might be forced to address more medical issues that the avg couple never deals with.</p>
<p>Finances…</p>
<p>Being the daughter of parents who are both twins I can tell you that their parents were together until one passed away. The multiples I know also have parents who are still together. Then again, they all lived very quiet lives.</p>
<p>Husband is a twin. Big sister is 18 months older. So MIL had three under two. Her MIL would come in and criticize her housekeeping. It’s a wonder my MIL didn’t strangle her MIL.</p>
<p>I’m not a parent (Sorry if this counts as invading your forum or whatever) but I LOVE jon and kate plus eight… and watching it on monday night made me so sad.</p>
<p>I also just remembered that I babysat for triplets before (and their was another younger sibling)… their parents were divorced.</p>
<p>Pima, different state have different laws about “child performers” but from what I have been able to find out, reality programming is the loophole, since the kids aren’t “hired” for roles, per se.Hopefully, laws will be enacted to solve this, but it won’t be in time to ensure that the Gosselin kids are protected.
Family disputes,arguments, divorce, all hard enough to deal with in private, but to have these things play out in front of an audience is horrible. Listening to bored, catty women hurling insults at each other is one thing, but hearing young Mady’s quiet and dispirited response to her mom’s, " Haven’t we been having fun?" (teaser for next week’s show) is heartbreaking. Let’s just hope they don’t decide to do a season with the nasty couple in therapy…</p>
<p>Welcome, livesforsummer. You may have the best screen name yet!</p>
<p>Before the McCaugheys, Gosselins and Octomom, there were the Frustacis.
Their septuplets were born in 1985 in Orange, California, Patti Frustaci was the first woman in the United States to give birth to septuplets. </p>
<p>Only three of infants would survive. And even after all that heartbreak, what began as the hope for a large family quickly became an ordeal of illness, money and media attention. One of the septuplets was stillborn. The other six infants ranged in weight from 1 pound, 1 ounce to 1 pound, 13 ounces. Three more of the infants, died from hyaline membrane disease.</p>
<p>At the age of 2, the surviving children were found to have cerebral palsy. And a year later, there was more bad news, the children also were diagnosed as mentally ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>Sam and Patti Frustaci divorced a few years later.</p>
<p>Is she with Maddy or Cara? I hope they won’t pit the girls. Jon took Cara to Utah, now she is taking Maddy.
That might make the SNL skit way too real(Jon +4 Kate +4)</p>
<p>Or is she doing it because out of the episodes I remember he has always had 1 on 1 time with each of the girls. I believe in the California he hiked with Maddy up the mtn while Kate stayed down.</p>
<p>While waiting in CVS last night for a prescription, I read the article in US magazine. While they were in the restaurant being interviewed, Kate received a phone call that one of her children was being brough to the emergency room with a broken finger. She ordered Jon to go while she stayed and finished her dinner. Another thing the article mentioned is how she has many demands while on the road. She is a true Momzilla!</p>
<p>But did you purchase the copy of US that you were reading?</p>
<p>No, I just borrowed it while I was waiting.</p>
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<p>Were she and Jon being interviewed simultaneously at the restaurant? If so, that could signal a truce. </p>
<p>I’ll keep my comments about the ER to myself.</p>
<p>US Magazine - tabloid journalism.</p>
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<p>We read the article in line at Walmart. Does anyone actually buy those magazines?</p>
<p>I remember the Frustacis…I had a baby that same year in the same town and it was sooo sad to read about those kids and empathise</p>
<p>Headline on today’s NY Post: “Save the Eight from Jon & Kate”</p>