<p>^I Imagine its commission based, or negotiated as such. I also think the PR person can’t say too much or else she’s given away too much free product (her goal is to get companies to pay for that information). And I agree with NSM, I imagine this is a PR company’s dream assignment.</p>
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It is very sad, isn’t it? I can say with complete honesty that if the opportunity presented itself, I’d take one of those children and love it like my own. It selfishly breaks my heart to think of all the loving homes that could give them wonderful lives being ignored while the kids probably grow up in chaos.</p>
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<p>My mother had a friend who had 12 children. The eldest became a nun. :D</p>
<p>I feel very sorry for the children of this woman. It is obvious to me that the lady is mentally ill. No one can give 14 children, all under the age of 8, the time and attention that they require and deserve, and any mentally healthy person would accept this fact. These poor kids will end up raising themselves, because no one else will be able to do it.</p>
<p>I think most of America feels the same way and that is why offers aren’t coming in. It was interesting to hear the publicist say she was entertaining offers from overseas. I wonder if that is because American companies aren’t coming near her at all. I bet the publicist has already made the phone calls and got a polite thanks but no thanks.</p>
<p>The publicist said she wanted to make it clear that the rumors of her asking for 3 or 4 million were untrue…I never ever heard the number 3 or 4, but I heard 2. So is 3,4 untrue, but 2 true</p>
<p>I do would adopt one of them and probably the one with the most medical issues, so they had a chance of getting more quality time and attention</p>
<p>I think that since Sam’s club gave Kate free diapers for two years she should pay it forward.
She is doing well financially, created this company around her children -of which she insisted she have all of, even though the dr’s didn’t want to implant 6.</p>
<p>She also could pay forward an addition on their house - the one built by her fathers church that wasn’t good enough for her.</p>
<p>I’m no fan of Kate but she didn’t have six embryos implanted. She used fertility drugs and intrauterine insemination.</p>
<p>Yeah - you could be right - but back in 2004 when they were born it was quite controversial. Initially, she refused to say - is she making that claim now?</p>
<p>A well known fertility dr in the area back then said large multiples were quite controlable. If the woman hyper-ovulated they would recommend abandoning the procedure for a month. She initially conceived 7 babies. </p>
<p>She did get lots and lots of volunteer and tax payer help. when the babies were a year old she went to Harrisburg and demanded in a hearing that the state not cut off her LPN they were supplying her through Medicaid. They wanted to give her a home health aid instead and she pitched a fit, even though she herself is a Registered Nurse. It was all very distasteful. </p>
<p>Anyway - these kids will be getting lots of help from the taxpayers of California.</p>
<p>^^Well, we are broke and don’t really want to support her octuplets (though we will).</p>
<p>[California</a> bond rating drops lower than any other state’s - Los Angeles Times](<a href=“http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-budget4-2009feb04,0,2705277.story]California”>Supervisors talk tough to the state)</p>
<p>Well, maybe your state tax refund that I hear will be IOUS will now have to go directly to her before you see it. Then again my fed will also go to her.</p>
<p>I’m coming over after reading the unusual names thread. Do these eight babies have names?? Let’s name them! Dasher, Dancer…</p>
<p>ROFL…at the rate she is going she should find out the names from 101 Dalmation…I can only remember dipstick, perty and pongo.</p>
<p>Who wants to bet right now, it will probably be all the same letter or A-H, but than if the others are alphabetical I guess she would have to start with G-N
I heard she left the hospital in the dark of the night…what’s the biggie, nobody knows what she looks like, so the media wouldn’t flood around her.</p>
<p>I find it interesting the ex has spoken yet…is he shopping around his story also?</p>
<p>(continuing from post 311) Comet, cupid, Pixie, Dixie and Alice and Trixie.</p>
<p>I think the general American public might be a bit more respectful of this woman’s choices. And it is possible to give the children a good childhood, even though it will be difficult; my grandfather was raised in a similarly large household and he has always been perfectly happy and well adjusted, so it is possible.</p>
<p>Did your grandfather have a mother AND father in the home? I’m sure your grandfather’s siblings were of different ages with the older children helping out with the younger children. Big families can be a blessing. I’m one of five kids but back when I was a kid, this was a typical family. The older kids would help in the care of the younger kids. </p>
<p>In this woman’s case, she all ready had 6 young children. She didn’t have the means to support her existing six kids herself. To artificially impregnate herself (with the help of an unethical doctor) with another set of extreme multiples was a choice she made based on her wants and psychological need. She made this decision with little regard to the children involved. This was not a natural progression of bearing one child after another. It was an artificial progression of stacking sets of kids to fulfill her bizarre need.</p>
<p>I dated a guy that was one of 13 children…they were pretty close knit, spread apart over a span of years and most have turned out to be successful. One was a bad seed…the kind that you read about in the paper and cringe</p>
<p>AP is reporting…</p>
<p>"WHITTIER, Calif. -In her first interview since giving birth to octuplets, Nadya Suleman tells NBC she wanted a huge family to make up for the isolation she says she always felt as an only child.</p>
<p>In a brief excerpt of the interview released Thursday, the 33-year-old single mother tells “Today” show anchor Ann Curry she had a dysfunctional childhood and sought to erase that with the closeness children could bring. NBC says the full interview will air Monday."</p>
<p>FoxNews is reporting…</p>
<p>State documents disclosed to The Associated Press show that Nadya Suleman, the mother of the recently-delivered octuplets, received more than $165,000 in disability payments for an on-the-job back injury.</p>
<p>She worked at a state mental hospital from 1997 until December when she resigned. The payments were made between 2002 and 2008, during which time Suleman gave birth to most of her six other children.</p>
<p>The documents, provided to the AP on Thursday following a public records request to the Department of Mental Health, also show that Suleman had three miscarriages before she first became a mother.</p>
<p>[FOXNews.com</a> - Records: Octuplets’ Mom Received $165G in Disability Payments - Pregnancy](<a href=“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,488627,00.html]FOXNews.com”>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,488627,00.html)</p>
<p>lje62, are you by chance talking about a big family that is in the news/papers right now? Just a hunch by your screen name and local knowledge …</p>
<p>The women obviously needs mental/psychological help. Many people are only children, but having 14 kids in less than 7 years is foolish. Her reasons were selfish. I really feel bad for the children.</p>