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Thursday, February 12, 2009

 

Taxpayers Could Pay for the 14 Children of Woman With 8 Babies

SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER
Associated Press
Thu Feb 12, 12:33 am ET
This image made from a 2006 video provided by KTLA shows Nadya Suleman speaking 
AP – This image made from a 2006
video provided by KTLA shows
Nadya Suleman speaking at a fertility clinic

LOS ANGELES – A big share of the financial burden of raising Nadya Suleman's 14 children could fall on the shoulders of California's taxpayers, compounding the public furor in a state already billions of dollars in the red.

Even before the 33-year-old single, unemployed mother gave birth to octuplets last month, she had been caring for her six other children with the help of $490 a month in food stamps, plus Social Security disability payments for three of the youngsters. The public aid will almost certainly be increased with the new additions to her family.

Also, the hospital where the octuplets are expected to spend seven to 12 weeks has requested reimbursement from Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program, for care of the premature babies, according to the Los Angeles Times. The cost has not been disclosed.

Word of the public assistance has stoked the furor over Suleman's decision to have so many children by having embryos implanted in her womb.

"It appears that, in the case of the Suleman family, raising 14 children takes not simply a village but the combined resources of the county, state and federal governments," Los Angeles Times columnist Tim Rutten wrote in Wednesday's paper. He called Suleman's story "grotesque."

On the Internet, bloggers rained insults on Suleman, calling her an "idiot," criticizing her decision to have more children when she couldn't afford the ones she had and suggesting she be sterilized.

"It's my opinion that a woman's right to reproduce should be limited to a number which the parents can pay for," Charles Murray wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles Daily News. "Why should my wife and I, as taxpayers, pay child support for 14 Suleman kids?"

She was also berated on talk radio, where listeners accused her of manipulating the system and being an irresponsible mother.

"From the outside you can tell that this woman was playing the system," host Bryan Suits said on the "Kennedy and Suits" show on KFI-AM. "You're damn right the state should step in and seize the kids and adopt them out."

Suleman's spokesman, Mike Furtney, urged understanding.

"I would just ask people to consider her situation and she has been under a tremendous amount of pressure that no one could be prepared for," Furtney said.

Furtney said he, Suleman and her family had received death threats and had been getting messages that were "disgusting things that would never be proper to put in any story."

In her only media interviews, Suleman told NBC's "Today" she doesn't consider the public assistance she receives to be welfare and doesn't intend to remain on it for long.

Also, a Nadya Suleman Family Web Site has been set up to collect donations for the children. It features pictures of the mother and each octuplet and has instructions for making donations by check or credit card.

Suleman, whose six older children range in age from 2 to 7, said three of them receive disability payments. She told NBC one is autistic, another has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, known as ADHD, and a third experienced a mild speech delay with "tiny characteristics of autism." She refused to say how much they get in payments.

In California, a low-income family can receive Social Security payments of up to $793 a month for each disabled child. Three children would amount to $2,379.

The Suleman octuplets' medical costs have not been disclosed, but in 2006, the average cost for a premature baby's hospital stay in California was $164,273, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Eight times that equals $1.3 million.


Comments:
Give a rest! She likes kids, That's California's problem. The
media just goes on and on about this. Help if u want too,but
let move on.
Ironic the drama's being played out in California where the depend-on-government-for-everything movement began so many years ago.

Suleman said in her tv interview
“All I wanted was children.
"I wanted to be a mom.
"That's all I ever wanted in my life. I love my children,” she told Curry.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29038814/

A bit too many I-wants, IMHO.

Don't think we've heard the end of this one yet and it may lead somewhere in the future to two children per family policy like China's. After all when the government's picking up the tab they can call the shots.
Don't Bread Em If U Can't Feed Em. At first she said that she got no assistance
now she say's that she get's foodstamps. Now which one is it. I myself could really care less but this here is a bunch of mess. Because even after her Master's Degree she still can't afford 14 kids, she already couldn't afford 7. I blame her parent's. If they would have let her live under the bridge with the 1st set. Something might have kicked in. I think that there is just more to the story. I also think that the Doctor himself may be the donor. This piss is so funny I forget to laugh. LOL
Charmed, I would agree, but she didn't have the children naturally. She purposely gave birth to 14 children by IVF.   If you saw the interview with her, she is obviously not living in the real world. I would agree with you had she given birth to 14 children and had lots of money to support them, but she planned it without being responsible. She wasn't even supporting the 6 she previously had by IVF and got pregnant again. The doctor who assisted her should lose his license.
Once the gov't starts to tell one citizen what to do then you can tell each and every citizen what to do.
We are already going down that route and fast.
Then you can kiss freedom goodbye.
I think she really has mental issues. First she claims disability for a so called back injury. But then has 14 kids through IVF. Then she lies about her name(s). Then she uses an expensive Beverly hills place. She obviously also had plastic surgery on her nose and lips. That doesn't sound like a repsonsible mom. Her mother takes care of the children and she's feed up. 3 of her children have issues and she still decided to have more. Totally insane!!!! Good thing I don't live in California!
I am proud of Nadya Suleman for what she did. I was her interview and I support her decision 100%. She knew what she wanted and she worked her ass off to make it happen. She worked and saved her money, not ours, to pay for the procedures. She is going to school and not sitting at home waiting for a check. She is my Shero(female hero). I feel inspired to try IVF myself. Why? Because it is my choice, my body, and my money.

Like her I love kids. Why not adopt? I don't want the government, children's services, in my house telling me what to do. For instance you can't smoke in your home or your car, going to my neighbors and relatives asking about me. Not that I have anything to hide, but if I want someone to know I am adopting a kid or fostering a kid it would be my decision to let them know not child services through their questions.

Oh well that's another story. WAY TO GO NADYA SULEMAN!!!!
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