Questions I have are


1. Single Mother with children with six children already sounds like a mental health issue.
2.Poverty and living in three room house with her parents?

3. Will cost of birth and support fall on State of California
4. I would question parental ethics
5. Doctors and invetro clinic that allowed this are the negligent, criminal,greedy, insane?
6. Is pro life movement supporting woman as breeders?


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Raising 14 Kids Costs More Than $2 Million
Dr. Charles Sophy, the medical director of Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, cautioned that giving birth to octuplets would put eight times as much stress on a single mother and pose a daunting task in terms of rearing.

"It costs money to raise children. To raise these kids is probably going to cost about $2.5 million, just to give them basics," he said. "That is not baseball lessons or piano lessons. That is food, clothing or getting to school every day -- that is a lot of money."

The Department of Children and Family Services would worry that, in a house of 14, there would be a lack of attention or that the children would be at higher risk of abuse or neglect.


http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6767745&page=1


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The octuplets born to a California single mom on Monday) already have six siblings and two grandparents waiting for them at home.
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The mother of the octuplets born this week is a single woman who lives with her bankrupt parents - and her six other kids!

The name of the 33-year-old California woman has not been released, but her mother, Angela Suleman, revealed her daughter underwent in vitro fertilization to get pregnant.

She never expected so many of the implanted embryos would develop into fetuses, but rejected the idea of aborting some of them.

"What do you suggest she should have done?" Suleman told the Los Angeles Times. "She refused to have them killed. That is a very painful thing."

The confirmation that the woman used IVF to conceive the eight-pack is sure to raise an ethical furor.

The medical establishment has guidelines that discourage doctors from implanting too many embryos because multiple births are risky for mother and children.

The octuplets were born Monday, nine weeks premature. They weighed between 1 pound, 8 ounces and 3 pounds, 4 ounces and will be in the hospital for weeks.

The Web site momlogic.com quoted a neighbor as saying a sperm donor was used to conceive the octuplets and the six previous children, who range in age from 2 to 7.

Suleman said raising 14 children will be "difficult" - perhaps an understatement considering the family's reported financial troubles.

They filed bankruptcy and abandoned a home less than two years ago. The babies' grandfather is hoping to raise some cash by heading to his native Iraq as a contractor.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2...ake_17_single_m

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