I suspect she’ll make a lot of money from interviews, book deals and I’m guessing a future reality show. Rumor has it she was already paid $300,000 for one morning program show. The more irresponsible the story maker the more money they pay them which is just disgusting.
That said, I hope the hospital (who has asked for help from CA in paying her costs) goes after the money for her bills as does the insurance company and later Soc Sec in the some $150,000 in disability payments she received for a “bad back” while popping out 14 kids. Yes, she’d been on disability since 2001.
Once all her bills are paid and the insurance fraud lawsuit settled and time served for insurance fraud is completed, she can keep the leftover money and try to raise the kids. I don’t think the state has any right to take her children away if she is providing for them. And if she’s smart she’ll be able to.
But while I don’t believe we have a right to take people’s kids away because we disagree with their “choices,” we certainly have a right to make a moral judgement on them. And I consider this a very, very immoral, selfish woman. She’s a criminal – stealing from the state for false disability (also student loans used for IVF.) I had a bad back for six weeks a few months ago. It was agony. I could barely drive and carrying one baby much less eight babies at once would not have considered, I was in too much pain. If you can pop out 14 kids you can work. (Be aware there may be medical realities I am unaware of and I am not a doctor so that statement may be very false.) But I don’t think there’s a job out there that the average woman does that would be 1/10th the work of caring for 14 babies under the age of 8. She’s a bad mother – one person can’t give enough attention to 14 small children, they just can’t. Find me a day care center that has a 14 to one ratio with well over half the kids being babies. And she’s bad because with 3 special needs kids already she created a situation where some huge percentage of the newbies are going to have developmental problems. You just can’t have a litter that large and babies that small without future problems.
My understanding is that when she was released from the hospital she sat down to do an interview BEFORE going to see her other 6 kids. I think that says it all.
The sad thing is I refuse to watch any of the interviews or shows about her but I still know all this. Sickening how such a freak show gains so much importance while the average person can’t tell you why the economy imploded and how many of the “solutions” will make it worse. One good thing about a truly harsh correction is maybe we’ll stop rewading people like this who make absolutely stupid decisions that are “human interest.” Because you just know something is thinking “how can I carry 9 babies at once. They’re so cute!”
