14 Kids And Counting...

So here you are, a single woman with six children (some of them special-needs children), and you have no employment, no husband, and you live with your parents.

What would most people do given this situation?

Well, it's a safe bet that most would not think, "I think I'll have in vitro fertilization to have even MORE children..."

But that's exactly what Nadya Suleman, the new mother of octuplets, decided to do. One can only guess what went on in her mind when she made that decision because it is completely counter to what just about everyone else would do.

There's been talk that she now is looking for donations to help her with her brood, similar to other families in the past who had famous multiple-births. It makes you wonder if that was the plan all along. Another question is how much public assistance becomes available to an individual in her situation, especially since she was recently spotted purchasing expensive cosmetics, she has a new Public Relations person... "Thing's that make ya go, 'Hmmm....' But all of the blame doesn't lay there.

There was the doctor who performed the procedure. A number of pundits have said that he is not without blame in all of this. Some experts have said that he should have investigated Ms. Suleman's economic viability before agreeing to perform the procedure.

Looks like there's some moral bankruptcy going on in both camps. And the children will bear the brunt of a lot of this for years to come. It's somewhat likely that public assistance will play a part in raising the kids. The public, meaning you and me.

You know, there's a saying that "It takes a village to raise a child." In most cases that might be ok. But the tune changes when the parent is intentionally irresponsible to force the issue on the village, and by having a total of 14 children that's taking it to the extreme. But the kids are here now and prospects for their economic well-being look to be in severe jeopardy without intervention from outside the family. It's not fair to put the children in economic peril because of the actions of their mother and their doctor. So what are the villagers to do?

There's always adoption... What do you think?