Should Octomom Be Forced To Put Her Babies Up For Adoption?
The Fourth of July is a good time to throw back a couple of cold ones, put a few burgers and dogs on the BBQ, and relax with your family. But on this Fourth of July, the last thing Nadya Suleman—nicknamed Octomom—wants to do is be with her family, which consists of 14 kids.
It’s a sad story really. Just a few years back, Octomom was a D-list celebrity thanks to her brood. She had a reality TV show that followed her journey as she attempted to raise eight newborns in addition to the six kids she already had. And she was in the tabloids every week with a new photo of her tending to her flock. But now, in 2011, she’s in the rags for a much different reason: She’s grown to hate her children and the overwhelming burden they’ve brought into her life.
“I hate the babies,” she told In Touch Weekly recently. “My older six are animals. [They are] getting more and more out of control, because I have no time to properly discipline them. The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the floor. Anything to get peace and quiet.”
And if you think that sounds bad, she even took it one step further when talking about her octuplets, saying that she “wishes she never had them” and admitting to contemplating suicide in recent months. It all begs the simple question: Should the Octomom’s babies be put up for adoption?
The truth is that she may not have a choice. Her only source of income right now is the welfare she collects from the state of California. Her house is in danger of being foreclosed. She has no money to pay for school or food for all 14 of her kids. And in some of the pictures accompanying the In Touch piece, her house appears to be super rundown, with one photo even showing one of her children eating drywall. In other words, it’s not a pretty sight—and we wouldn’t be surprised to see Child Services get involved at some point in the near future.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t hard to see that Octomom was headed down this road. She managed to turn her 15 minutes of fame into a quick windfall that lasted her and her kids awhile, but with no real career and very little help with the children, she’s had to struggle to make ends meet. She also doesn’t seem interested in turning down all of the extra publicity that comes along with being Octomom just yet. Recently, she filmed an episode of a new HDNet celebrity dating show called Celebridate that features three regular men trying to find true love with her—as if a single woman with 14 kids is the most desirable girl in the world.
But the bottom line here—and the biggest problem that we have with Octomom—isn’t that she’s trying to use her kids to keep her name out there. It’s that she clearly doesn’t love her children and has now gone as far as to say that she hates them. In that case, we say she needs to find good homes for these kids before it’s too late.
We also think that all other prospective mothers—and fathers, for that matter—need to take a good hard look at someone like Octomom before they bring multiple offspring into this world and think that they’re going to just breeze through life without any problems. Have a plan, people. And plan for that plan to fail so that you’ve got a Plan B in place when everything falls apart.
Kids can be the most precious things in the world. But they can also be daunting and cause a lot of stress on parents who aren’t ready for them. And right now, it sounds like no one knows that better than Octomom. Silly as her story may be, it just got real. And all we can do is hope that it somehow has a happy ending.
Look at that poor baby that has fallen between the two girls and is clearly in distress and practically being smothered. Then at least half the babies are fully crying and in distress while the older boy seems to be feeding someone but who. There’s no child there. Count them. He’s pointing the bottle down to the ground I guess. While most of these poor babies suffer, the mother is smirking because its just businesses as usual. What is CPA so afraid of. I’ve heard them take children for far less. Her smirk and attitude and love of attention reminds me of Casey Anthony. NS is an American tragedy and will go down as such. No one is talented enough to maintain these facades and its simply a matter of time.
Protective Services needs to step in BEFORE A CHILD IS DEAD!!!!
1 Child can be overwheliming BUT 14 is WAY too much work for a Single Mom.
Someone MUST intervene BEFORE, BEFORE, BEFORE, just sayin.
Praying for the kids!
I saw this coming a mile away. If it is true, it is truly sad. People shouldn’t be allowed to have children unless they are SOME form of financially stable or have help (none welfare) to do so. Not that I have anything against welfare, it’s okay to ask the government to ASSIST you with one child or the occasional twins/triplets until you can get on your feet and take over. But 14 is making a mockery of the State of California and Welfare. My prayers goes out to those innocent kids. PERSONALLY, none working people (excluding recently fired, handicap, SOME students and elderly) should not be allowed to use welfare to support there habits. I’m sure a lot of working people in the state of California pay there taxes and are turned down (refuses to give them their tax money back) when they need assistance because the government considers them to be making to much money.
ALSO, SHE IS SQUEEZING THAT POOR CHILD IN THE MIDDLE.
Simple answer NO! Anyone in her shoes would have those days. Her worst enemy is her own truthfulness. She has been vilified from the start simply because she did what she did as a SINGLE mother and people FEAR she MIGHT need gvt subsidies. Yet we subsidize adoption eagerly and hand out thousands in tax credits to adopters regardless of their financial need! NO, we do not act legally upon thoughts! If we did we’d have to imprison or execute everyone who ever thought about killing a boss, or spouse or mother-in-law! let’s get real.
What a shame it is that the “solution” is seen as taking the children from her and likely separating siblings instead of a solution of offering this struggling mom some HELP!! What an ugly world we live in. Mean and ugly.
Octomom says she has no time to discipline the children,now that the are so young what will happen when they start hanging out with the wrong crowds. Oh Lord please be merciful
Moran riben. People do t feel sorry for her she. Hose this situation for her bet you she was thinking of making money off her kids who in a right mind puts her self in that position? No one she chose to have that many kids she needs to make thebest of her choice by they way bet she is getting more in welfare and food stamps than you make, working hard every day. She needs to go to jail that’s where she belongs.
Riben. I did not mean to type Moran. Meant Moran. Sorry
Riben. I did not mean to type Moran. Meant Mirah sorry