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Re: Octomom
What pisses me off is that she went to great lengths to have these children. It would be one thing if she had a partner and was uber fertile. . . It's wrong that she underwent multiple (invasive) fertility treatments to create these children AND did not think through the logistics of raising her family. IMO, she approached having these kids in the way some people approach getting s dog or cat. Once the cute puppy/kitten/baby phase is over, they are left with living beings to raise that need love, care and cash.
I worked in foster care for over 7 years and the information in that article does not meet the grounds for removal. Also, removal is very traumatic to the children. In this particular situation there is no way they would find a home that could take all of those children so they would be split up which adds another level of trauma. The first step should be to put support services in place to try to maintain the children in the home.
Thats incredibly sad.
I watched her on Oprah when I was in the hospital and she's pretty frazzled. It just kills me that she regrets her children. Poor babies
they didn't ask to be born.
Generally, I am not one to promote interference with families, but this is an extreme situation. These children need to be protected or insulated from their mother's inability to see beyond herself and her selfish needs and wants.
I agree. There needs to be some type of child advocate involved. It sounds like she is on a down ward spiral. She's not all there to begin with. I'm honestly afraid for her children. The last thing we want to see on the news anytime soon is a murder/suicide of Octomom and her 14 children.
In the eyes of child services this isn't close to an extreme situation. An extreme situation is a child not having anything at all to eat for several days, a child beaten so badly they are hospitalized, a child forced to live in a cage, a child pimped out by their parent for drugs, a child who is left home alone for days with the adult not coming home at all, a house that looks like an episode of Hoarders.
I agree this woman needs help. I agree that she made less than responsible choices in her life that directly impacted her children. I agree that talking to a gossip magazine about her issues shows poor judgment. However, the reality is that right now she needs to help herself. She's a good candidate for abuse prevention and family preservation services but most likely she will need to seek these out for herself.
67/200
I had that thought as well but to degrade your children like that in the process...horrible.