Could you give a brief summary of the significant points?

Here is the link to the entire 2-part interview with her and her mother.

Dr. Phil (it seems to me) is just encouraging people and companies to donate money and products to help the children.

http://www.drphil.com/shows/show/1231

I feel for her children, and for her parents. I saw the interviews and... just can't bring myself to donate anything unless someone far more responsible will be administering / managing the donations.

As a California taxpayer, who hasn't spent $165,000 from a disability on embryo relocation (from storage to back to her) and $50,000 in student loans for daily living expenses, I'm not loving the idea of supporting her / her children or paying for their birthing or hospital bills.


Considering that the first six of the 14 children have been raised, so far, together, and unless CPS can find "cause" for removing the children from the home, I wouldn't want to see them separated.

The children, despite everything their mother has done / may do are innocent. It seems like it would be cruel to separate them from one another (how many foster families take in six siblings ?) or from their grandmother.

I think there are many people who don't think she can be entrusted to manage money very well. After a work-related injury, she reportedly received a $165,000 sum for her "disability." Where did those funds go? Embryo storage and implantation. She also received $50,000 in student loans - to help with her education-related costs, which also, according to her, was spent on daily living expenses. Uhmm, that's what the disability monies should have been applied toward.

Make donations, and what will happen to those monies or goods? E-bay? Garage sales? Who knows? If she's managing the money, I'm sure she'll have her rationalizations for how the money was spent, and maybe not as donors intend.

Evidently, and based on her past decisions: It's become clear she chose not to use the funds she had to assist with the needs of her 6 children, receiving food stamps and whatever additional state/gov't assistance.

Just a thought - it seems impossible to me that any one or two people can adequately care for 14 children under the age of 5 or older for that matter - much less support them - some of us find it hard to support ourselves - let alone ourselves and 14 children -if there would be a way to keep all 14 together in perhaps a church undertaking then I would think they could stay together - but I think at this point the benefits to the children would be greater if they were adopted or fostered by people who could devote the time and love necessary - just because this woman gave birth it does not make her a fit mother - this woman - to quote my late mother - is a bubble off plumb - and not at all a glowing example of motherhood -

And from my old hippie days and my fierce support of zero population control, I find the whole thing very disturbing.

Whether they can afford it or not, our planet ultimately can't afford overpopulation.

I think the woman has a mental problem.

:o K, off my soapbox with that one.

ROFL @ myself. I didn't mean zero population, I meant zero population growth, heh.

Doody, I kept reading and rereading your first sentence....wondering if my cog fog was acting up or if you really meant that!! I felt better when I read your last sentence!! :o

I'm still wondering how you can be disabled with a back injury yet still be able to carry 8 babies.....and be able to give live TV interviews two months later!

Do you think she will have any more children? I mean, SHE'S ONLY 33.

Fertile Myrtle....that's what I call her!!!!

Melody

P.S. In my local newspaper there was an article about a woman with two uteruses (what is the plural of uterus??lol)

She gave birth to twins, (one from each uterus).

I'm just trying to picture how these babies were conceived.....oh my god!!

lol

Melody