Thursday, February 26, 2009

my thoughts on the octuplet mom

just sick of hearing everybody bash on her....
let's see she's raising her kids on disability payments and foodstamps and thats bad because why? from what i understand qualifying for disability precludes holding down a paying job, right? so its not like she can just go out and get a job. and in this economy? whos gonna hire somebody with fourteen kids? think of the sick days just to take kids to the dr.
also she decided to have eight more when she already had 6. ands thats bad because why? if she had decided to foster or adopt we'd be singing her praises and talking about what a great sacrifice she has made...and the gov'nt would be be giving her even more benefits. just because these are her biological kids does not make it any less of a sacrifice. she said in an article i read that shes basically putting her life on hold to raise these kids. not even dating or working just being there for the kids. is that something to bash her for?
its just another example of how little our society values motherhood. this is important work that shes doing.

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