Multiple babies

The news of a California woman giving birth to eight babies is the hot topic of today. When I saw the story on the news, I was interested in knowing more about it. The news said that the woman possibly had the help of fertility drugs and IVF to have multiple babies. The team of doctors who delivered the babies were happy with their success that all eight babies were safe but I was more curious about the mother whose identity was being hidden to protect the babies.

The next day I was watching the news and they said that the woman is in her 30s, she is a single mother and had six other children under the age of eight! Ok now my ears really perked up. A number of questions went through my head like; How did she get a doctor to implant so many embryos in her? Who is the father? How is she going to afford all the diapers, baby formula, clothes.....and the list goes on! Well let's tackle these questions one at a time. In my opinion it is unethical and immoral to implant multiple embryos at one time and isn't there a law that no more than three embryos be implanted at a time? Now if she is single than she must have gone to a sperm bank to get the required stuff but was there really a need to do that when she already had six kids? Believe me some people go through hell to try and conceive one child. All the emotional toll it takes on the individual and the couple is indescribable and then you hear about something like this, and you are like what the hell? Becoming a parent is an honour and a privilege and also a tremendous blessing. Bringing even one child into this world and giving him or her the best possible life is a big responsibility but for some people popping kids out has become a recreation, a business or simply a fashion. Now coming to the question about being able to afford these kids. In this economy when you hear about massive layoffs each and everyday, people cutting back on their expenses, learning to live within their means and the big corporations going belly up, how is this woman going to pay to raise 14 kids! Does she even have a job? If she does, then who will take care of the kids while she is at work? Is she even close to making the kind of money to support 14 kids? I don't know the answer to these questions, but I do know that I will somehow end up paying for her kids. My husband and I are lucky to have jobs and work very hard to budget our lives in these trying times and I don't want to pay for people who are irresponsible or make poor decisions in their lives. I know that sooner or later this woman will apply for welfare or some kind of government aid to raise her kids and as taxpayers we will be paying the tab.

I wish this woman all the best because she was given the honour to become a mother for the umpteenth time but the future of these babies concerns me deeply.