Desperately seeking diapers: Octuplets mom launches website
Filed under: Kids and Money, Charity
Nadya Suleman, the 33-year-old single mother of six who recently gave birth to eight more children through in-vitro treatments, has launched a Web site asking for donations to help support her growing family.
The site, which accepts payments by Visa, Mastercard, AmEx, Discover and PayPal, features photos of her eight newborns, as well as their names, gender and birth order. It also provides an address for cash donations and other goods. A spokesperson for the family has declined to comment on the proceeds.
Suleman, who is facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in child care costs, currently lives with her divorced parents in California. She has already spent $50,000 in grad-school loans, while disability payments awarded after an on-the-job injury have run out. She receives food stamps and disability payments for three of her 14 children.
According to her new website, the octuplets are "all healthy and growing stronger by the day." It describes Suleman as a "proud mother of 14."
The issue has put heat on fertility clinics. Nearly a third of in-vitro treatments result in multiple births, raising the risk of low birth weights, long-term disabilities and costly medical bills.
Guidelines adopted last year by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine encourage fertility doctors to transfer only one embryo in women under 35, and no more than five in older women.
Deborah Barrow is Editor-in-Chief of wowOwow.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-12-2009 @ 2:41PM
wxchick said...
I hope no one contributes. I know that sounds cold-hearted, but really ... who did she think would support all those kids??
Pathetic.
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2-12-2009 @ 3:11PM
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2-12-2009 @ 8:12PM
Kay said...
The name of the father is on the birth certificates. By law, he is required to support his children no matter how they were conceived. I think the State of California needs to take him to court and force him to support his family.
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2-12-2009 @ 9:14PM
Grace said...
To Kay: Why? It's not his fault that Suleman was so freaking stupid. He shouldn't have to pay for her problems when she decided to spend her own money to bring 6 more children into the world when she can't even afford the 6 she already had.
I understand him being the father, but this woman's sheer stupidity isn't his fault. wxchick said it best: pathetic.
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2-13-2009 @ 11:50AM
layne said...
Please, please people - do not donate to this whack job!! the victims in this are the babies. they should be taken from her and put up for adoption where they would be given a fair shot at a decent life. they will not get that with her. it's sad, but true!!
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