Another talking point from the story of the mother of octuplets. Here's an article from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/ap_on_re_us/octuplets
"Octuplets mom says she longed to escape loneliness"
WHITTIER, Calif. – In her first interview since giving birth to octuplets, Nadya Suleman tells NBC she wanted a huge family to make up for the isolation she says she always felt as an only child.
In a brief excerpt of the interview released Thursday, the 33-year-old single mother tells "Today" show anchor Ann Curry she had a dysfunctional childhood and sought to erase that with the closeness children could bring. NBC says the full interview will air Monday.
Suleman, who now has 14 children, says all were conceived through in vitro fertilization with sperm donated by a friend.
The octuplets, born last week, remain hospitalized. The others range in age from 2 to 7.
Suleman says it took seven years of trying before she became pregnant with her first child.
3 comments:
How much children should she has to mitigate her loneliness?
poor woman! six children is not enough entertainment for her.
p.s: how do you identify a liar?
And is it a waste of time to have a neutral post like this? Where do you stand?
People who says they are agnostic are either liars or too dumb to think.
Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. I am not sure who you are or that I fully understand your comments, but in terms of what I think ... My initial thought was one of sadness as well when I heard that lonliness was one of, if not her main motivation for having these children - not in the sense that I feel children do not help meet this desire, but in the sense that evidently the people in her life did not provide the warmth that she longed for, or in her mind were not sufficient. Obviously she was/is searching for an answer to her lonliness, but is that a reason to have children? Are the children in this case not created to meet one's needs rather than creating children with the intention of caring for them? Obviously this is a complex issue, but certainly one worthy of discussion. I personally believe that the need for companionship is meant to be met in a marriage relationship and that children should be born within this context to experience the love and care that God intends for them. Those were some of my initial thoughts. My intention for posting it in a neutral fashion was to provide an open springboard for discussion without offering leading thoughts.
Blessings,
Kevin
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