Should women be allowed to have 14 kids without job?

by sammielee24 280 Replies latest jw friends

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  cognizant dissident

  Yes, purps, I think she tipped her hand too early. She should have waited until after the 2million book deal was signed to go public with her plans.
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  watson

  Where this becomes a problem is when you start to think about the youngin's. Even if the woman is an idiot, the kids shouldn't have to suffer, right?
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  cognizant dissident

  Oh well, kids all throughout history have been suffering for their parent's idiocy. Why should hers be any different?
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  John Doe

  Should 14 kids be allowed to have a woman?
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  sammieswife

  ql said he is a JW? well I'll be damned Don't know. Never heard. My statement was to the fact that my opinion probably means little since I don't believe that anyone should have kids if they don't understand that their first obligation is to a child when the elect to have one or keep one ....and since JW's don't believe it's family first and organization second, that would include them. sammieswife

  sorry, I thought you made a reference to her religion being all consuming and that made me think of JWs as most other religions have community support networks in place for large families and highly value education and independence.
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  quietlyleaving

  One thing I will add. Most of the imaginative thinkers who have enriched our lives came from very deprived backgrounds. Wordsworth lost both his parents, he roamed wild and free. Lots of legislation and state intervention can make life very safe and predictable but it has its downside and can stifle life.
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  LouBelle

  If you cannot support a child and give it what it needs emotionally, physcially, materially, spiritually then you shouldn't have children.
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  purplesofa

  It will be interesting to follow what happens when "appropriate action" is taken.

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7869345.stm

  Octuplets mum 'deluged by offers'

  A Californian woman who gave birth to octuplets has been showered with book and TV offers, the woman's newly-hired publicist has said. "She's the most sought-after mom in the world right now," said her publicist. She said the mother, Nadya Suleman, was weighing up the offers, adding that raising eight children is expensive. Ms Suleman has been criticised for having the eight babies through in vitro fertilisation when she already had six children, all under age eight. The eight babies were delivered nine weeks early by Caesarean section in a hospital near Los Angeles on 26 January. 'Compelling story' The publicist, Joann Killeen, said hundreds of offers had been received. Many were for interviews but some have been to host TV shows or be a baby expert. Ms Killeen said they were looking at all the opportunities, but that Ms Suleman was still in hospital recovering from the births and wanted to focus on her children. It was too early to discuss how much money might be involved in some of the offers, Ms Killeen said. "Right now her top priority is to be the best mom she can be to all her children," she said. Ms Suleman, 33, does want to tell her story at some point, however. "She's looking forward to telling the story and setting the record straight," Ms Killeen said. "I think you're going to be very impressed with a compelling story," she told ABC's Good Morning America. She has come under criticism for choosing to have more children through in vitro fertilisation when she already has six. Her other children, aged 2-7, were also conceived through in vitro fertilisation, Ms Suleman's mother has said. "To put this many embryos back in a woman who is so young and had proven fertility is completely irresponsible," reproductive endocrinologist Suleena Kansal Kalra of the University of Pennsylvania told AFP news agency. The American Society of Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) is investigating how Ms Suleman became pregnant with octuplets and may "take appropriate action", the agency said in a statement. The ASRM recommends that women of Ms Suleman's age have no more than two embryos implanted. Doctors say Ms Suleman's eight babies are making good progress. They are the second set of octuplets born in the US, and now they are the longest surviving.
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  quietlyleaving

  loubelle

  If you cannot support a child and give it what it needs emotionally, physcially, materially, spiritually then you shouldn't have children.

  in that case no one would have any babies (for arguments sake).
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  kurtbethel

  As number 5 out of 6, I know that squirting out babies is one thing, giving them proper care is quite another matter.