Obsessed

[rickps]

What can one say about an unmarried woman who appears determined to have children in the same manner that a dog burps out a litter?  Today's news article suggests that this baby factory has been obsessed for some time, perhaps abnormally so.  Attempting to successfully single-parent 14 kids seems a near impossibility.  Perhaps her thinking doesn't include such thoughts, it's just the baby-making process.  It is strange, bizarre.

But are we any better?  Aren't we just as obsessed with titillating news stories of this type?  We expect the media to give birth to one amazing story after another, each being more exciting than the one before it.  And more tomorrow and the next day.  Do we really care what happens after we're full of each latest taste of the atypical?  It is strange, bizarre.

Comments

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

Hopefully this story will make some changes to fertility practices. Foster parents and Adoption parents are heavily scrutinized to make sure they will be fit parents. Why the fuck don't we apply that same scrutiny to fertility clinics???

[beardoc.livejournal.com]

I think this might be the best thing resulting from the story.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

I'm not obsessed with her or this type of news story. It's just the main articles slapping you in the eyes every time one logs on to a news site. It all just left a bad taste in my mouth.

[ricksf.livejournal.com]

My point exactly, Bill. Our national hunger for news, the more bizarre the better, makes us much like this tragic baby machine. We demand the media repeatedly give birth to story after extraordinary story. Are we really any better than she is?

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

In a word: Yes.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

The woman is mentally ill ...

She declared bankruptcy last year ...

She says she wants to nurse all 8 of them. If that were to happen, she'd be nursing 12 hours a day and have to produce a gallon of breast milk.

She lives at home with her folks and her first six children.

She is mentally ill and we're going to end up paying for her kids.