There probably shouldn't be a place where people can leave comments, though.
Meanwhile, it looks like the taxpayers will be on the hook over this case.
The article mentions Nadya owes $50,000 in student loans. My, her priorities are certainly screwed on right.
Lowell Kepke, a spokesman for the San Francisco office of the Social Security Administration, said that a single parent with no income qualifies for up to $793 a month for each child with a physical or mental condition that results in "marked or severe functional limitations." That money is used for support and maintenance of the family, and Suleman would not be required to specifically account for how it is spent.
If Suleman's disabled children received the maximum payment, she would get nearly $2,900 a month in state and federal assistance, including the food stamps.
Suleman's octuplets qualify for Medi-Cal, California's healthcare program for the poor. Three sources told The Times that Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower had requested reimbursement for care of the eight premature infants.
About Nadya's disability:
Her workers' compensation file, obtained by The Times, indicates that a doctor hired by the state to evaluate her believes she is now eligible for permanent disability. The state stopped making temporary disability payments Aug. 28. But the records show that she would receive payment for permanent disability. State officials said no determination has been made yet about the amount or duration of her payments.
This "serial mom," if she really wanted children, could have adopted instead of going through an expensive, risky procedure.:
The impulse that has made fertility medicine such a large and lucrative specialty in American medicine is about something other than children; it's about the narcissistic assumption that one is "entitled" to "the experience" of childbearing and, more to the point, the notion that, somehow, if your particular strands of DNA don't live on into another generation, the species will be poorer for it.
That sense of entitlement and its enabling delusion are about a lot of things -- but none of them really involve children.
Is that ever true. Nobody is "entitled" to have children, and if somebody does, he or she has the duty to make sure those children are brought up in the best possible circumstances.
A transcript of her interview with Dateline is here for anybody interested, and readers can watch the entire broadcast here.
This is the first part:
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According to Nadya's father, she falsified the name of the babies' father on their birth certificates.
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