Octuplets

On Monday, in Bellflower CA, a woman gave birth to octuplets. It is the second in the history of the United States. Doug said he doesn’t care how many kids that you have, somewhere along the line you have to consider the health of your wife and the babies. You aught to remember all their names, their birthdays and be able to spend some quality time with them. Not only does this woman have 8 newborn babies but--- these are in addition to 6 older children. We are talking about 14 children! All these embryos were implanted and so a doctor planted all 8 in this woman. Normally a doctor would implant 2. This woman is already 32 years old, why 8?

This brings up some real ethical questions here. When you already have 6 healthy children and considering the youngest being twins, but why 8? That is wonderful that they have the dedication to raise a family of 6 but why would you implant 8 embryos! The mother did have the decision to terminate a number of the children and she chose not to and that is admirable. But all these babies are going to be trust fund babies. Who is going to pay for these babies?

A source from CBS news found that the couple declared bankruptcy and abandoned their home a little over a year ago. The marital status is in question as well and to add to that the father is returning to Iraq.

The average family income is about 43,000 dollars a year. It costs 143,000 dollars to raise a child from their birth to 17 years of age. If you factor in 14 children, to raise them until they get through high school will cost just under 2 million dollars.

Caller David is from a family of 13 kids. In their situation the older kids were a tremendous help in raising the younger children. Some of the kids in the middle feel a little cheated but that is normal. In this case with the 8 newborns, the older kids are still way too young to take care of the babies.

Caller Lydia wanted to say that the fact that the doctor implanted 8 embryos is ridiculous. She has a daughter that has had infertility problems and recently paid 20,000 dollars for an artificial insemination. Her daughter and her husband had saved for years to afford that. It infuriates her that such an irrational action would be taken.

Caller Ryan said that we all know that it is the American tax payers that will take care of the cost. Doug said that somewhere you think that common since would kick in.

Outrage of the day: 18 billion in bonuses were given on Wall Street last year! President Obama called this behavior shameful! That is one of the highest numbers in history and it comes last year when everything was crumbling around them.