Octuplets Family $23,225 Behind On Mortgage Payments
CNN is reporting that the house that the octuplets mom is living in is currently in default, and the mortgage owner, the grandmother of the octuplets, is $23,225 behind on her mortgage payments.
News of the foreclosure is the latest twist in the tale of Suleman and her children.
Suleman, 33, had the octuplets through fertility treatments, despite being single and already having six young children and no clear source of income.
CNN says that the Suleman family could not be reached for comment because their phone had been disconnected.
Their website, however, seems to be working and is accepting donations.
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This woman is the height of stupidity and irresponsibility.
Paypal to the rescue?
I feel bad for the people involved, especially the kids and the woman's mother. I will not be donating, however. This woman is irresponsible, selfish, and clearly doesn't even think of her children before herself. I have no sympathy for her situation.
Darwin didn't strike soon enough.
Smells like someone needs a bailout!
Welcome to America, where you have the freedom to have as many kids as you want. And where you also have the freedom to be a deadbeat. And where, thank God, we have a system for taking children away from people who compulsively exercise both of those freedoms.
If you take a look at TMZ.com they have her on cam buying $14 lip gloss yesterday (i think) and the other day she was getting a manicure.
Doesn't seem like she's too worried about getting evicted.
I wonder why the Comments section of her website is shut off?
I feel bad for her family and kids. However, I also believe that all of her kids taken away by child services because of her financial irresponsiblility and inability to care for her children.
/If you can't afford them, DON'T HAVE THEM!
I'm usually a supporter of children staying with their parents but this situation is ridiculous and this woman clearly has serious mental issues. Is there even such a thing as baby addiction? Health and Human Services really needs to swoop in and make her a proud mother of zero children.
Seriously, I hope this ends with all of her children being taken away from her for the negligent way she went about getting them. Fourteen is far too many children for a single parent with "no clear source of income."
@Sidecutter: The selfish really comes out in how the web page says "Welcome to the Nadya Suleman Family website" It's all about her, they might as well drop the word family off of that. She needs a better publicist ( althoug I think hers quit so she doesn't even have one ) anyone could tell her you will get much more sympathy money if you play down yourself and play up the kids, but the 1st two things you see are her picture and name.
I do feel for the children and the rest of the family, but the family should of stepped in and did something about it. If you know she is " not all there" don't you think that you should of taken her to a doctor or something?
She is making a circus out of this and enjoying the attention. I feel more for the family than I do for her.
@semanticantics: Probably because all the comments said "I hope your children are taken away by family services you public assistance sucking, Angelina Jolie wanna-be freak!!"
....just a guess though.
@gtrgod01:
of course she isnt, its her parent's house. I bet the parents are behind because they were trying to feed this lady's older kids instead of paying the mortgage.
The comments page for her website is unavailable. haha
Utterly absurd, maybe they'll foreclose and finally allow those children to at least potentially have a decent place to live. It really burns my toast hearing about what people will do for publicity.
Fertility treatment isn't cheap, how did she even afford that?
@MonkeyMonk: I knew a girl who had major abandonment issues and decided having a baby would solve them. I think she explained it as, her daughter would always need and love her. It's actually pretty common. Sadly, people with issues like that often pass them on to their children. It's a never ending cycle.
And is it just me, or does that photo of her make her look like she's had some plastic surgery? Botox, cheeks, lips...
@plamoni: I don't think we do, actually. Failure to pay one's bills isn't generally a concern of the child protection folks.
This case does raise interesting questions for which there are no good answers...
We, as a society, have never penalized people in the past for having children they cannot afford. Indeed, we have things like the WIC program, CHIP, Medicaid, Head Start, etc., all to help parents raise children they cannot afford to have.
Yes, this woman clearly has mental problems, and it was irresponsible for the doc to ever insert that many embryos. However, where do we draw the line on "too many kids"?
Rules saying "No fertility treatments unless you have X income for your current Y children plus one." might be a start. But you don't need a fertility doctor to have kids. All you need is a sperm donor, and sex or a turkey baster and the need for a doc is gone. (Okay, you are unlikely to have octuplets this way, but you can certainly still turn yourself into a baby factory, and nobody is going to be able to stop you.)
Limits on the number of embryos implanted are an idea, but some parents, especially ones that cannot afford multiple treatments, reasonably want as high a chance as possible of a pregnancy. More embryos = higher chance of being pregnant.
Ah, we could put in hard limits (say, three) on the number of embryos, and then make the next round of treatment free if the first round doesn't work! Nope. That would discourage clinics from taking on hard cases since those would increase their costs.
All this said, I am having a hard time imagining how this woman could possibly NOT neglect her kids since she has so many. There just aren't enough hours in the day to take care of them all, even with the help of her parents, who also sound like they are not exactly thrilled with the situation either.
@cabjf: That's sad because its true. Alot of girls who went to HS with me had kids because they felt their parents didn't care about them. Now that their older, they leave the kid with their parents as they go out and party. Very, very sad cycle.
Dear Psycho Broad,
Don't worry. Go right ahead and breed as much as you damn well please. We'll continue to pick up the tab.
Signed,
Your Loving Government
This lady is a nut case.
@josephbloseph:"Seriously, I hope this ends with all of her children being taken away from her for the negligent way she went about getting them"
As do I. She is being extremely reckless, and right now it seems that its just to feed her over inflaed ego, cinsidering all the media attention shes getting.
Funny, the leave a comment section doesn't work on her page...I wonder why?
Also I'd rather light my money on fire then send it to that lady.
The sad fact is that if she had 14 dogs or cats (instead of kids) and they were living in the same situation the city would take them away and label her as an animal hoarder. She is a children hoarded. She really needs to have her kids taken away until she can show that she is a responsible adult and an able parent. If you have 6 kids, are jobless, living off your parents who are behind on their mortgage, why are you paying to get pregnant again?
I guess having more kids is an easy way to get more government help.
Just get your own reality show on TLC and you're set.
Her kids must be gay already. There's a rainbow on the front page.
I am sure the Obama financial team will bail her out.
@IT-Chick: What server array have you been hiding under, IT-Chick?
Nutshell- she worked as a California psych ward assistant years back, supposedly pulled alot of overtime and saved up, then was back injured by one of the wack patients, then got disability or a settlement to the tune of $165k over 5-6-7 years. Probably got into the baby making hobby when she had so much time on her hands...She is supposed to have student loans for $50k.
It was reported Grandma Suleman didn't even know about the $165k settlement until recently when a journalist asked Grandma about it.
@TKOtheKDR: Agreed. Hell hath no fury like my scorn for this woman, but all that is going to happen is that she will make millions on her inevitable TV show, interviews with Oprah and best-selling books.
@MonkeyMonk: Baby hording? I suppose when it gets out of control (say, with 14 kids) and the children aren't being taken care of well anymore- then off they'll go to foster homes.
Gah sorry, I don't regularly follow the lives of deadbeat losers. Thanks for the nutshell.
Sick f$%%^ing world this is! She has 6 kids and want have another and has to use fertility treatments and it so happens that she ends up with 8 more?! Her and her doctor should be sent to North Korea. The kids are really the only ones I feel bad for.
I vote for the best tabloid nickname ever: "Octo-mom"
(of course a James Bond film could give the other less printable reference)
@sirwired: "We, as a society, have never penalized people in the past for having children they cannot afford. Indeed, we have things like the WIC program, CHIP, Medicaid, Head Start, etc., all to help parents raise children they cannot afford to have."
That is also the economic premise of illegal immigrants' "anchor babies" since the child is a US citizen the aid provider cannot ask the parent's citizenship status.
My heart breaks when I think of those kids and those grandparents. Ms. Suleman had destroyed her kids' lives before they even got started, and I suspect she's destroyed any hope her parents had for retirement.
If she genuinely can't see the inherent difficulties of raising fourteen kids (at least three of them disabled (according to media reports) by herself, she needs to be committed and the children fostered out.
Isn't that a shock.
I feel bad for all the people related to that woman. She has put them in a really bad spot.