As more about her comes out she starts to look more and more like an unstable mother. Bet the state gets involved very soon. It shouldn't have come to this. I feel very sad for the kids.
Nadya Suleman is requesting cash and "items" for her family, after controversial revelations regarding the IVF conception of her 14 children apparently discouraged potential corporate sponsors from offering assistance.
On
www.thenadyasulemanfamily.com, the unemployed single parent - who describes herself as a "proud mother of 14" - provides a link for online donations, and requests that other goods be sent to the office of her recently-hired publicity firm.
"We thank you from the bottom of our hearts", the website states, in anticipation of public help.
Miss Suleman offers visitors to her website the opportunity to "meet the octuplet babies". A picture of each of the eight infants is posted, along with the child's name, birth order and weight.
"We thank you for the love and good wishes from around the world", the former psychiatric technician writes. "The octuplets arrived on 26-1-09. They are all healthy and growing stronger by the day."
Members of the public are unlikely to respond generously to Miss Suleman's appeal. Her decision to have so many children has sparked a global ethical debate, and California taxpayers are reportedly furious that the cost of the octuplets' delivery - which required a 46-strong medical team - and subsequent hospital care may be met by a healthcare programme for the poor. The final cost is expected to be in the region of $3 million (?2.1 million).
Earlier this week, the 33-year-old's publicist Mike Furtney confirmed that his client was receiving $490 (?340) a month in food stamps and an undisclosed amount of "federal supplemental security income" to help care for three of her older children, who suffer from unspecified disabilities. She had initially insisted that she was raising her family without governmental aid, something Mr Furtney said was down to her not considering the payments to be "welfare".
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