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Single Parenting and the mom of eight, well, fourteen
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<blockquote data-quote="Marcie Mac" data-source="post: 242896" data-attributes="member: 47"><p>I watched her unveiling to the world yesterday and came away thinking she should have spent a lot of quality time with a therapist BEFORE having all of these kids as she seemed to be living in another world where having 14 kids was a cake walk - one of her older ones is autistic, and who knows what kinds of problems the new premies will have.</p><p> </p><p>Nothng is a problem - its all ok, I am going back to school in September to get my masters so I can support us all. The problem is, as one of the psychatric professors at UCLA said on the radio yesterday, she has never supported herself. Her financial support has come from her enabaling parents who take care of the 7 she already had, school grants, disability payments (which have now stopped). She is counting on her parents, friends, and her church to step up to the plate. She would like the sperm donor, a friend of hers, to step up to the plate as well and get involved in his kids (all 14 of them) lives. </p><p> </p><p>One must feel a lot of emptyness to think you need 14 children to fill a void. She kept saying she loves kids - what will happen when they are not so cute anymore when they hit the dreaded teen years, and one or more of them is a raging difficult child - she probably doesn't even know what a difficult child is.. The scarey part of this whole thing to me is she is a pysch major and doesn't see the obsessivness of this whole process.</p><p> </p><p>She was very defensive in the interview when it was brought up that a lot of people do not agree with her decision to do this. When she was explaing her desire for children, it kinda creeped me out as it came across as she wanted to do some kind of martian meld with them.</p><p> </p><p>Its not about being a single parent - been there done that but now that I am older am aware of how much the male father figure fits into the who picture, nor do I think we should be limiting the amount of kids one should have, as long as you can afford financially to take care of them. </p><p> </p><p>Marcie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marcie Mac, post: 242896, member: 47"] I watched her unveiling to the world yesterday and came away thinking she should have spent a lot of quality time with a therapist BEFORE having all of these kids as she seemed to be living in another world where having 14 kids was a cake walk - one of her older ones is autistic, and who knows what kinds of problems the new premies will have. Nothng is a problem - its all ok, I am going back to school in September to get my masters so I can support us all. The problem is, as one of the psychatric professors at UCLA said on the radio yesterday, she has never supported herself. Her financial support has come from her enabaling parents who take care of the 7 she already had, school grants, disability payments (which have now stopped). She is counting on her parents, friends, and her church to step up to the plate. She would like the sperm donor, a friend of hers, to step up to the plate as well and get involved in his kids (all 14 of them) lives. One must feel a lot of emptyness to think you need 14 children to fill a void. She kept saying she loves kids - what will happen when they are not so cute anymore when they hit the dreaded teen years, and one or more of them is a raging difficult child - she probably doesn't even know what a difficult child is.. The scarey part of this whole thing to me is she is a pysch major and doesn't see the obsessivness of this whole process. She was very defensive in the interview when it was brought up that a lot of people do not agree with her decision to do this. When she was explaing her desire for children, it kinda creeped me out as it came across as she wanted to do some kind of martian meld with them. Its not about being a single parent - been there done that but now that I am older am aware of how much the male father figure fits into the who picture, nor do I think we should be limiting the amount of kids one should have, as long as you can afford financially to take care of them. Marcie [/QUOTE]
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