Economic Responsiblity

While Congress and the President debate on the best way to be economically responsible and get the economy moving, I thought I would write a little about another kind of economic responsibility, parenthood.


We have all seen the news about the woman in southern California who gave birth to the octuplets. This woman already has six children, is single and is unemployed. Supposedly she did receive a disability payment of $165,000.00 that was spread out over several years, but no doubt that money is all gone.

In an interview she gave Ann Curry of NBC the woman stated that she had multiple (6) embryos implanted for each pregnancy but this time they all took and some even divided.


Why does a single woman need fourteen kids? More important, why did the clinic implant the embryos knowing she was single and unemployed? (How did she pay for the procedure? Did state Medicaid pay? Is this our tax dollars at work, creating more bodies for the welfare rolls?)

Where is society's responsibility in a case like this? It takes a village to educate a child. The village needs to educate perspective parents before they have children.

What is going to happen to these fourteen children? Will they end up being wards of the state, being placed in foster homes, or worse, juvenile detention centers?

We (society) need to hold people like this mother responsible for her actions. We should not feel sorry for her and her decision. We need to hold her accountable and make her take care of her family. She was getting disability for a back injury, how is she going to carry around infants with a bad back?

In these tough economic times, when lay offs are occurring in the thousands everyday, and donations to charities are drying up, we all have to be responsible for the consequences of our actions. Being unprepared to deal with the care of new human lives is a crime. Unfortunately it is the children who will end up suffering the most.

A question for you. During these tough economic times, should embryo clinics do detailed background checks on their clients before implanting the embryo? Should the clinic have the right to say, you already have children we can not assist in giving you more?

Who is the responsible party in this decision? Or are their multiple parties who all need to be part of the decision?

Your tax dollars will eventually come into play in cases like this one because we know the woman will be going to the state for welfare. Do we have a right to tell our legislators how to spend our tax dollars in our states? Should we be responsible for the children of poor single mothers?

I think we need a lot more say in how our money is spent and we need to start getting out the message that people need to be responsible and pay for their actions. After all, they are of the opinion that we will pay to take care of them, its time they were taught that they will need to pay to take care of themselves.

Its Common Sense!