FrancisPage: It Sure Beats Foster Care

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

It Sure Beats Foster Care

California's notorious Octomom is getting either (a) the care she and her children desperately deserve or (b) a postnatal bailout, depending on your perspective.

As Reuters tells us:

California's octuplets mom has agreed to allow a foster nursing charity to provide care for her eight newborns and six older children for at least six months, television therapist Dr. Phil McGraw said on Monday.

Under the agreement between the mother, Nadya Suleman, and the philanthropic foundation Angels in Waiting, she and all 14 children will live together in a new home found for the family near her current neighborhood in suburban Los Angeles, a spokeswoman for McGraw said.

And about that house...

According to the news website TMZ.com, a four-bedroom, three-bathroom house with a large backyard is being purchased for the family by her father, with a "substantial down payment" coming from money Suleman has amassed in recent weeks, much of it presumably from donations.

Dr. Phil gives me a rash, and I cringe at the celebritization of this dysfunctional delivery. What is Nadya Suleman doing on Entertainment Tonight, fercryinoutloud? However, if this new arrangement keeps the children in something resembling a normal family life (and I know that term has more stretch marks than the mother at this point) and out of state custody, then more power to them. I don't want to see these children treated as charity cases, but none of us want them on public assistance, either.

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