The word you are looking for is inconceivable. And if you say it in much the way that Wallace Shaw did in the unforgettable Princess Bride, that will pretty much sum it up.
What else could there be to say about the mother of octuplets, Nadya Suleman, being offered $1 million to appear in a porn video for Vivid Entertainment. Actually she is being offered $1 million and a year of health care costs to "act" in just 1 porn movie. And I have to say she should do it.
Now I realize that I will likely be bombarded by women's rights groups and feminists about what I just said. But the fact is that this mother of 14 has no job, lives off the Government, is in a home of her parents, and is pending eviction due to being $23,000 in arrears. To say that the situation is dire is an understatement of huge proportions. That does not include the roughly $10 million dollar medical bill that she incurred having the children.
I realize that the state of California will be picking up the tab for the medical bill. And of course they will be supplying this mother with an income for everyone to live on. They even will likely pay for a home for the troupe to live in. But that is hardly a life.
The kids will need supervision and relatively sane guidance. They need food, clothing, and other supplies. And that is all before they start to go to school. Can you imagine the cost when you include school supplies for 14? It is unlikely that any single parent, without a winning lotto ticket, could possibly provide all the needs these kids will have - even on Government payrolls.
So the choice becomes this. Either the Government comes in and takes the children from this mother - which the legal system is remiss to do - or they change the laws to provide her and anyone in the future with outsized payments and services. Providing special services and payments to this woman will inevitably lead to others doing the same kinds of insanity, for the same kind of pay.
Thus if Suleman were to have some of the future health care needs, of which the first year has many, eliminated and has the $1 million (I'd negotiate that its a million net after tax) placed in a fund where withdrawals are solely for the needs of the children, it alleviates much of the burden on the public while removing some of the impetus for copycats.
No matter the choice that ends up happening, which I bet will be the porn video - though likely for reasons other than what I have described, Vivid has made a PR coup. There is sure to be a run on their video tapes (not that ANYONE ever buys porn). If this tape does come to fruition it will sell out much like those of celebrities like Pamela Anderson and Paris Hilton (why would anyone watch that vapid skinny excuse of womanhood I cannot imagine).
Is this wrong? On many levels. Then again, the fact that a woman with questionable mental facilities, 6 children (some with special needs), no job, no stable home, was allowed to have more children via artificial means (let alone 8) is even worse than an opportunistic porn video. But not quite as bad as the self-serving ratings grab of Dr. Phil.
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