If you don't live in California, count yourself lucky-- because taxpayers there will likely have to cover the costs for Nadya Suleman's arrogance and selfishness.
The cost of a premature baby's hospital stay in California is estimated to amount to $165,000-- for a total of $1.3M in the case of Megamom. The average cost for just one cesarean birth is $23K-- for a total of $182,000 in the case of Megamom. If any of the octuplets ends up with a disability (very likely for a premie), then Megamom will be eligible for up to $793 per month. And according to the USDA, the cost (to a single mom) of raising fourteen children to the age of 17 will range from $1.3 million to $2.7 million.
On the internet, bloggers rained insults on Suleman, calling her an "idiot," criticizing her decision to have more children when she couldn't afford the ones she had, and suggesting she be sterilized.
"It's my opinion that a woman's right to reproduce should be limited to a number which the parents can pay for," Charles Murray wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles Daily News. "Why should my wife and I, as taxpayers, pay child support for 14 Suleman kids?"
She was also berated on talk radio, where listeners accused her of manipulating the system and being an irresponsible mother.
"From the outside you can tell that this woman was playing the system," host Bryan Suits said on the "Kennedy and Suits" show on KFI-AM. "You're damn right the state should step in and seize the kids and adopt them out."
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