Octobaby Mom Even Crazier Than We First Suspected - Page 2
“They’re going to watch these kids very carefully for eating problems, growing [problems], and then seizures, jaundice, heart problems, lung problems, blindness, developmental delays — there’s a laundry list of things. Long term, because some of these children will be physically or mentally challenged, there’s a looming price tag out here. The hospital bill alone will run $1.5 to $3 million. Forget about getting to college; just to get through special-needs stuff — it’s going to have to come from somewhere, either the taxpayers of California or her family or her church or the hospital. But she can’t do it alone.”
So what about all that help and support. Nadya's own mother, Angela Suleman, has openly criticized her's daughter's fertility decisions and claims she WON'T be there to help when she come home from the hospital. The other six children live with the elder Suleman and she continues to care for them while Nadya's in the hospital:
Angela Suleman is taking care of the other six children, ages 2 through 7, at the family home in Whittier, about 15 miles east of downtown Los Angeles.She said she warned her daughter that when she gets home from the hospital, "I'm going to be gone
Support system failure seems imminent, is the tax-payers turn to pay for her 14 children?
Curry reported that although Suleman has received disability payments from the state of California, she said she refuses to accept welfare payments. Suleman and her children live with her mother, Angela Suleman.Curry said that Suleman said she intends to return to college in the fall to complete a master’s degree in counseling. Suleman had worked in a state mental hospital from 1997-2006, but spent much of the time after 1999 on disability after injuring her back in a riot at the facility.
That's great, except it's a lie. She accepts food stamps and assistance for her three disabled children. From the LATimes:
Nadya Suleman, the woman who gave birth to octuplets last month, is receiving $490 a month in food stamps, and three of her first six children are disabled and receiving federal assistance, her publicist confirmed to The Times. Continued on the next page
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