Octuplets Will Likely Cost Taxpayers Millions

Octuplets' mother has 'an alternative way'

(NEWSER) - Octuplet mom Nadya Suleman has no income “at the moment” and will "temporarily" use student loans to raise her children, she said on the Today show. “I am providing for my children,” Suleman said. “I have my own way. It’s an alternative way, but it works.” Suleman receives $490 a month in food stamps and disability aid for three of her older children but doesn’t regard the money as welfare, MSNBC reports. More»

Having 14 kids is 'unconscionable,' says Angela Suleman

(NEWSER) - The mother of the California woman who added octuplets to her brood of six tells Radar that her daughter’s “not capable of raising 14 children.” "She really really has no idea what she's doing to her children and to me. She already has six beautiful children. Why would she do this?” said Nadya Suleman’s mother, Angela, who called her daughter’s efforts to expand her brood “unconscionable.” More»

Nadya won't take taxpayer money

(NEWSER) - The grandfather of the California octuplets says he'll fight for his daughter Nadya Suleman’s right to raise her kids, ABC News reports. "I will stop anybody from taking my grandchildren away," Ed Doud said in an interview with Good Morning America, responding to reports that the hospital currently caring for the octuplets may not release them to their mother. Some have questioned Suleman’s mental health, especially after a recently discovered 911 call in which she threatened to kill herself. More»

(NEWSER) - The grandmother of the California octuplets has backtracked on a well-publicized, and rather dim opinion of her daughter, Us reports. Nadya Suleman “is trying so hard to take care of these children, and she's a good mother,” her mother, Angela, said. “She's a very good mother,” the elder Suleman said, “but then, she had a good example!” More»

(NEWSER) - It's too late for the decision to limit the size of her family, but the octuplets mom has sworn off sex for 18 years, she tells the Sun. "I cannot maintain a social life and be a mother," said single mom Nadya Suleman, 33. "To even take one percent of every night and devote it to someone else would be wrong. I have to wait for that until my youngest has left school." The once-married mom says she hasn't had sex for eight years. More»