GirlTalk

For two days Dr. Phil, TV’s psychologist to the masses, pressed Nadya Suleman for answers to his questions. For two days, she ran circles around him avoiding most direct answers.

The question the good doctor said that most people wanted answered was did she acknowledge that having even one more baby, after having six that she couldn’t care for, was a mistake. Suleman said it was after a pause. She later said it was because no mother wants to say that having their baby(ies) was a mistake and that she was fearful she wouldn’t be permitted to bring her children home.

Luckily someone is looking out for the children as long as they are able. The hospital, where the babies are in the NICU, called Suleman and told her that renovations would have to be carried out on the home where she and her first six children and her mother were living. The home that is $23,000-plus in mortgage arrears. Not only that, special medical attention will be required at home for the preemies, who it is estimated will need approximately $135,000of care per month.

I’m sorry, but I thought Dr. Phil was smarter than that. It was more than obvious with the almost constant smirking she was doing that this woman is no dummy. She’s not stupid by any stretch of the imagination. She was going for her Master’s degree in counseling after all wasn’t she?

Did Dr. Phil forget about that? He said she didn’t have a plan for the babies after their birth, that all she did have was a career plan.

He was exactly right about that and she planned on using those little babies to finance her college education. She already had three children on disability, while she lived with her mother and had won her own disability case previous (to the tune of about $165,000).

Her mother, Angela, said that Suleman even lied to her about her pregnancy, after Angela had already begged the fertility doctor NOT to impregnate her. Suleman explained that she’d had an ovarian cyst and that her mother misunderstood.

Even when Suleman was 17, her mother brought her to a psychologist because of her intense desire for children, which some pschological experts have been offering diagnoses on in the media.

Whether or not she had some sort of mental health issue or not, doesn’t negate the fact that this woman knew that with each additional baby, her food stamps would increase, as well as assistance for her schooling. And having that many fertilized embryos inserted inside herself, she almost ensured that some if not all her children would require some special medical assistance to say the least, if not ensuring more severe forms of birth defects that would bring in additional disability money.

People that I’ve heard discussing the subject (wondering why Dr. Phil even stepped in) ponder the reasons for the subject still making news. Well Dr. Phil gave his reasoning on that (you know that everyone thought she was so ignorant and didn’t realize she’d made a mistake?).

My opinion is different. I just think she planned to live off the good will and public welfare system. Maybe she really planned on becoming a counselor someday, and hiring nannies for all her babies.

Who knows… but as Dr. Phil says and other do-gooders are saying, we need to consider the children.

I don’t think that eventuality was ever even considered to go another way. And that’s a good thing. Even if people are upset and angry at her decision, they will still step up to help out the children - no matter what, because they are blameless in the entire scenario.

That was prettey ingenious of her wasn’t it?