MY THOUGHTS ON NADYA SULEMAN AND THE OCTUPLETS FIASCO:

Clearly, this is a troubled, dysfunctional family. Nadya Suleman chose to add eight more newborns to her already large family with a man who she refuses to marry, despite all his desperate attempts to make an honest woman of her.

Then there is the grandma, Nadya's mother, who blasts her own daughter all over the world, claiming that she "isn't capable" as a mother, and who calls her actions "unconscionable." SHE brings the media into their tiny, unkempt home. Yet everyone is claiming that it's NADYA who wants attention?!?

I don't know who's worse, the media, the mother, or Nadya. But what I am concerned about most is the children. ALL of them. None of these incessant tongue-waggers are thinking about how all of this negative publicity is going to affect these kids. Are the six older children school age? Has anyone stopped to think about how their lives are going to change at school? Everyone in the city that they live in knows who they are, and now, the whole world knows. These children are being set up for a future full of constant teasing, taunts, and harassment from their peers, neighbors, namely anyone they will come in contact with in the future!

Does anyone even care, though? I don't know about anyone else, but I have had my fill of pompous, idiotic, arrogant, brainless, vain, heartless, callous, loud-mouthed media blowhards who are selfish and full of themselves! These egomaniacs are willing to crucify an entire brood of innocent children for the sake of ratings, for the right to play God, judge and jury for America, even though the citizens of this country never, to my knowledge, appointed that position to them.

I think that this entire situation should be handled much better than it is. Yes, this family is dysfunctional, but clearly they need HELP right now, not criticism and condemnation. The poor children involved in all of this need to be handled with great care and concern. For heaven's sake, they are not going to remain children forever! This country does have, and can offer the resources needed to help this family on ALL accounts. And we definitely don't need to do it for the mom or the grandmother, but for the sake of these unfortunate little children.

Adrian