Octuplets' mother has enough problems already

You wanted fame, Nadya Suleman. Now you got it. The 33-year-old unemployed single mother of six, including two-year-old twins, underwent fertility treatments in an effort to get 'just one more girl' and gave birth to eight babies last month in Los Angeles.

Born premature, the six boys and two girls are expected to be in hospital for another six weeks.

The eight children brings Suleman's total to 14 kids. Incredible. Suleman's mother, Angela, told Fox News the six kids her daughter already has are not being taken care of properly. "She already has six beautiful children, why would she do this?" Angela Suleman said in an interview. "I'm struggling to look after her six. We had to put in bunk beds, feed them in shifts and there's children's clothing piled all over the house."

Add eight to the mix, and you’re looking at a lifetime of neglect, inattention, isolation and who-knows-what-else.

But at least their mom got on national TV, right?

There she was on the Today show, defending her selfish decision to bring eight more kids into a world that will probably have to support them, at least until after the cash she got from NBC for her exclusive interview runs out

It gets better. As if these poor kids didn't have enough problems already with their apparently lunatic mother, one of the six she already had is autistic – a full-time job when you've only got one child – and two others have undisclosed disabilities. Suleman paid for the fertility treatments that resulted in her litter with a $165,000 injury settlement she received for a 1999 injury, and she's attempted to support her kids with $50,000 in student loans. She has said all along that she and her family would not have to rely on welfare, that she would find another way to support her kids.

And she has. She has set up a website asking the public for money. Talk about a go-getter.

I love kids, but adding one more when you're already struggling to support six is a selfish decision; adding eight is evidence of psychological problems.

The story is unfortunate at best and tragic at worst, because you're talking about one woman's decision to screw up more lives than just her own – vulnerable lives who just want to be held and cuddled. But with 14, you're looking at more affection than one person is capable of handling.

And that's the worst part of all of this. Babies aren't an accessory, like a purse, or shoes. They're little people who need food and shelter to survive, true, but to truly thrive as people and grow up with a value system of right and wrong, they need love and guidance – love and guidance they're just not going to get from a woman who cares more about getting on television than she does about her children's futures. Sad, indeed.