Birth of Octuplets Raises Questions
Posted on February 5, 2009
Filed Under Parenting, Social Concern
She already had six children. Now, an unmarried woman has another eight. What to make of this?
This is not a situation from which one can easily draw conclusions. For instance, as someone who is pro-life, I affirm the value and dignity of these children. They deserve the best care possible and a loving supportive family. However, there really isn’t a loving, supportive family for them.
There is a single mother. There’s no father on the scene. The grandfather is reportedly off to Iraq to work as a translator. Their grandmother has indicated she will be moving out of the small house that is now home to 14 children.
Now, I’ll admit that this group of kids and a mom constitute a family. Practically, though, how much can one woman do to raise those kids?
The only adult in the lives of these octuplets will be their mother. Who else will be a caring, engaged adult for them to learn and find protection and security from? Things can change, and perhaps there is a support group of friends, neighbors and co-workers who will step in and help out. Maybe a man – or several men – will offer to be present in the lives of these children.
What do you make of this?
Loading ...Carrie Earll wrote for CitizenLink about the ethics of in vitro fertilization.
Many legal and moral questions surround IVF, including questions of ownership regarding unimplanted embryos when married couples divorce and the moral status of additional embryos—whether frozen or destroyed.
This is a brief and very good overview of what the technology is, and how it can cause some disturbing results.
Let’s talk to interested folks about this, and raise some of the questions that need to be discussed.
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This is a tragedy! Its indicative of the further demise of society.. Its a blatant kick-in-the-teeth for manhood!.. specifically the role of fatherhood.. Its ultimately abuse! Women ‘using’ the male bit that satisfies their own needs. Just because women ‘ house the growing baby within their body’ it doesnt make them ‘own’ the baby as their right. Because they can, women now consider it their right to do so. Yet another dysfunction in society.. Father forgive them for they know not what they do! One wonders what decisions one-of-fourteen fatherless children will make as adults to fulfill their unmet childhood needs!??