to support those 14 kids, you bet I get to judge. If she were supporting these kids herself, it would be nobody’s business. But, if you expect everyone else to support your children — which she admitted doing — then everybody else gets to comment on your choices.

Also, the hospital is not sending the babies home because they need special care. They are premature and have special needs. it would be irresponsible for the hospital to send the children to a home that could not care for them. Therefore, they care keeping the babies in the hospital where they can receive the proper care and stay healthy.

is that it is along the same lines as the Anna Nicole Smith saga, the Chandra Levy story, and the Jon Benet Ramsey tragedy. All of these are maybe worth reporting initially, but not over and over with no end in sight. They are being used to distract us from the fact that most of these “news” outlets are not reporting on the things we really need to know.

You know, stuff like what Russia, Iran, Venezuela, China, and Al Qaeda are doing. It’s just like the summer before Sept. 11th, 2001. All shiny objects, no substance.

I told her that this woman is obviously mentally incompetent to take care of these 14 children. But, I asked her, if the government has the right to decide she is not fit to have children, even though she has not yet committed any crime, what if they decided that blonde German immigrants shouldn’t aren’t fit to have kids? She’s a blonde, German immigrant.

She was indignant. I haven’t done anything to make the government think I can’t raise kids.

Says you, I said. Once you let the government set standards for parenthood, they can set them any way they want.

I agree with you, Randy. Its a pretty sickening story, but she is still their mother. Barring documented abuse, the government has no say in the matter.

There can be a variety of reasons why they don’t release and they are often ridiculous. They seem to target young single black mothers. If a young single black mother can’t be reached by phone for a night even the patient care staff (nursing) makes an issue over it. Affluent white older mothers don’t get the same treatment, they will give “reasons” why she can’t be reached. Now the young black mother may have no transportation or family to watch her other children but she still tries to make it there. Just being black and poor is enough they call in social services for intervention. This is one area where the poor and/or black are discriminated against and it’s very unfair.
This is sadly very common. Often the NICU social worker is often a lesbian with no children and late 20s early 30s that makes the determination to call child protective services CPS. I don’t care if they are lesbians or not but I wish they had some grandmothers or women with grown kids working these jobs that understand mothering is not about being white with a house in the suburbs. It’s really sad. CPS gets custody when the child is discharged without any type of hearing for the mother at all. CPS interviews the mother, the mother has no lawyer or anything, she might be in a night gown pumping breast milk not really prepared for an interview or up all night, very sleep deprived and so forth. Unless the mother/baby are addicts, it’s all hearsay (I think that is the right word when it’s just what someone says) based on what the patient care staff picks up here and there on the mother’s circumstances. The interview is just a formality.

Good diary. CPS is out of control all over the country.

I have thought for a while that the reason this story got so much traction from the left is that they are against having so many kids. They are anti-family, anti-life, and they get mad about giving money to cute children. Lefties would rather give money to convicts and politicians, but I repeat myself.

Families of 14 kids were not unusual a hundred years ago, and people were a lot poorer then than they are now. I think that Ms. Suleiman will be able to do a fine job taking care of her soccer team (11 plus 3 on the bench) given the help she’ll get from her parents. She just needs to learn how to keep her spending to a budget and stop trying to look like Brangelina.

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