Politics | 02/11/2009 3:18 pm

Nadya Suleman's Website Begs for Donations

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Nadya Suleman's Web Site

Nadya Suleman has finally realized that you need more than love to provide for 14 children. Suleman, known more commonly as the mother of octuplets, has just launched a Web site asking for donations for her family.

Created by Los Angeles-based PR firm the Killeen Furtney Group, The site, thenadyasulemanfamily.com, features pictures of her eight newborns, with their birth order, names, gender and weights. The site also includes cartoon drawings of a bottle, rainbow and pacifier, and has two options to donate. She is accepting monetary donations payable by credit card (Visa, Matercard AmEx and Discover) and she has also given an address to which one can send goods.

Suleman’s publicist, Joann Killeen, declined to indicated how much had been donated thus far, Fox News reports.

The launch comes after Ann Curry’s pressing "Dateline" interview with the 33-year-old single mother living with her divorced parents. Curry pressed Suleman on her pathetic financial situation. As the "Dateline" report made clear, Suleman has no income to support her 14 children. The disability payments she got for an on-the-job injury have stopped. Her grad-school loans, totaling $50,000, are spent. She receives food stamps and disability payments to provide for three of her children (one is seriously autistic, one Suleman describes as having ADHD and one she says experienced mild speech delay and what she calls tiny characteristics of autism, as well).

Suleman is also accepting PayPal donations… So, readers, anyone inclined to help?

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I know that we “shouldn’t judge”. That “well nobody says much cross about the Duggars or J&K+8”. I’m sorry, but when you are begging for donations because you lack the funds to raise your brood, when you are receiving SSD payments and food stamps (i.e. federally funded programs that I pay into), you’re asking for judgement. I’m not even going to apologize ahead of time by saying “sorry but”. No, not real inclined to help. She did this (meaning having oodles of children) on PURPOSE. This was no accident. And the difference between this situation and the Duggars or the Gosselins is that they aren’t asking for assistance. The D’s were doing fine with their however-many-they-had prior to their first TV special. J Gosselin is gainfully employed, K used to be; I imagine that without their TV show, money might be tighter, but I bet they’d still be okay. So I may wonder if they’re not insane for their large broods, I don’t wonder about their fitness to raise the children. Octo-mom on the other hand…

By Courtney1 on 02/12/2009 8:31 am

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&… nadya’s uterus up for auction

By nadyasuterus on 02/12/2009 8:49 am

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Yes! Founded in 1992, The Alliance for Children’s Rights has helped more than 50,000 children throughout Los Angeles County: children who are living in foster care, children with learning disabilities, children who need medical treatment or public benefits, and children in need of legal guardianship or adoption. Through direct legal services, community education, and advocacy, The Alliance’s diverse programs are not only serving the immediate needs of children and families, they are also helping to create systemic change that will protect the future of children for generations to come. Among the children we help with our programs are: * Children who need health care * Children who need adoptive families * Children with learning disabilities and developmental delays * Children who need help accessing public benefits and services * Youth who are exiting the foster care system Even though the ebay posting is disgusting!

By TeeZee on 02/12/2009 10:05 am

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BWAHAHAHAHAHA

By fp1 on 02/12/2009 11:02 am

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I wish Miss Suleman well, but I’m waiting for Children Protection Services to step in because I don’t believe this family is capable of raising all 14 children.

By TeeZee on 02/12/2009 10:08 am

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I agree, TZ—this person’s action are unconscionable.

By fp1 on 02/12/2009 10:33 am

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My granny had 14 kids (10 lived to adulthood) She raised them all by herself, she was married but my gramps was a sorry S.O.B., she worked 3 different shifts at the restaurants in the town where she lived.( Wink Texas) If she was capable of raising those children under those circumstances, then Ms. Suleman and her parents are quite capable of the same. And stop griping about how it’s your tax dollars that’s paying for those kids, I would MUCH rather see it go to this woman and her kids than to a “bridge to nowhere” or in one of Exxon’s exec’s pockets .

By CarolynPeterson on 02/13/2009 5:36 pm

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I hope you’re right.

By TeeZee on 02/13/2009 5:49 pm

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I think that we, as taxpayers, are already “helping” Miss Suleman. Anyone contributing to her delusions aren’t “helping”, they are Enabling. Big difference.

By DianaT on 02/12/2009 10:40 am

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I’d like to know how Ms. Suleman managed to get SSI payments for a small child with ADHD. Also for a small child with a mild speech delay. All children are supposed to be medically certified to qualify, and only certain types of disabilities qualify. My teenager who is afflicted with both Down Syndrome and autism has always been denied. When he was small, it was because we had cash value life insurance policies. Last year it was because even though he now lives away at school he came home for the 2 week vacation break, which Social Security said made it the same as if he lived in our home all year, thus meaning we had too much money for him to qualify. Social Security representatives keep reassuring me he qualifies once he turns 18 in 2010. Sounds like officials in California are more lenient, especially if you are unemployed with lots of children.

By SunnyOne on 02/12/2009 10:44 am

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Sunny, what state do you live in? I’ve been involved in special education for over 25 years, and I can’t imagine that your son would not qualify for some sort of assistance. Get a lawyer who spcializes in SSI cases.

By SallyK on 02/12/2009 11:17 am

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I found this disgusting. These kids need help but she doesn’t, unless, well, mentally. Someone needs to be set up as gaurdian to these children and funds should be set up for them and their care. The mother should not be enriched for this. No freebies like home or car but something bought through funds set up for the children. This is the only fair solution I see unless they are adopted out…..another tragedy for these kids. I can’t get these poor babies out of my mind.

By MollyRose on 02/12/2009 11:20 am

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I will be 58 years old in a couple of months. In 2002 on my way to work I was hit by a Delivery Truck at a Red Light, I have been under medical care every since with severe cronic pain due to spinal cord injury. Last month my Food Stamp benefits were cut from $84.00 to $14.00 a month, I receive $ 1100,00 a month to cover all expenses plus medication not covered by medicare. It is s

By NellieCortea on 02/12/2009 11:46 am

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Correction, I get $1,100. a month, not $1100,00 (dream on) My piont is this mom has no shame to have created this situation for herself and her parents, now she wants the tax payers $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.

By NellieCortea on 02/12/2009 12:02 pm

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Hi Nellie - I feel for you and wish that I could point you toward a solution. Unfortunately your story is similar to that of many people and there is little recourse to alleviate such problems is there? A lot of folks are of the opinion that Ms. Suleman and others like her beset by large multiple births are quite correct and even heroic in seeking a payday through exploiting their “problems” for the entertainment of the masses. They’d tune in regularly to see what the latest family exploits are. When I consider that logic I begin to think of people who like you are beset by financial difficulty and why no one has thought to exploit whatever it is that has created difficulties in their lives? Why not bare our naked crazy/ugly/embarrassing/freaky/titillating/gross truths (or more likely the producer’s scripted play on near-truths that make for much better television) on the world stage? Could you ever imagine turning your struggle into a reality show and sweeping your family up into it? We in the west have odd tastes - no?

By E on 02/12/2009 12:31 pm