Octo-Mom

How judgmental are we as a whole in society?  How judgmental are we as individuals?  What does Christ call us to be? How does Christ call us to act?  Why does the media have such a powerful hold over what we think and what we see?  Why is it so incredibly easy for us to follow the lives of individuals who have more money, starred in a film, or has six children and just delivered 8 more?  Octo-Mom is a new woman who has been introduced into society because of the number of children she has.

 Why does “Octo-Mom” have this name anyway? She is a typical woman who happened to get pregnant with multiple children more than once. Her actual name is Nadya Suleman.

On February 15, 2009, some individual in our wonderful judgmental cannot get enough of everyone else’s life society, made a video mocking in sense, Nadya Suleman.  Seriously, grow up people. 

An article I read from the New York daily news covered Nadya Suleman going shopping.  The article talked about Suleman looking at Nintendo Wii’s to purchase, plus the controllers to go with the game console.  However, the question was: how will she pay for this?  The article goes into how a new website was launched, henadyasulemanfamily.com, in which the family is soliciting donations.  I do not blame the media completely, but why is it anyone else’s business about what the family does.  People solicit things online all of the time, but because this woman has given two multiple births, she is covered like a celebrity in the newspapers.  Sadly, I think there are more pressing matters to attend to in the world such as the war in Iraq, the stimulus plan, and our new president, versus a mother who got fertility treatments, has 14 children now, and has people judging her.

I googled “octo-mom” out of curiosity of how the media was handling this. A blog popped up, http://ronnisrants.blogspot.com, talking about Nadya Suleman’s life.  Ronni goes on and on about how Nadya purposefully did this to herself.  Ronni implies that Nadya should have had an abortion. Okay, really! Stop there. Why is this any of her business to judge?

I do not understand why people’s lives are so fascinating that our blogs and news articles center around these people. From a Christian perspective, Christ has allowed doctors to come up with ways to aid the fertility process. Sometimes the fertility help allows a mother to give birth to one child, sometimes to more.  Nadya Suleman has 14 children.  She wanted them.  I think it is commendable that she got pregnant twice with more than one child.  Yes, some of the kids have health problems, but she loves them enough to have not aborted them, which is more than some can say.  To Nadya, “Octo-mom” should really be called “Super-Mom!”  I love that she had these children, kept them, and loves them.  Despite the economy and how much money they have, good for her to try to raise donations for her babies.

 

Sources:

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2009/02/13/2009-02-13_wii_octomom_nadya_suleman_goes_shopping_.html

Ronnisrants.blogspot.com