OctoMom Nadya Suleman, 'I think it was a mistake' referring to her octuplets

August 5, 7:46 PMGlobal Entertainment ExaminerKristy Stevens-Young

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   How could one Mom be there for 14 children?    (AP)

In what is a surprise to only Nadya Suleman herself, the Octomom has finally realized that can’t give 100% to each of her 14 children. The odd part was she apparently didn’t seem to see that as a problem when she only had six kids!

Suleman has had a lot of criticism for choosing to bring 14 children into the world while unemployed. While she paid for the in-vitro fertilization, the State of California was stuck with enormous hospital and doctor bills. There are still unanswered questions about the aid that both she and some of her children received and in some cases are still receiving.

As many parents struggle with having to earn money, get all the chores done (groceries, cleaning, clothes washing, etc.), they are more than aware how hard it is to fulfill their child’s needs 24/7 and how even two can pull you very thin. How in the world did Suleman except to be able to be there for each child when she has 14 of them vying for her attention?

Since Suleman already had six children, it is hard to sympathize with her new found revelation. As she admits to US magazine:

I think it was a mistake -- in terms of the well-being of the octuplets and of my other kids. I can't give myself to them 100 percent...if I'd known that, I never would have fathomed having eight more."

After hearing what Suleman said, Lawyer Gloria Allred jumps in with her take:

I think it's very, very sad when any mother calls her child, or in this case, eight little babies, a mistake.

How are the babies going to feel when they grow up and read one day, as they will, or view on the internet, as they will, the fact that their mother calls them a mistake?

That is just very, very sad to me as a person who is an advocate for children. Even if she thinks it, the fact that she sad it is very, very troubling because has she considered the impact that would have on the children long-term?

That's a question to which I don't have the answer, but I think that many people will agree with me that it's rather disturbing that she would say that,"

But, did Suleman actually call her children a mistake? She stated that it was a mistake in the terms of being able to give them all 100% but she did not come right out and refer to the children themselves as a mistake.

What do you think about what Suleman said? Do you think she is saying having the Octuplets is a mistake period? Or do you think she is simply saying  having so many children in terms of being able to give each one 100% is  a mistake?

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