Mom has quadruplets 3 years after triplets

AP/Yahoo ^ | 7/12/06 | FRANCISCA ORTEGA

[martin_fierro]

Er, WHAT elephant in the living room?

Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine doctor Kathryn Shaw, holds the quadruplets, two boys and two girls, born to Angela Magdaleno, at the White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, Wednesday, July 12, 2006. Doctor Shaw led the team that delivered the quadruplets on July 6. (AP Photo/Stefano Paltera)

[martin_fierro]

I don't suppose anything's jumping out atcha, huh.

[onyx]

All 11 family members will be living in a one-bedroom apartment in East Los Angeles. Magdaleno said the living room is large and the babies are small, but she isn't sure what the family will do when they get bigger.

[cyborg]

I wonder how much these drugs change your body after you're done with them.

[NormsRevenge]

"She wanted to run," said her husband Afredo Anzaldo, 45, who lays carpet for a living.

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He should have tried to lay carpet more and not taken her for so many runs. ;-)..

[river rat]

Copulating and Populating......soon to be a majority.

Simply doing what Americans won't do...

Semper Fi

[Scotswife]

"I wonder how much these drugs change your body after you're done with them."

They stay in your system for awhile.

[BruceysMom]

Great I love it when poor people have "litters"

[Pyro7480]

What do you want to do about it? The Margaret Sanger solution, perhaps???

[Allah AtBar]

Enough anchors to keep the ship in harbor for a lifetime...

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Wanna bet that their filling out a tax-payer funded grant to raise their tribe?????

~GCR~

[ValerieUSA]

Their?

[BruceysMom]

How about birth control or even abstinence? If you can't afford children why continue to have them and let people who pay taxes foot the bill? It's a great idea if you're a socialist, but as a capitalist I resent it. And you're insulting, I am completely anit-abortion except for when the mother's life is in danger. The decision to have a child is made prior to conception. Maybe a reading comprehension course would help. The pertinent word in my post was "poor"

[Pyro7480]

If you can't afford children why continue to have them and let people who pay taxes foot the bill?

NOWHERE does the article state that the family is being completely sustained by the government. You're jumping to conclusions.

And you're insulting, I am completely anit-abortion except for when the mother's life is in danger.

Then you're not completely anti-abortion, are you?

Maybe a reading comprehension course would help.

Now you're the one being insulting.

[BruceysMom]

Precisely junior,the article says that only one person works in a family of nine, unless dad is very wealthy they cannot afford medical, food, clothes, transportation, and life in general for nine people. They live in a one bedroom apartment, and have lived there even after having the first three children. In many places that is illegal. No I do not believe that a mother, with other children, should sacrifice her life for the life of an unborn child. I am Jewish and I believe that the needless sacrifice of a life is a sin. When you grow up you'll learn that when you insult someone they often insult you back. Better learn to take it if you're going to dish it out. Funny how you say "NOWHERE does the article state that the family is being completely sustained by the government." That "completely" in your reply speaks volumes.

[LongElegantLegs]

Great I love it when poor people have "litters"

That's a cruel choice of words.

[BruceysMom]

Perhaps, but accurate.

[LongElegantLegs]

I don't think so. I have three children with one more on the way, we live in an apartment in the 'don't leave your car unlocked' part of town, and my husband makes well under 30K a year.
I have, according to various people, a brood, a litter, a sideshow, a tribe, and a pack. The pejoratives get old really fast.

Perhaps the reason these people live in a one bedroom apartment is because, like us, they don't take government assistance. If they were, I imagine they'd have a larger, subsidized place. According to the article the father is present, and has a job. It's more than we can say for a lot of people.

[BruceysMom]

I suppose that it sounds that way, actually it was kinder than what I was thinking. I work my ass off, I can't have kids and can't afford any more infertility treatment and even if I could, after 14 years of it I'm now too old. Now I'll have the privilege of paying for at least education, and most likely most every thing else, for someone else's children because they had them when they couldn't afford them. Sour grapes? Some of course, but mostly I'm just tired of subsidizing everyone else and scraping by my self because of it. If that family could easily care for these children financially I'd be the first to say "Mazel Tov" and mean it.

[BruceysMom]

I see you, like me have a personal stake in this. We both hurt on different sides of the equation. My best friend has three beautiful kids that I am godmother to. She works her butt off and takes great care of them. I would never consider three kids a litter a brood a team. I wouldn't call ten kids that if mom and dad support them. I just don't want to pick up the slack.