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Mom, 20, giving birth to third set of twins
WFAA.com ^ | Thursday, May 31, 2007 | BRAD WATSON

Posted on 06/01/2007 3:05:30 AM PDT by Daffynition

When it comes to children, one Dallas mother knows about having them in pairs.

The odds are one in 500,000 but she's giving birth today to her third set of twins at Baylor University Medical Center.

But with the joy comes great challenges.

Inside the wood frame house, life resembles the nursery rhyme of the old woman who lived in a shoe.

But here, young mom Amanda Gonzales cares for four-year-old Natalie, three-year-old twins Adam and Sebastian and two-year-old twins Rachel and Raquel.

Two more twin girls are scheduled for a c-section birth today.

"I've always taken care of kids since I was little, I think that's where I got it. When I used to babysit a lot of kids, I wanted to have my own, a lot of kids," she said.

Gonzales enters the rare club of having fraternal twins three times.

She took no fertility drugs.

The father of the latest set of twins hopes he's ready.

"Just focus, trying to have my mind right. Try to have my mind right, you know," said Joshua Brown.

But with neither the 21-year-old father nor the 20-year-old mother employed - all the children are supported by welfare - the young family faces financial and emotional obstacles.

With the headlines fresh of the latest North Texas parent to kill her children, Amanda believes she can handle the stress - so does her mother.

"I've always talked to her and told her about it, if you ever get depressed that bad, you've got people you can you can talk to, your sister, your brother, her boyfriend," said Joan Gonzales.

But unlike nursery rhymes, reality in the end can be rough.


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To: angcat

It won’t happen. She loves kids. Ain’t it sweet? I love filet mignon but I don’t expect the government to fund it for me. In another year there will be more. And the year after that and the year after that......


21 posted on 06/01/2007 7:02:00 AM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: poobear
It is a very rare club...For the record, she is married and all babies had the same EMPLOYED father. I think that club may be even more exclusive :)
22 posted on 06/01/2007 7:18:21 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: rainbow sprinkles
The father of the latest set of twins hopes he's ready.

What do the fathers of the other sets of twins have to say?

Geez....

23 posted on 06/01/2007 7:33:47 AM PDT by Nea Wood (I'm not a bad Christian because I refuse to join you in giving other people's stuff away.)
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To: poobear

There was a couple here in NJ who had two sets of twins (fertility drugs; presumably) and decided they would like another child or twins would be fine again - they had sextuplets. But they were married; the husband was employed; his fellow police officers gave him their vacation time; and their friends and their church helped out a lot. But no government dole!

Why this girl and her mother aren’t ashamed to show their faces I don’t know. Welfare caps didn’t work real well there, did they.

Mrs VS


24 posted on 06/01/2007 7:35:02 AM PDT by VeritatisSplendor
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To: Sue Perkick

Nobody wants to say it, but........she’s 20 and her oldest is four. Meaning that baby was born when she was 16, meaning she was doing..........at age 15 or younger, probably.

What about today’s sex education which is supposed to help our young people make smart sexual choices? Can we really honestly say that her choices are good for her, good for her children, and good for society? And yes, I too wonder about the father or fathers of the other kids, where the heck are they in the picture?


25 posted on 06/01/2007 9:06:19 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ken5050

My first question as well. Is she legal.


26 posted on 06/01/2007 9:10:30 AM PDT by tioga (Fred Thompson for President.)
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To: Hydroshock

I work with the high school, too. We have a separate (more tax dollars) school for the teen moms and a day care. The moms are all so “ooooh, this dude I hooked up with, I think his name is Steve but whatever, anyway and we went out and ooooh, I sooo want another baby.....” Helloooo, they obviously didn’t learn their lesson the first time around.


27 posted on 06/01/2007 11:18:46 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: rainbow sprinkles

Well, isn’t that special.


28 posted on 06/01/2007 11:42:03 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: rainbow sprinkles
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children she didn't know what to do.

Obviously.

29 posted on 06/01/2007 11:45:12 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: Nea Wood
What do the fathers of the other sets of twins have to say?

Adios Muchacha!

Don't Welfarites get more money if they are single moms?

30 posted on 06/01/2007 11:48:59 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: N. Theknow
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children she didn't know what to do. her uterus fell out. OOOHHH.

sorry, it just came to mind immediately when I heard that

31 posted on 06/01/2007 12:08:24 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: N. Theknow

Don’t cha just love “the system” ... it works so well.


32 posted on 06/01/2007 1:33:58 PM PDT by Daffynition (A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.)
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To: rainbow sprinkles

... neither the 21-year-old father nor the 20-year-old mother employed - all the children are supported by welfare


33 posted on 06/01/2007 4:28:02 PM PDT by traumer
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To: ikka

Not to mention this girl is 20 years old so there are still a lot of fertile years left ahead of her.


34 posted on 06/01/2007 4:31:24 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Rudy met his third wife when he was cheating on his first wife with his second wife." Jay Leno)
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To: traumer
I recall Bob Grant [NY talk show host WABC]spoke about mandatory sterilization for welfare recips often. Might not be a bad idea in this case.
35 posted on 06/01/2007 6:06:18 PM PDT by Daffynition (A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.)
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To: rainbow sprinkles

It won’t happen. People will start screaming about eugenics within 5 minutes.

The government does need to stop rewarding them for continuing to have more children. And at some point people need to be forced to work regardless of the age of the children. They can hire sitters just like everyone else who works for a living. The way things are going I don’t know where they’re going to get the money to continue to fund all these welfare programs. We are taxed to the max now. There needs to be an end to the welfare lifestyle passed down from generation to generation.


36 posted on 06/01/2007 6:46:30 PM PDT by Sue Perkick (And I hope that what I’ve done here today doesn’t force you to have a negative opinion of me….)
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To: rainbow sprinkles

It’s an appalling story. But the girl has the “freedom” to do what ever she wants.

And we have the “freedom” to revoke her welfare, through legislation. Would you do it?

We have the “freedom” to deny her hospital care and surgery to deliver them. Would you do it?

A hundred years ago, most of her babies would die. Every day 40,000 babies die of starvation.

Rather than complain and become outraged — we need to either make hard decisions to let these people die, or accept the fact that the US has a safety net for it’s weakest members.

Those are the only two choices.


37 posted on 06/02/2007 10:02:01 AM PDT by Sleeping Beauty
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To: Sleeping Beauty
It is not love to kill a child/fetus. However people who abuse the ‘safety net’ you allude to, do not deserve my hard earned money as an endless stream. You make a mistake ...there’s help. You keep making the same mistake you get your tubes tied. For that I will gladly pay. That, I submit, is a third choice to your two.
38 posted on 06/02/2007 3:59:53 PM PDT by Daffynition (Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.)
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To: Sue Perkick

“She loves kids. Ain’t it sweet? I love filet mignon but I don’t expect the government to fund it for me. In another year there will be more.”

Lol!

On the news this evening, I heard the mama say that she wants at least *twelve* children.


39 posted on 06/02/2007 8:40:42 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: napscoordinator
It is appauling that these losers are bringing in six children into this world at age 20 with no prospects of caring for them financially

Seven, you didn't count the 4 year old singleton.

40 posted on 06/07/2007 1:12:43 PM PDT by El Gato (The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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