Faith keeps Mom, 10 kids hopeful (Where's the daddy? A national disgrace!)

Naples Daily News ^ | 3/16/2006 | Jeremy Cox

[FerdieMurphy]

...her children, who range in age from 5 months to 15 years, have been watching television and playing video games to pass the time.

Where did the money come from to buy the video games?

Laitaille, a native of the Bahamas who moved to Miami at 7 years of age, decided from an early age she wanted a big family.

Having a big family with a husband would be hard enough, but not marrying at least one of the fathers of these 10 children is unconscionable!

[thoughtomator]

Also how can someone be a nurse in the USA and be unemployed? The demand for nurses is through the roof - it is so high that we import huge numbers of them to try and achieve appropriate staffing levels.

[Tax-chick]

She was once engaged to be married to the man who fathered eight of her children, but he moved back to the east coast instead.

Stuff like this, you almost think it has to be "The Onion."

[highlander_UW]

In the meantime, her children, who range in age from 5 months to 15 years, have been watching television and playing video games to pass the time. Those who are old enough to go to school can’t because they don’t have a change of clothes.

One wonders about having video games and not clothes to enable the children to go to school...but in any case, many churches have clothing "closets" where there are clothes free for the taking if one has need. Last I heard the one at my church was overflowing.

[BenLurkin]

Heeerrrress Daddy!

[Tax-chick]

Maybe they're using "nurse" in a general sense, rather than meaning she's an R.N. She could have been a health aide of some kind; the fact that she couldn't pay for car repairs suggests she wasn't earning an R.N.'s pay.

[Cagey]

Also how can someone be a nurse in the USA and be unemployed?

She's blaming the van that no longer works when in fact it is she who no longer works. That's okay though, we'll keep her kids in video games.

[AppyPappy]

Dang. She should have been reading that Bible instead of throwing down

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

For her part, Laitaille has been living in a controlled state of anxiety. Reading the Bible, she said, has kept doubt from consuming her the way the fire raged through her Golden Gate house.

Reading the Bible is a wonderful thing, but she should have had at least one other book available since she reached puberty. Any book. Any book at all, just as long as she held it tightly between her knees at all times.

[SittinYonder]

Also how can someone be a nurse in the USA and be unemployed?

Good point, but with 10 kids I don't think she's got time for work.

You and I may question this woman's judgment and we might be able to find places in her life where she could have made better decisions. Nevertheless, it is our responsibility - through the government, of course - to pay the cost of her bad decisions.

[I still care]

She's made a mess of her life, so she reads Psalm 23. Geez.

I do have compassion for this woman - we all have done dumb things. And I had a major house fire, where I lost everything, so I've been there.

But having 10 children without a husband? No wonder she is jobless. She sounds like she is seriously deficient in the common sense department.

Maybe she should have read some of the other parts of the bible, like "fleeing from fornication" or Proverbs. I raised my sons on Proverbs. They are the best basis for a successful life you will find.

[HamiltonJay]

She's unemployed because, at least according to the article, her transportation broke down and she did not have the funds to repair. Not because she can't find employment.

[Shalom Israel]

The article doesn't mention whether she gets child support, at least from the father of the first eight of her illegitimate children. Not that I think it makes a difference: the kids really need a father. The courts should haul his @ss back there and force him to rear the kids with Laitaille until the youngest one graduates.

(As an aside, is it "Lie-tie", or "Lay-tail"? The former sounds more French; the latter sounds more accurate.)

[thoughtomator]

It's not our responsibility to make up for her bad decisions, it's simply what the government forces us to do at gunpoint.

[linda_22003]

"Nevertheless, it is our responsibility - through the government, of course - to pay the cost of her bad decisions."

Let's all take a moment to stand up from our desks, move away from the computer, and do the "Lucky Me!" dance.

[thoughtomator]

How convenient.

[silverleaf]

"Nurse" probably refers to an LPN or nursing assistant..the kind of employee who often works at homes for the elderly. High demand but very low pay. Undoubtedly more lucrative to stay home and collect welfare while minding the young kids.

So her kids burned the house down while she was home, and it was her 13 yr old son who got everyone out. I wonder if she was even sober?

[leadpenny]

WWJP.

[BenLurkin]

BTTT

[Shalom Israel]

She's unemployed because, at least according to the article, her transportation broke down and she did not have the funds to repair. Not because she can't find employment.

Carpool? Bus? Walk? Bum a ride off a co-worker? You mean she's completely stranded? That can only mean one thing: she lives on a farm 100 miles from the city, and the nearest neighbors are five miles away--and are KKK members to boot, which explains why she's afraid to ask any of them for a lift.