Comments on: The Worst Mother in the World http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/ Integrating the Arts and Science Wed, 16 May 2012 15:55:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Octomom Hates Her Babies | Go Inside Magazine http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-1524 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:10:23 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-1524 [...] time. They were not, however, getting pregnant and giving birth to numerous babies as some sort of publicity stunt — rather it was because it was necessary to save the Jewish people at the time from [...]

]]> By: How Reading Creates Empathy | WordPunk http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-1244 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:11:25 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-1244 [...] we think we understand.  Learning and sharing constructs leads to literacy and thus begins the formative memes of a shared, and cogent, [...]

]]> By: Never Dog Ear a Library Book! | Boles University Blog http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-839 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:56:55 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-839 [...] the library, treat it well! Treat it like you would a child. Well, unless you are anything like the worst woman in the world — in which case, treat it like most people would treat their [...]

]]> By: The Arrogant American: Bad Parenting Alone at Sea « Urban Semiotic http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-819 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:33:40 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-819 [...] The Arrogant American: Bad Parenting Alone at Sea Posted: June 14, 2010 by David W. Boles in Humanity Tags: abandonment, ocean, parenting, rescue, sailing, sea, sunderland 0 Over the weekend, 16-year-old Abby Sunderland was plucked from the Indian Ocean by a French fishing vessel after she activated two emergency beacons indicating her ill-fated attempt to sail around the world alone as the youngest person — was over.  The caustic, and nearly fatal, irresponsibility of Abby’s parents — Laurence and Marianne Sunderland — earn them year’s award for Worst Parents Ever. [...]

]]> By: Warning Against the Wasted Life « WordPunk http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-803 Fri, 28 May 2010 14:14:20 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-803 [...] many of us have given up our lives — not for our children as we are required — but rather for a stranger or for a selfish parent requiring devotion and longing long after [...]

]]> By: David W. Boles' Urban Semiotic http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-581 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:08:36 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-581 Racial Embryo Profiling

If you were Octomom — and if you could have picked the skin color, hair texture and eye pigment for your litter of children — would you have tried to take that extra step in the genetic coding of…

]]> By: David W. Boles' Memeingful http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-580 Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:30:24 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-580 Salma Hayek Breastfeeds a Stranger

Salma Hayek is the world’s best mother.  She breastfed a starving African baby and then felt a pang of guilt worrying if she had betrayed her own baby….

]]> By: David W. Boles http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-579 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:57:56 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-579 Now the explosions begin:

The Beverly Hills doctor whose fertility treatment led to the birth of Nadya Suleman’s octuplets — and her six previous children — has one of the worst success rates of any fertility clinic in the country, according to federal records reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.
Taxpayers are already footing part of the bill for a situation he helped create. Suleman receives $490 a month in food stamps, and three of her first six children are disabled and receiving federal benefits. Moreover, Kaiser Permanente Hospital in suburban Bellflower has asked California’s health plan for the poor to cover the cost for the eight premature infants in its care, according to multiple sources familiar with the case.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6255420.html

]]> By: David W. Boles http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-578 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:07:30 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-578 I feel for the children, too, Katha. What will happen to them? Where will they go? The final eight will certainly have long-term disabilities of some sort they will need to overcome.

]]> By: Kathakali Chatterjee http://scientificaesthetic.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-577 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:34:15 +0000 http://sciaes.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-worst-mother-in-the-world/#comment-577 Actually I feel for those kids David, what kind of childhood and exposure they are going to get in their formative years?

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