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Our point and I am sure Shesus will correct me if I'm wrong, is-why IS this anywhere ?
A woman in PA is one of 27 children...27!!! Do we read about that family? No... As I mentioned earlier, a woman in NJ lost her home to a fire this week-she's mother to 19....nothing to Google about that either...
This, it would seem, is a publicity stunt by this family. The father wants to run for the senate. They will be featured on no less than two cable channels for extended periods.
The woman in PA? Father is a coal miner...The woman in NJ? She's black and some of those kids were adopted. And she's a lot more newsworthy than some agenda-seeking ultra-religious family. It's great to feature those 'feel-good' stories when they occur-this isn't really one of them. And the fact that people fall for this doesn't do much for our faith in the collective intelligence of the tv-viewing public to be handing baby gifts, etc. to a family that apparently does not need them, yet families displaced by Katrina are still struggling to get the scraps of their lives back, but get pushed out of the 'news' because some woman keeps pumping out kids.

edit: I stand corrected on one point-the woman in NJ was mom to 18, not 19.
Adoptive mom of 18 loses home to fire
Part of this story:
Her story, unfairly short: She has since 1983 taken in 18 children, all disabled in some way, physically or emotionally, sometimes both, including Crystal, now 19, a blind quadriplegic in diapers and a feeding tube who left the house for school just before faulty wiring set it ablaze. Black children, brown children, white children.

Turner, 53, an Army veteran and divorced, adopted nine; others were foster kids. Her body, wrecked in a car crash when she was a teenager, couldn't give birth. Her body betrayed her in other ways -- cervical cancer, now in remission, asthma and myasthenia gravis, a degenerative disease that leaves her looking tired beyond hope for rest.

Nine of her children -- now all teenagers -- were still living with her in the house she bought on Harrison Place in Irvington because it was so big and so cheap. So were five dogs, a frog and a rabbit.
They all got out unharmed. Except the rabbit. It died.

"We were lucky," says Turner and, of course, that's true. Three people died recently in a fire blocks way at the Irvington Motor Lodge.

But, lucky as she is, Turner and her nine children still have no home. They stay with neighbors, the Johnsons across the street, who have five children of their own.

"They've been beautiful, but we can't stay there. It's not fair to them."

So, now she must find temporary housing in a place big enough, with landlords willing enough, to accept 10 people, including Crystal, who needs a hospital bed and other specialized equipment to survive.

"Who has that kind of room?" she asks, knowing the answer. She recites the government and private agencies that have tried to find a place and failed.

There is insurance, but probably not enough to rebuild. "I guess I should have increased the coverage," she says, then blames herself for "not thinking right."

One of her kids, Rochelle, 19, says she believes it will work out. "Mama is so strong," she says. She and her twin, Michelle, were adopted by Turner 15 years ago.

Three days after the fire, Michelle returned home from Russia where she represented the United States in an international boxing competition. Turner had to tell her at the airport that everything was gone.

"But we did find one of her belts," says Rochelle. One of two amateur championship belts Michelle won. "It was burnt and wet, but you can tell what it is."

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