09-26-2008, 06:59 AM
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will always be an Alyson Hanniganite
Location: In the dust of the archives
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Originally Posted by abaya
9 children in 16 years?
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10. There was an eighteen year old (the oldest) that took care of the rest, after the mother died.
He left all but his 18-year-old daughter at Creighton University Medical Center, saying he wanted to exercise his right to the state's new safe haven law.
Psychological examinations of the parents found that the mother expressed "distorted thinking." She resisted finding a job, ignored eviction notices, didn't help her husband with the cooking and cleaning — but still wanted to have more children.
And she did.
On Jan. 2, 2007, she gave birth to a daughter. Several days later, she collapsed from a stroke, according to a 2007 article in the North High School student newspaper.
Weakened by stress, the woman died the next month at an Omaha rehabilitation facility. She was 34.
Soon after, the courts closed the social services case.
The couple's oldest daughter told the student newspaper that she took over child-care duties, which she already had shared with her mother. She fed her siblings, checked their homework and sent them to bed.
Despite her busy home life, she managed to graduate a year early in 2007 from North. It was something the girl had dreamed about doing even before her mother died, she told the school's newspaper.
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Originally Posted by abaya
What I don't understand is why the father didn't at least use condoms, if he didn't want any more children?
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That left her 10 children in the care of her 34-year-old husband, who had a history of unemployment, eviction notices and unpaid bills — and a psychologist's determination that he lacked common sense.
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Originally Posted by abaya
Very sad for the children, trying to imagine what kind of childhoods they had...  |
Don't. Instead, look to system that is so broken, that it allowed this to go on for 18 years.
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