We have all heard the story of the woman who has 6 young children at home while deliverying 8 more.

“Anyone who transfers eight embryos should be arrested for malpractice,” University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan told ABC News.

“[Experts] would be astounded if a fertility specialist actually implanted eight eggs,” ABC News medical contributor Dr. Tim Johnson said. “Current guidelines, which are guidelines, not law, would suggest between one and four. … A vast majority of experts would say that [implanting eight] is bad practice.”

Studies have shown that the tendency toward prematurity and low birth weight in multiple-birth babies puts them at greater risk for a variety of complications, including respiratory problems at birth, cerebral palsy, birth defects, sensory disorders and even death. These risks increase as the number of babies in the multiple birth increases.

Fertility experts have been extremely critical of such high-risk births, which can threaten the life of the mother and lead to myriad health problems for the infants.

All that aside, what was this woman thinking?  Why do I ask that question?  This is the part that concerns me.  When the babies come home, they are expected to join their six other brothers and sisters as well as their grandparents in the family’s three-bedroom home. According to neighbors, the mother is single and in her 30s.

She is a single mother?  In this economy when everything is so damn tight, why would any single woman want 14 kids to care for?  Is there not someone who should have stopped this?  Who paid for the expensive IVF technique?  Who is gonna pay for the high health care cost of the babies?  Someone grasp this and explain it to all of us.  Please.

A California agency says it paid the mother of newborn octuplets more than $165,000 in disability payments for an on-the-job back injury. The payments made over six years to Nadya Suleman were disclosed Thursday to The Associated Press following a public records request to the Department of Mental Health. The payments were made between 2002 and 2008, during which time the single mother gave birth to most of her six other children.

“That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family,” Suleman told NBC’s “Today” show on Thursday in an interview scheduled to air next week. “I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that … I really lacked, I believe, growing up.”

Her loneliness at being an only child lead her to do this sort of thing.  There is always a justification for being c00 koo.

This is the part of the story that I really enjoyed.   Suleman’s publicist, Mike Furtney, said Thursday that Suleman was “feeling great” and looking forward to being reunited with her octuplets, who were born prematurely and are expected to remain in the hospital for several more weeks.  Does anyone see my humor here?  She has a publicist!  Sounds like the little lady was already palnning for any eventuality.  Who pays the publicist?