It's like a freakin' plague.

[monkeybard]

Jon and Kate Plus 8 is bad enough.  Now TLC is premiering Table for 12.  Two sets of twins, the ad for Table for 12 says.  Two sets of twins, and then sixtuplets.  I would venture to guess that most people with only one set of twins would consider that to be plenty challenging.  Two sets?  That's pushing it, but it could happen.  But to reproduce at all after popping out four kids is nothing but selfish and irresponsible.  Stop, stop, stop putting these people on display!  Putting people like this on television implies that it is in some way acceptable that they have bred like rabbits.  It isn't.

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[kayjayuu.livejournal.com]

Gotta disagree with you on the legal issue.

Government doesn't belong in my uterus, period. Not to tell me NOT to have a baby, or to tell me I HAVE to have it.

I do agree that people think it's too easy to find money to take care of multiple births. But most multiples aren't occurring naturally (beyond twins and triplets), so they are having to make a conscious choice to have many tiny babies. Regulate that industry by giving limitations on how many implants are allowed, and that should take care of the problem.

People I know from large families took care of their own. Nobody seems to want to do that anymore. That's the problem.

[monkeybard]

I am so with you on regulation within the fertility industry! I don't know whether any of the Table for 12 births were the result of medical intervention, but I can't believe that the sextuplets were all natural. People want to get naturally knocked up over and over again, well, that's there prerogative (with which I obviously disagree), but the companies and/or doctors who are aiding people who already have multiple children to have more multiple children are sick-making.