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Published: Mon, 2 Feb 2009
Description: Why would a mother of six use in vitro fertilization?
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" Okay got triplets born last week are doing better and doctors say that their breathing on their own bell. More is coming out -- to lie about their mother she's not married has six other children and got pregnant using in vitro fertilization. There are lots of questions with a story about her choices and her doctor's decisions. Joining us now doctor. You know it. I want to talk to you for a moment about the fact that. We look at the woman's psychological profile in this regard we are hearing that she wants to make anywhere between two to three million dollars. To sell her story and want to be known as a child care expert. At a time when she has six children before these babies were born under the age eight yes she is unemployed. And her mom says this with a goal of hers and she was a young girls and she was in her early teens she wanted to have as many babies as she could. What do you make of this profile."
" We know there's a lot of questions and as psychologists of course I would have a lot of questions to ask her. When we look at mental health issues -- we look at a personality disorder we want to look at the individual as what is their true motivations a lot of women want to have a lot of children. Maybe they want to have a lot of -- because of their cultural and the religious background. Or they have a need from from being very young as you state to have a large family or their grandparents want to have children. But when it when it becomes a situation where it's out of the norm are out of the ordinary those in the situation we wanted to examine. Is your perception skewed -- he truly have a need to be a loving doting parent. Or are their secondary motivations that -- feed into and narcissistic personality disorder for example. Did she really want to have a large family does she really want to have her own reality -- or did -- want to write a book or does she want to be viewed as an expert. Is it really to have children or does this whole idea of having multiple children feed into our own. -- By attention and one way to do this is to have such a large county that bad -- her own television show that sounds more like the personality disorder if it's spinning rains since she was very young so those are the questions. I would be asking the those thing -- We have to remember with a personality disorder that these people have true motivations and see those desires are very very strong. And that affects their emotional. Brain if they're not satisfied it causes them a lot of stress and anxiety it also causes stress and anxiety to the people don't love them and support them we don't want to feed into that. By supplying them with money with our tax dollars so there's a lot of concerns."
" There are a lot of concern that makes you want to tell her story to Oprah we're hearing adds Diane Sawyer but the same time so well and good that you want to have a lot of children that's wonderful. But the fact is she can't you know at this -- about outwardly at this moment we can't see how she can support them. Because she's not working and her parents say her mother particular says that you know she's been living and they've all been living together and they've been really struggling to survive."
" Yes those are very very strong issues to have a psychological assistance and also to look at her medical doctor. And also to realize that as taxpayers we are going to supplying her with medical. Assistance we are going to be supplying her with psychological intervention we are going to be paying for education I understand that of one of the six children. One of the the one of her first brood of children has artistic. Like tendencies and so we will be supporting that. Clearly with additional funding we also may be supporting her in terms of housing it's all right to support people and we want people to have families we also want to know that they have good mental health care stamina."
" Okay doctor aren't better obviously this is a story is different lots of controversy we thank you for your she writes."
" Thank you for ten months the comments on our website and our blog through as well."
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