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Faith keeps Mom, 10 kids hopeful (Where's the daddy? A national disgrace!)
Naples Daily News ^ | 3/16/2006 | Jeremy Cox

Posted on 03/16/2006 5:36:30 AM PST by FerdieMurphy

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To: gogeo

Explain why this woman is not a fit parent? Be careful what you wish for...there are 10 kids under 18. Foster care is expensive for the taxpayer. Isn't that all you really care about?

Are you personally willing to take those children in?


121 posted on 03/16/2006 9:09:21 AM PST by TheSpottedOwl ("Life is a box of chocolates. Eat them before they eat you ".---me.)
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To: thoughtomator
Also how can someone be a nurse in the USA and be unemployed?

She probably can't work because she can't afford a babysitter or daycare. The fifteen year old might be some help. However, it probably would be negligent to leave that many kids with any one babysitter. Just like it was "negligent" to have that many kids without being in a stable marriage.

122 posted on 03/16/2006 9:10:58 AM PST by jamaly (I evacuate early and often!)
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To: Shalom Israel

It really doesn't matter to me when she had her first child.
I am offended by the tittilations you and some others here have been giving this woman.

Excuse me,but there are many women that waited until they were married to have children and then the marriage didn't work out.

One never knows how things can turn out in live and a ceremony,wedding band and marriage certificate is no guaranty for happily ever after.

It seems to me that everyone jumped on the band waggon of trashing this woman on the assumption,that she was living on welfare and not providing for her own.

I still have yet to find, where in this article it states that she has been receiving Public assistance.

Please point out that fact.

BTW,who are we to judge someone?


123 posted on 03/16/2006 9:22:20 AM PST by Mrs.Nooseman
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To: Mrs.Nooseman; Shalom Israel

The simple fact of public schooling means that she is being massively subsidized (to the tune of $100,000/year plus) by other citizens via the coercive force of government.

That qualifies every last one of us (assuming we all pay taxes) to criticize.


124 posted on 03/16/2006 9:29:57 AM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody would have cared if the UAE wanted to buy Macy's...)
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To: TheSpottedOwl
Your last two posts are nonsense. I grew up in one of those households, and had every reason to fail...but didn't. I've seen both sides of the issue.

Now...why don't you tell me your source of reference for your opinions, and we'll have a talk. I'm serious.

125 posted on 03/16/2006 9:36:40 AM PST by gogeo
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To: TheSpottedOwl
Always remember, "there but for the grace of God go I".

Worth repeating.

An excellent post, BTW.

126 posted on 03/16/2006 9:36:58 AM PST by RMDupree (HHD: Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: thoughtomator
Criticizing is okay,but titillating her as a cow and sow is demeaning.

That's not her fault,that the taxpayers are subsidizing the education of her children,is it now.


Blame the government for that.

Well, I have to go earn some money ,so that the government can pay for the education of my children and the children of others.
127 posted on 03/16/2006 9:41:51 AM PST by Mrs.Nooseman
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To: FerdieMurphy
Call it what it is...irresponsibility.If one is responsible one saves up and plans for children. She is irresponsible, plain and simple.
128 posted on 03/16/2006 9:52:54 AM PST by jmq (Islam=Religion of Peace)
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To: Mrs.Nooseman
Mrs. Nooseman. This "woman" represents the dregs of society and all that is wrong in this nation.

With the help of two johns, this 'ho gave birth to eight more potential thugs.

Too bad she didn't stay in the Bahamas!

129 posted on 03/16/2006 10:06:40 AM PST by FerdieMurphy (For English, Press One. (Tookie, you won the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. Oh, too late.))
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To: TheSpottedOwl
Technically she is married to him byway of common law.

She wasn't when she made her first baby with him. It also happens that Florida hasn't recognized common-law marriages since 1968, so technically they were not common-law married at any point in time.

Technically she is married to him byway of common law.

Technically she is not, per Florida statute section 741.211.

Maybe she's embarassed for being abandoned after all that time.

Embarrassment didn't stop her from finding at least one other man to make babies with. A person with a half a brain would say, "Gee, if my 'fiancé' would dump me after ten years or so, maybe I shouldn't be opening my knees to another baby-maker without a wedding ring?"

130 posted on 03/16/2006 10:10:38 AM PST by Shalom Israel (There's a reason cows ain't extinct.)
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To: Mrs.Nooseman
I am offended by the tittilations you and some others here have been giving this woman.

You might better look up "tittilation" before you go getting offended. I can assure you I have never given her the slightest tittilation! Since she has never even heard of me, she certainly can never have been tittilated by me.

Excuse me,but there are many women that waited until they were married to have children and then the marriage didn't work out.

We're not talking about them, we're talking about Laitaille, who made ten children with at least two men, none of whom she ever married.

It seems to me that everyone jumped on the band waggon of trashing this woman on the assumption,that she was living on welfare and not providing for her own.

Who said anything about her being on welfare?

131 posted on 03/16/2006 10:13:07 AM PST by Shalom Israel (There's a reason cows ain't extinct.)
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To: TheSpottedOwl

"How is she supposed to take the kids to daycare, then transfer for a couple of hours(I've ridden buses when my transmission died), get to your job on time, then do it again to pick up the little ones? Get real."


The point of many of the posts here, which you seem to denigrate, is that she should have considered these things before having 10 children. (Perhaps she should have gotten a clue somewhere between child 4 and child 5 that juggling childcare and work becomes increasingly difficult with the more children you have?) I lament the tragedy of the house fire, but this gal deserves no sympathy for pumping out 10 kids when she is unmarried and apparently on the edge financially. I just cannot help but believe that all sorts of public (i.e., taxpayer) assistance will be on the way. If this is her contribution to our society, it would be cheaper for us to pay for one-way tickets for her and her children back to the old country.


132 posted on 03/16/2006 10:13:22 AM PST by reelfoot
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To: TheSpottedOwl
Explain why this woman is not a fit parent?

Oh, I don't know - perhaps the fact that her (apparently unsupervised) kids could easily have been burned alive in the house after they set it on fire with candles?? That certainly sounds like child endangerment to me.

133 posted on 03/16/2006 10:14:37 AM PST by Bob
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To: Mrs.Nooseman
Criticizing is okay,but titillating her as a cow and sow is demeaning.

I don't know if cows or sows are capable of being tittilated, and I have no idea what tittilates Ms. Laitaille--so I can certainly not claim that she is tittilated in the same fashion as cows or sows.

(Hint: to "tittilate" means to "sexually arouse," or to "tickle." Nobody here is tickling Ms. Laitaille, and unless she's a Freeper, I can't see how they're arousing her either.)

134 posted on 03/16/2006 10:15:58 AM PST by Shalom Israel (There's a reason cows ain't extinct.)
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To: FerdieMurphy
If a young girl has a child out of wedlock that should be considered a mistake, albeit a stupid one. When the second one is born both should be taken from her and she should be sent to a reformatory because she is a threat to society!

This simpleton is nothing but a breed sow.

She's 34, and was in a relationship for at least 10 years to produce 8 children by the same man. Does your apparent hatred of this woman blind you to the elementary facts of this story?

135 posted on 03/16/2006 10:37:25 AM PST by TheSpottedOwl ("Life is a box of chocolates. Eat them before they eat you ".---me.)
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To: FerdieMurphy

Haven't you ever stayed in a hotel? The video games are IN the room connected to the TV.


136 posted on 03/16/2006 10:41:52 AM PST by Howlin ("It doesn't have a policy. It doesn't need to have a policy. What's the point of a Democratic policy)
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To: TheSpottedOwl

Thank you.


137 posted on 03/16/2006 10:46:09 AM PST by Howlin ("It doesn't have a policy. It doesn't need to have a policy. What's the point of a Democratic policy)
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To: Shalom Israel

What you don't know is that some of these children are virtually kidnapped from their parents. Parents who just needed a little help when the going got rough, or they dared to homeschool,etc. OTOH, I'm sure you're familiar with all the precious little babies who were in danger, and ended up dead, due to lack of diligence from these same agencies!


138 posted on 03/16/2006 10:54:56 AM PST by TheSpottedOwl ("Life is a box of chocolates. Eat them before they eat you ".---me.)
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To: I still care
Maybe she should have read some of the other parts of the bible, like "fleeing from fornication" or Proverbs. I raised my sons on Proverbs. They are the best basis for a successful life you will find.

It's all true, but the problem is, what do we do now? There's no easy solution to this mess. But it's still best that the mother and children be kept together. They need help, which is best provided privately.

139 posted on 03/16/2006 11:00:23 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: TheSpottedOwl

>How do you know that the youngest children were not fathered by her common law husband? <

Well, let's look at the article:

"One of her sons, 13-year-old Derrick St. Claire, guided the others to safety, displaying remarkable calm."

Then we have, "“I lost everything,” said Kerren Laitaille, top right, holding her 5-month-old baby, Samuel Brown, after her home burned down on Monday."


140 posted on 03/16/2006 11:01:07 AM PST by Darnright (Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.)
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