Won’t someone think of the children?
By Joe Fitzgerald
The Boston Herald

"Pundits are having a field day at the expense of Nadya Suleman, competing for the cleverest way to convey the contempt they have for her.

She’s certainly an easy target. At 33, already a single mother of six kids aged 2-7, what in the world was she thinking when she sought out fertility experts, hoping for multiple births, and what in the world were they thinking when they accommodated her, resulting in the arrival of octuplets?

It’s the stuff of endless debate, which has already begun . . .

According to the Associated Press, corporate America, sensing no potential goodwill in associating itself with their mother, has decided to withhold its traditional assistance: no diapers, no formula, no furniture, no groceries, no vouchers.

Its position seems to be, what’s the point of assisting helpless infants if you can’t take a bow for doing it?

But this is not about public relations; this is about humanity.

History is rich with examples of the potential imbued within each new life by its Creator, even those whose beginnings might have raised the eyebrows of polite society.

Leonardo da Vinci was born to an Italian peasant girl.

Frederick Douglass was born to a Maryland slave.

Single mothers gave birth to Richard Wagner, the great composer; to Jenny Lind, the great soprano; to Sarah Bernhardt, the great actress.

Single mothers gave birth to Marilyn Monroe; to Jesse Jackson; to Alexander Hamilton; the first secretary of the treasury; to William the Conqueror, king of England.

This world has been richly blessed by inconvenient babies."

And I would add, also blessed by the single mothers who raised them.

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