Octuplets' mom: No one can care for 14 kids alone

[February 11, 2009]  NEW YORK (AP) -- The mother of octuplets born in California last month says she's "not living off taxpayer money," but that she has been receiving about $490 worth of food stamps.

Nadya Suleman told NBC's "Today" in an interview broadcast Wednesday that her family receives no cash from the government and that the food stamps she's been receiving for 18 months are "not affiliated with welfare."

Suleman, a single mother who already had six children through in vitro fertilization, has been criticized for trying to have more children when she has no job and seemingly little money.

Responding to her mother's claim that she is incapable of caring for her new family, Suleman said: "What human on this planet is capable to take care of 14 independently without support from family, from friends, from church? No human is."

[Associated Press]

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