Immigrants, Race, and Birth Control, oh my!

When I read this the first time, all I could think was, "Animals... they are literally animals." I mean back in Mexico you gotta have a lot of kids to help work the fields and shit, but in South LA? C'mon.... This is the kind of shit I DON'T want to pay for in my taxes. A 10th child quadruplet with water on the brain? C'mon....

...And to the husband: PULL OUT!!! The article didn't hardly talk about him! C'mon!!!

From the Los Angeles Times

COLUMN ONE: 6 + 4 = 1 Tenuous Existence
An illegal immigrant couple with six children were already living in poverty. Then the quadruplets arrived. They're still in a daze.
By Sam Quinones
Times Staff Writer

July 28, 2006

With two teenage daughters at home and triplets still in diapers, Angela Magdaleno's family overflowed from a one-bedroom apartment in South Los Angeles that they strained to afford.

Diapers had to be changed 15 times a day, feedings held every three hours. One triplet, 3-year-old Alfredo Jr., needed special attention because he was born with liquid on his brain and partially paralyzed.

Even simple events like going to the store required complex orchestration.

And that was before the quadruplets arrived.

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