Jon and Kate Gosselin

 I am truly saddened that our society seems to feed on the misfortune of others.  Whether it be financial misfortune, or issues within a family, it seems as though our society has taken a view that if we don't know them personally, then it's okay to speculate and to gossip.  For some reason, we have not seen celebrities as being real human beings.  Human beings with feelings and facing the same problems you and I face each day.

Some say that since they placed themselves in the public eye, that we have a right to know these things.  What we fail to realize, is that for whatever reason, this is the profession they chose.  I don't think many of us would appreciate being following at work, or having papparrazi camped out at the doorstep of our homes, invading our privacy, and spilling all of our dirty laundry to the world.

Jon and Kate have eight children.  Count.....8!  I don't know how many of you are parents, but personally, we only have one and that in itself has proved to be challenging time and time again.  How in the world do you support 8 children?  How in the world do you find jobs that pay enough, to put enough food on the table and clothes on the backs of 8 children?  Have any of you checked the price of daycare?  Suppose Kate was to go back to work as a nurse.  It would cost every bit of her salary, and then some just for childcare.  What else were they supposed to do?  I have to admire the fact that they were willing to do whatever it took to support their family.  Which would have been better for the children and for the family?  Live off the taxpayers money on welfare?  They could have taken that route.  They didn't.  They chose to do the only thing they could do at the time to survive.  Why is that so terrible? 

The rumors about the constant fighting between John and Kate are very disturbing to me.  Once again, - they have 8 children!  Can any of you begin to imagine the constant stress of raising 8 children all around the same age?  Once again, I have one, and with just the one and trying to work, my husband and I argue, and we argue alot.  It's called "real life".  The only difference is, our real life isn't broadcast for all the world to see. 

To address the rumors about Jon and Kate's alleged affairs; first of all, I don't believe a word of it, but just for the sake of argument, let's just pretend there is some truth to it.  Once again, they have 8 children!  Where in the world do they have time, or the energy to have an affair?  And if they did find the time, - is this any different that what many of us have gone through in our relationships?  Why is it that this family is being dragged through the mud?  This is their own personal business, and we have no right at all to get involved in it. 

Any marriage, any family in their situation would have problems, don't you think?  It's called "normal".  It is not our place to judge any of them.  They deserve the same privacy and courtesy as the rest of us, to work out their problems without having the media on their doorstep.  They are human beings, and what is going on here with the media being involved is nothing short of being pure evil.

It's time we leaved this family alone to work out  any issues they may have.  There are innocent children involved, and I for one, would not want this on my conscious that I was a contributer to destroying innocent lives.