Weekly Reading, November 9th, 2008

This weekend I read an article in the people magazine called Thirteen is Enough. Its about a family who had five children of their own and decided to add eight brothers and sisters to their already big family. Kathy and Dave Bain heard about this them and decided instead of adopting one to keep them together and adopt them all. These kids were severally abused, both sexually and verbally. With 15 people in one house, things needed for everyday become extremely costly. For example, in one week the Bain's go through 8 boxes of cinnamon toast crunch cereal, 10 gallons of milk, and 42 loads of laundry. Even when they go to McDonalds and order off the dollar menu they end up spending $40. I think the Bain's did an extremely good deed by letting these children into their house and they ended up saving their lives.