I think the doctor that let Kate bully him into implanting 6 embryos at once is the one at fault. I mean come on she had success with two before, why 6 this time. She was looking for fame. Also, she probably bullied Jon into doing it too. I've heard stories about her from colleagues in the medical profession. She used to work at Hershey and that's where she had the babies. She has always been a "Diva". Everything has to be her way or the highway. Her voice says it all in the introduction of the show. "Its a complicated life, but its OUR life". That line has always bothered me. Just the tone in her voice. I pity the kids that have to go along for the ride. Its not their lives, it the lives that SHE has chosen for all of them. You tell me what 3 year old knows ahead of time that they want to be on TV. She says she would never push them to do it if they didn't want to. Who is the parent here anyway?? She enjoys, no relishes being in the limelight and that is all the really matters to her. She used these kids for personal gain in the bottom line. Tell me what mother of 8 kids can take one child away for a weekend clear across the country. Come on, I would love to take both my kids, but these days who can. She boohoos now the she is a single mother just trying to make ends meet. Come on. Try stopping the jetsetting once and live in the real world like the rest of us struggling.

AMEN! to the comments made by Natural Mother!!!! I can't believe that this has all gone so far with them. They are both at fault. They need to keep the kids OFF tv. Both should get a real JOB and stop treating their kids like cash cows. I won't watch the show, but have seen enough snippets to know that Kate is a B!+@# and demasculinized her husband, while beautifying herself with cosmetic surgery and $300 haircuts. Of course he wants to be found attractive and "wanted" by someone and I'm sure if his wife would have done it he wouldn't have looked elsewhere. Yes, he "done wrong", but so has she. (bodyguard, anyone?) They both have used their money unwisely with spending on froo-froo things, and not investing for their future. People who are drunk with money seldom do- they just think it will never end. The kids have their future educations paid for by the state of PA.- and most things for their care were provided by community and corporations. What did they do with their $$$? J&K need to stop whining, liquidate and live a normal, non-tv life like the rest of us, putting their kids' best interest first. Maybe if it wasn't for the show and the money, they would have put forth more effort into their marriage and their family. It seems that the more "better-off" people seem to be, the more crying and bellyaching they do that life and things aren't fair- then try to cheat and loophole their way to even more greediness. It's sad for the kids, I really pray for them. J&K need to grow up, both of them- This is just crazy....

I don't like either of them for various reasons. Instead of doing something about her current situation Kate is wining about it. What I want to say to Kate is that there are millions of women who's husbands leave them and run around like a whore AND wipe out their bank accounts and you don't see them crying on the Today show about it and guess what Kate, these woman have to do it ON THEIR OWN. They don't live in multi million dollar mansions and have a "staff" and get to travel all over the world signing books and talking about crap... no these woman work 60 plus hours a week and sleep on the floor so that their children have a roof over their heads and a bed to sleep in at night. Seriously it could be worse. And Jon.... Jon, you just need to be slapped and tested for STD's. When you talk bad about the mother of your children that is when not only people loose respect for you but your children do too. When you take money out of a join account that you know goes to pay for your children's way of life then you are taking food out of their mouthes and removing that roof that is over their heads. Neither Jon nor Kate are showing an ounce of care and concern for their children. What is on their agenda... money, fame and sympathy. When the cameras stop rolling, the media and public stop caring and the money stops rolling in tell me this, with the shitastrophy that you have caused WHAT is going to happen TO YOUR CHILDREN? When they get old enough to really learn about what is going on HOW are you going to tell them that you cared so little for them. What makes you think JUST BECAUSE you birthed 8 children that you are entitled to the world and then some? People have kids all the time and some even more than you and they don't pull crap like this, they actually CARE about their children and the repercussions of their actions. If I were them I would start looking for a job, sell the house and move into something more manageable because your 15 minutes of fame has outstayed its welcome.

Jon's a scumbag for sure. He's running from his responsibility. He would would not be let into our circle that's for sure!! :) www.theguysperspective.typepad.com But Kate, not that much better really.

Are you kidding me? Does ANYONE really take Jon's side? I can not believe this... He is acting like he is an eighteen year old who has no children to think about. I can not imagine how horrible it would be for my seven year old if her father talked about me the way he has talked about Kate on TV. As for how Kate treated him during their marriage... that was how she was when they got married and he married her. She did not overnight become aggressive and OC about things. He knew how she was, they even went to highschool together. Of course she likes the fame and money. We are talking about someone who came from NOTHING. She has worked to be where she is, even if some people do not agree with me on that. She writes books and does speaking events. Yes, I agree that she wouldn't have that money if she did not have those kids, but she took what she had and made a living for them and herself. I really believe that she does want to give them things that she didn't have. Who are we to hate her for that? Unless you come from nothing too, like I did, you probably would have more trouble understanding her. The last thing that I will say is a comment to a comment I read earlier on this blog. Someone said "why doesn't she find herself a trade". If you do not know the facts, you probably should not comment. Kate is a registered nurse. She has her bachelor's degree. That is also what I do and that is not just a trade, that is a career. She's a decent mother... give her a break.

It's hard to tell who to believe, though. According to Jon and his lawyer during their visit to Larry King Live, they said that Jon was pursuing legal action to get him and his children off air and to reach a negotiation with Kate about the future of their children on the show. When Kate failed to respond to him, and TLC responded by "letting him go", he took other routes to getting what he wanted (i.e. attempting to delay the divorce, banning TLC from the property, and speak of lawsuits for TLC's binding contract that Kate and Jon both signed without representation, without permits required for a series vs. Documentary, without designations of separate trust funds for all 8 children instead of a lump sum given to "The Gosselin Family", without proper permits required by child labor laws, etc.) It's just a mess, any way you look at it. Jon with his 22 year old girlfriend, Kate parading around talk shows and saying $100,000 feeds her 8 children. It's ludicrous. And it shouldn't be publicized. I'm going through a divorce as well. Thank the good Lord its not being eaten alive and then regurgitated with a ridiculous spin for the entire country to gnaw on. Bottom line though, I think those kids have got to get off camera. Like Jon said in his LKL interview, "Kate and I will never again be husband and wife, but we will always be mom and dad." They need to settle things like mom and dad do, with the best interest of their children at heart, and surely that can't be with mom talking crap about dad on The View, and dad saying, in his FIRST interview, that he "despises" their mother. This family needs therapy, not a show.

I think they were just a poor marital match and when they realized that, it was too late. All the bad parts of one started to feed of the other, and when you pair that with the hot, hot lights of a reality show: disaster. I feel sorry for both of them, but even more so for the kids. And I wish for the kids' sakes that this whole thing would just blow over already.

How the heck did Jon and Kate become national news? Has Jon turned into a dirt bag? Of course. Could he have and should he have handled things differently? Totally! But come on. I am so sick of Kate crying on TV about how badly she's been treated when during their early show interviews, she drug Jon through the dirt, stomping on him and cutting off his manhood so that she could feel better about herself. She is a money hungry, power controlling witch who has manipulated her soon to be ex-husband and 8 children into turning her into the reality show star that she has now become. She has cried on TV about how upset she is that Jon is trying to take her lively hood away from her by taking away the show. She has made her fame and money off of her kids. Why, up to this point, didn't she go out and learn a trade in order to keep her family going? Jon stayed home for two years while she wrote a book, went on book tour and promoted the show. Couldn't she have instead gone back to school and found a real career? By the way, what's going on with the proceeds she makes off of her book. Where is that money going to? She has whined and cried about how when she had the sextuplets, they had no money but never thought she would ever end up in the exact same position again. Do you know how many donations they received from people who felt sorry for them. They have purchased a beautiful house, redesigned and redone the kitchen, gone on countless vacations and have made plenty of money off of the show. If they are in such dire straights, maybe they shouldn't have been blowing their money for the past couple of years? Maybe they need to learn to live like they're in a recession like the rest of the country. Kate did talk about how she pulled $100,000 out of the account so that her kids could eat. In what universe would 8 kids need $100,000 in order to eat? You would think that that would have lasted her, oh I don't know, at least 5+ years. By the way, the amount of money that is supposedly missing has not been confirmed, nor has it been confirmed that Jon was the one who took all of the money out of the account. It has also not been confirmed that the money that Kate has taken out of the account was only used for bills. I don't feel sorry for either one of them. The only ones I feel sorry for are the kids. Though Jon might be trying to get rid of the show due to vindictiveness, he is absolutely right. For the kids sake, the show needs to end. And Kate needs to end this crap about how the kids were crying so hard because the TLC crew couldn't hang out at their house. You don't think there is any manipulation going on by Kate to make the world feel sorry for her and her kids? Oh, please! She even said on the Today Show that Jon was still under contract but that TLC had agreed that if either parent felt that the show was effecting the kids negatively that they would be more than happy to end the series. So, what's the problem? I am so tired of these reality shows that pay for people to have kids. Let's look at 18 and counting. Has no one figured out yet that the world is already so overpopulated and that there really isn't a need for one couple to feel like they have to populate it all by themselves? I would completely support that show if most of the kids would have been adopted. There are so many kids out there who need homes- who need to be adopted. Why are we helping to support these overly selfish individuals in the first place. I'm about ready to remove TLC from my Favorites list.