Nine Children, Nine Mothers, One Father: Why Isn’t He the Novem-
Dad?  Post to Twitter  The  media dubbed Nadya Suleman the
“octo-mom,” but noone calls Travis Henry  the “novem-dad.”  
The former NFL running back has fathered nine children with nine
different women in six years (see NY Times story here). He is
engaged to a tenth woman.  Henry has gone to jail for failing to
pay child support (this year) and after being arrested on
cocaine trafficking charges (last year).  Yet Henry has received
far less attention than Suleman.  When a man has an “excessive”
number of children, he is considered foolish or potent or maybe
a victim of an opportunistic (read: gold-digging) woman.  But a
woman who has an “excessive” number of children?    She must be
crazy.  In our Multiple Anxieties piece, Lolita Buckner Inniss
and I are critical of the epithet “octo-mom.” It likens Suleman
to an animal or reduces her to a metonymic body part.  In their
excellent article Eight is Enough, Naomi Cahn and Jennifer
Collins  describe