howell runs this "home" really a group of houses with her business partner and managing director, peter leon mmassyllage? >> peter leon mmassy: yes. i am the legal guardian. india and i, we are, i mean, two legal guardians, so she is mom, and i'm dad. >> whitaker: they call you mama? >> howell: they call me mama, and then after they've watched enough disney movies, they start calling me mom, ( laughs ). >> whitaker: had you wanted to be a mom, have your own kids? >> howell: believe it or not, i don't think i was issued with the biological clock. as all of my friends became more frantic and started to marry people they would later divorce because they just wanted to have kids, i couldn't understand that drive. and here i am with more children than i can count. and i can't imagine any other way. >> whitaker: these are all your kids? >> howell: these are all my kids. >> whitaker: so what do the kids get here? >> mmassy: i can ask you the same thing, i mean about your home. what do your kids get? so it's everything. ( laughs ) when the kids come here it's-- this is home. >> howell: you got to do a bett