howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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The lady cannot be expected to "go to work" while looking after ten children, which is itself work.
£600 a week might not be enough, that is a fair statement, especially if it has to cover rent too.
Frankly, what is it to me? She has relinquished control of her own fertility and unleashed 10 more like her onto her community. No-one wants the kids to suffer because of a feckless Mum, but neither do I want to subsidise her self induced penury. We have four children - we work hard, we take care of them, we bring them not only into the world but also bring them up ( with varying degrees of success!!) and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. Remind me how she contributes to society, please?
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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With ten children most single blokes are going to run a mile. Those that do stick around are likely to be unemployed and working out the benefit advantages. It does say that she has a 17 year old daughter, is she working?
With that number of children (and that number of fathers) she was obviously not thinking of her children as she settled down to get pregnant again and one has to wonder if fostering could be a better option.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Bern, my grandmother had eleven children. She worked at home looking after them. Before getting married, she worked in a factory.
As a child she worked, after school.
My grandad worked on the trains to look after the children, a normal job with a normal salary. They had a decent and clean house to live in.
All the eleven children worked, ten of them from the age of 14.
My mother, the seventh child, worked while going to school from the age of eleven, on a farm.
In this present-day society of quangos, it is illegal for a child to work a few hours, but in Dover, in the olden days, my best mate at the age of 10 was up at 5.30 EVERY morning 7 days a week doing a milk-round, helping the milkman, and never came late to school.
Many of the children who came from the villages to JUNIOR school in Dover worked on farms during the holidays, others did news-paper rounds before coming to school, and were never late.
I was working at the age of ten in a restaurant on weekend-evenings washing and drying dishes.
My brother was working at the age of 14 full-time!
My sister was working part-time at the age of 14 while going to school.
We should tell the human-rights quangos to go and get a life and let chidren be able to work part-time, to gather experience and earn some extra money!
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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[on a personal note]
No relation.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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she has contributed the name "shardonnaie" to society i suppose if it had been a boy it would have been called "speshool broo"?
Did you see that there are about half a dozen Mums in the UK who have called their daughter Timotei..........?
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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That's for those, Bern who did not know they were pregnant and perhaps thought themselves constipated. The result being a shampoo?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Perhaps a note of attention was by-passed here: the ten children have each a future before them, and to find work is an essential asset in this future.
I'm not too sure the present system in our society can offer this future, so the shame should not be put on the children and their mother, but on a somewhat shameless system when it comes to 24% youth unemployment.
Isn't this the actual essence of the topic with regards to ten children in a family? In the past it worked, many children all found work.
Ten children in a stable family with a responsible set of parents - try starting from there.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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judging by the responses here looks like nobody will be sending money on to her.
i can see why she is struggling though, those tattoos do not come cheap.
Jan Higgins
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Bums and stiffs, as my father-in-law called all scroungers.
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Jan
Bern
Took me a second to get that
As we used to say upt'north ''thumbs up for Len Fairclough'' after his court case.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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our heroine made it on to the local news programme tonight.
her m.p. was not very supportive of his constituent.
some of the happy family.
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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i have to say.. that 10 kids is taking the mickey somewhat... why oh why are we tax payers subsidising her?
even if i wanted kids right now, i couldnt afford them, so have made the decision to wait for a bit longer, which according to some doctors is quite dangerous, the closer i get to 30 the less chance i have of having children..
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I agree Jenni - I don't think that people should expect the State to pay for their children through child allowance, not after say four anyway. Why should we all pay for her having 10 kids ?
Roger
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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I to watch on with some dismay and wondered, how many of her children had the same father and more to the point where were they.
