I'm a single mum of 7. AMA!

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Scared 😅

At work, or driving to work 🤣

How much Universal Credit do you receive?

How old is youngest through to eldest?
how many dads involved?
Do you plan an 8th

Why aren't you actually answering the questions?

17, 15, 13, 10, 7, 5 and 3 months.
Only 7 and 5yo see theirs, supervised for 4 hours once a month. The older ones aren't resentful as they hate him (their previous stepfather, we fled DV), but it is vile when the little ones come home with heaps of gifts. That's on my ex though...

Huh?

Oh dear

Around 4k a month (includes rent)

How many dad's are there?

Why did you have so many kids?

How do you afford to feed 8?

Why did you continue having children when you can’t support them? Why should I as a taxpayer support your children?

What's different about this time?

4

Lots of different reasons... I did always want a big family though. Probably because I have no other family.

I'm excellent at budgeting, and I don't have expensive habits or go out 😅

Wowzer. You receive more in benefits than I earn.

What are they all like personality wise? Are they similar of very different?

Do you feel you get quality time with all of them?

Do they have any good male role models?

Maybe our ideas of mess differ.

Why do you meet men so quickly, introduce them to your existing kids then have kids with them and then move on to the next man?

I realised I didn't want the man, just the baby I think 😅

No but in all seriousness, he raped me while I was pregnant, and all sorts was going on with him which made my life hell for months and I'm not risking that again. I literally don't need a man for anything

Do I?

Mess to me is clutter, dirt and stuff everywhere with no home?

I haven't asked. We are close though so

Mmm.

Well, yes you do

Which kids are to dad 1/2/3/4?

I come from a huge Irish family - one of my aunts had 9 kids.

I refuse to believe the older ones aren't being given far too much responsibility for their siblings.

It'd be very unusual if they weren't.

This is why so often the eldest daughter will leave home young, and have her own babies pretty quickly instead of leading a carefree teenage/20s life.

How do you afford swimming lessons? football etc
how do you read with them all each night/ spend time doing their homework?

I have 2 and struggle 😂 both working full time.

is washing non stop? I wash twice a day with bedding, clothes, uniform etc

how do you take them on days out - do you have a big car?