Sue Radford is pregnant....

[MadameFoner]

Just seen a post on Facebook...

this is still a parenting site and they are parents.

Yeah, nobody can say a word against the McCanns or the thread is immediately pulled. Because this is a parenting site

Allthecake They have only made this "big family" affordable because of the cash thrown at them by tv companies. I don't see how this Magical Bakery could pay for so many kids. Oh and you see what they want you to see. It's all for show.

If you monetise your children then people have every right to judge.

Summer I'm so sorry

Why don't you focus on the real problems this country has like tax evasion? In the scheme of things the Radfords haven't single handedly bled the state dry.

@Moomin8, why do you assume I don't focus on problems like tax evasion? Guess what, people can focus on more than one thing at a time.

No-one suggests the Radfords have bled the state dry. What they have done, however, is allow themselves to be used for a benefits-bashing agenda by constantly pushing the meme that they don't claim anything off the state, when blatantly they do. It is entirely legitimate to express concern about a family which actively fosters prejudice towards other families by colluding in a lie.

Crikey, with @MissWitch2310 and @Allthecake89 it certainly looks like their older children have arrived to justify the parent’s poor behaviour.

And yes - they are a drain on society even if they don’t claim benefits. They use a tremendous amount of resources that could and should be better better used. Clark’s shoes? Oh wow

All I see is a big family that are doing their best.

How? Is it really "doing their best" to keep producing baby after baby knowing that you don't have anything like enough time to spend with each of the other children?

Just doing their best?
You say that as if they'd suddenly ended up in that situation, rather than them doing it deliberately for money

Ok think what you like. Nobody had the perfect balance. They don't all live their together either do they. I'm not one of their older children. I'm a female from Nottinghamshire aged 31 with a 4 and 2 year old. I have 3 sisters and 2 had left home before I was born. My mum was never emotionally available for me and emotionally neglected me. She had time. She just didn't have that skill. It's not about numbers. Some people on here are saying I think I'm an expert. Well clearly you all have copies or their earnings and magic cameras into their house. You after all know so much about them too. Funny how you all are experts. But yes you are all correct. Something terrible is happening here. These children need removing from them as they are horrible selfish cruel irresponsible parents who can't give them what they need. Thank goodness you guys all have perfect families and your kids always come first. I bet at least half of you work and rely on other people to have your children because you can't pick them up to school or cook their tea. That's different though because you are teaching your child not to be lazy. Im going now. You are all a bunch of online bullies. Hope you feel better about yourself that you have torn two parents to shreds

Allthecake
You sound very gullible. Let’s play pretend that the children actually get decent attention and ignore the fact that these parents are addicted to babies. It’s close to or an actual mental illness ffs.

Doing your best would be looking at your 3/4/5 children and seeing that it is no longer beneficial to them to have more siblings that will reduce your ability to attend to their needs, like homework help, one to one attention, emotional support, and any specific needs each individual child has (because all children are unique and some have challenges other similar don’t) and also that it is not in their interests to become carers for small children in lieu of perusing higher education. Doing your best involves having a cut off point and investing all your energies in the children that you already have and not creating more children to further divide your attention and resources. They’re not doing their best for their children.

persuing

Blimey. Those Radfords are good at brainwashing that’s for sure. The amount of women who think they’re fantastic, who are so excited that they’re having yet another baby even though their youngest isn’t even one, how they glibly ignore their other children blah blah is very worrying indeed.

I’m not going to mention the morality of having so many children. However I find them fascinating and incredible. Her body is incredible to manage to handle so many pregnancies and it seems menopause is still far away. Her skin is really nice she doesn’t look haggard at all, maybe it’s the hormones. I think that from teen parents the fact that they own their own business and have bought a mansion and have raised all these children is quite incredible. It’s obviously far better for the future of the planet that no one else is that successfull reproductively. However as a one off family it’s ok.

What's wrong with Clarkes shoes, are you jealous, because you wouldn't be on your own, the threads full of jealousy.
It Makes me laugh I bet half of those people being nasty wouldn't like it if us who have raised our kids ourselves had a go at thse who dump in nurseries and wraparound care. We must pity those kids as the parents care too much for money to raise them.

I bet at least half of you work and rely on other people to have your children because you can't pick them up to school or cook their tea.

Wow! Just wow!

Do you know why we dont get judged? Because we don't push ourselves in to the spotlight.

It Makes me laugh I bet half of those people being nasty wouldn't like it if us who have raised our kids ourselves had a go at thse who dump in nurseries and wraparound care.

Hahaha

Makes me laugh I bet half of those people being nasty wouldn't like it if us who have raised our kids ourselves had a go at thse who dump in nurseries and wraparound care

Nope, always been a sahm thanks but there’s nothing wrong with women working and using a nursery or before and after school.

Better than neglecting them in the home due to having too many children that you can’t give them the attention they need. Basic care and attention too.

@princessraven

Exactly my point. Plenty of working parents barely have time for the one child who's in nursery 8am until 6pm. But can't touch on that subject because working is important to pay the bills. Could argue if both parents need to work full time they shouldn't have kids for others to raise. As I said further up, different types of families. nobody du has the balance, despite thinking you are all model parents. Leave them alone to raise their children. I'm sure social services etc would be involved by now if those children were in any way being neglected. Your opinions on here are cruel, rude and unkind.

How many kids have you raised yourself @Drabarni?

@Allthecake89 children are only in nursery full time for a few short years- it’s not their entire childhood.

If we’re judging I see plenty of families who have more children than they can cope with- much smaller than the radford s- plenty on the school run with 3 children who can’t control them - but accidentally over extending ourselves is just part of life.
It’s a completely different kettle of fish to have 22

Leave them alone to raise their children
If only they would just accept to be left alone. 🙄

@Drabarni
Two working parents can be good enough parents and two sahps can be crap. I am a Sahm btw.

@Drabarni so we are being nasty because we are jealous!!! Are you for real?

Why on earth would anyone be jealous of them? Me and DH chose not to have children so I am certainly not jealous of anyone with children.

Nor am I jealous that someone has likely wrecked her body in the bid for fame. She may look pretty good but no one can see the damage inside can they? There is no way there is not damage of some sort.

I have mixed opinions on this and try --but will probably fail- not to be too judgy.
Ive only got 2 dc. I loved the pregnancy and birth and it is a magical moment when you first meet a newborn. If i watch too much OBEM i feel broody and tempted to try for another but the baby part is shortlived and i think about the sleepless nights, toddler years , later tween and teenage years, and the expense of another DC and i can put myself off.
In the last programne the parents were saying that several tvs had been broken, and there were holes in the walls from the kids playing etc. No one seemed to know how it happened/who did it. My Ds was into everything when he was a toddler (...and beyond!!) and i felt like i needed eyes in the back of my head to catch whatever trouble he was causing. Given half the chance (and some partners in crime) i can imagine he might have wrecked a tv.
I admire that they seem quite laid back and relaxed but then i think the flip side to this is that there must be times when several children must be more or less left to their own devices at a pretty young age. Imagine having a newborn, a couple of toddlers/preschoolers, potty training another,and you'd physically not be able to deal with 2 primary age kids pulling a tv off a wall.
I know of 2 (comparitively) large familiesand the older ones are more or less left to their own devices by tween/teenage years because the mum is busy with the little ones. They have had to grow up and take on responsibity at a really young age.

@Allthecake89, in your post at 14.42 you said there were only the two of you and your mum was emotionally distant and now you say there were three of you, two of whom had left home before you were born. Which is it?

God I have three dc and my insides are knackered! One episiotomy and high vaginal tearing after a ventouse/forceps delivery, 2 c sections and I now have surgical adhesions, pelvic floor dysfunction and on going bladder issues. I'm only 40. How can someone have 21+ kids and not have any serious long term physical consequences? It baffles