Sue Radford is pregnant....

[MadameFoner]

Just seen a post on Facebook...

He owns his own business - I don’t think they claim much in the way of benefits.

NormaBean Why would be have been prosecuted when no one else was? This sort of thing was absolutely rife back then.

Remeber the early days of the documentaries about them when Noel used to remove all the bedroom door handles at night so the kids had no choice but to stay in their rooms?

Top parenting tip.

Passthecherrycoke is right. Plenty of my 14/15 year old friends had boyfriends of 20+ in the early 00s. Nobody gave a fuck even when they got pregnant.
It was very much looked upon as a choice the girl made.

🙄🙄

Like that’s a surprise.

It’s like a 1940’s orphanage, or work house, all the kids doing their chores and the ‘parents’ just writing rosters and overseeing the operations. Poor kids.

Blimey, and here I am not even sure if I want two.

Sue Radford is pregnant.

In other news, the earth is round, bears shit in the woods, the popes a catholic and night follows day.

I hope they can make peace with it but when you’ve been having babies since your mid-teens and you can’t have any more

13 isn’t mid teens. It’s the very first teen year.

I was appalled when I found out how young she was when they had their first.
I do think it is a psychological issue and the physical toll on her must be huge. My MIL had 12 children and, although she lived to her 80s, she was old and tired for many years before that.

I've only just really come across them - how do they afford it all? I guess ads/sponsorship from vlogging but do they work 'outside of the family' at all?

When I was at school in the 90s there were 14 year olds having babies to older men. No one cared

This absolute bull shit always gets dragged up and it's simply not true. I'm the same age as Noel. None of the boys in my year were getting 13yos pregnant. One girl got pregnant at 15, by a 15yo. She was chucked out of home.

I think throwing the dice a lot in your 40s is also risking a child with serious disability. It’s a risk you don’t need to take with over 20 other kids, and possibly won’t have the capacity to care for such a child should it happen. I’m not knocking women in general who try to conceive in their 40s, but in this case I feel like it’s a bit flippant given the risks.

Tweeting, she has three times the children you have (the Waltons had seven & they were a lovely family :-))! There's no comparison between you and Sue Radford.

I don't know much about the lady, I'll have a read up on her and may gain some insight into why she wants so many children. My maternal grandmother had ten, she managed but definitely hadn't wanted so many children, had a very hard life by all accounts. My mum was the youngest by about five years, gran had nine children in fifteen years. I can't imagine it.

They own a bakery business.

When this all first started (and they had about 15) they lived in an incredibly cheap part of the country and seemed to have as economical life as is possible I guess with all those children. I’ve no doubt they probably earned fairly well locally but nothing spectacular. I think they claimed child benefit so that was obviously a fair bit a month.

Now they make money from tv/ you tube /
Products etc

Passthecherrycoke what do you mean?

I’m aware of the awful things that have been uncovered in the news in recent years regarding young children and mainly celebrity men but they’ve been investigated.

I’m aware that terrible things happened that haven’t been reported but this man is known, the facts are known. It’s really boggled my mind why nothing has come of the fact that at 18 he had sex and impregnated a 13 year old child.

He owns his own business - I don’t think they claim much in the way of benefits.

Child Benefit alone will be £200+ a week.
Working Tax Credit, I wouldn't even want to guess.

@TheFairyCaravan how the hell would you know what was happening in schools across the country ? The fact you didn’t know anyone pregnant to an older man at that age means piss all

And there is clear evidence that it was ignored, see the number of babies born to the girls abused by the Rochdale grooming gang as a well publicised example

oh my, just read more of the thread and saw how young she was... I had presumed that the 22 included several multiples

that depends on where your from TheFairyCaravan it was rife where i was from inthe early 00s.

@Moomin8 do you honestly believe that a bakery supports the parents and 21 (or whatever ridiculous number they are up to) children?

I believe the eldest 2 children also work in the bakery. It must be as successful as Greggs or Warburtons to support all of them.

They have been claiming child benefit for over 20 years now which adds up to a fortune. They obviously claim tax credits too and, in fact, did admit at one time that they did.

No bakery, unless magic, could possibly make that much money. They have had a fortune from this country

@NormaBean do you mean you expect him to just be prosecuted because it’s known it happened? No one has made a complaint, how would it be in the public interest to prosecute him?

I get what you’re saying but this ship has sailed. This is still happening today without men being appropriately punished. He’s just a distraction

Theydo t get wtc, the threshold for that without childcare is very low.

He owns his own business - I don’t think they claim much in the way of benefits.

Oh wise up fgs. Of course they do. Thousands of pounds worth of tax credits and child benefit a year.

They won’t get any benefits now. I’m sure they did before they were famous, but that was what, 10 years ago?