Sue Radford is pregnant....

[MadameFoner]

Just seen a post on Facebook...

Any children they have are simply a commodity.
They make money by having another. Sue gets to play with her new doll. Everyone’s a winner

No I agree it used to be 🤷🏻‍♀️ when I was younger, at 14/15 we were hanging round with 17/19 year old lads, my friend got pregnant at (just) 15 to a 19 year old, she left school (4th year), moved in with him, no one acted on any red flags at all. Her mum had had her as a teen as well, had 5 other kids, washed her hands of her. The lad was a minor drug dealer. It was absolutely horrific looking back.

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.

A teeny tiny proportion maybe.

Is it not dangerous for her to have put her body through so many pregnancies?

This family bakery must be rivalling Greggs for turnover to support all those kids

TheFairyCaravan, when I was in secondary school (late 90s/early 00s), it was "cool" for girls to have an older boyfriend at 14/15, and by the time you were 16/17, it was cool to have a younger gf (if you were male).
Most of the relationships were more the 14/15 year olds dating sixth formers aged 16-18. It was considered fairly normal, at least in my school.

It's irresponsible and dangerous.
You'd think she'd start putting her current children and her health first at some point. Clearly not.

I see no way anyone can judge them.
They pay their way. Their kids seem happy and they seem like a loving family. I don't get the issue ?

My dysfunctional shit parents had 2 and I'm the only one who survived. I'd rather have been one of 22 happy kids with happy parents than one of two that weren't. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Small middle ground between two unhappy children and twenty two.

They’re horrendous. She was 13 when he first impregnated her. He was 18. They can’t give their children the proper attention and time they need. The older ones basically raise the toddlers while she coos over the newborn. Once the newborn is over a few months old she’s already planning the next one. I wish her a safe and healthy pregnancy because the risks to her health must now be astronomical.

Of course they still get benefits. How would they afford to live otherwise?

Even without the benefits what about how much they have cost the NHS for all those births or for other medical matters. How much have they cost the education system for schooling? How much dental costs?

They are a disgrace. A completely selfish and moronic couple

feel sorry for the older kids tbh

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.

I'm afraid I agree 😢 the older kids are expected to parent the younger kids which is not on.

They won’t get benefits. Isn’t it obvious they earn too much now to claim anything?

But of course they take a huge amount of resource from the NHs/ local authority for all the things you menation

She could probably have another 2 or 3 children. If she’s only in her early forties . . .

Does it matter?

Of course they still get benefits. How would they afford to live otherwise?

That's not how it works. You get top ups, but not if you're earning more than £40k a year. And Child benefit was stopped for households earning more than £40k in 2010 when the coalition got in.

They'd already got 15 kids on the first TV show. Even if they somehow support themselves now through the bakery and freebies, does anybody really believe they were fully financing their own lifestyle for all the years of having loads of kids before they were famous?

Her fertile years must nearly be over

No, differentcity I believe they’ve always said they’ve claimed CB until the earning cap was brought in - what, 10 or so years ago?

I think shes addicted to it got to be no normal personwould want that many

and having the older kids helping is not their job its like a bloody workhouse

I've had a read up about her, never saw the television programme about the family.

Sue was fourteen when she had her first child and Noel was eighteen. The law doesn't usually prosecute if there is less than five years between the couple, especially if their parents are not unhappy with the relationship. Twenty five years ago and more it wasn't unusual for girls to go out with boys a few years older (of course most didn't have babies, they waited for that), it's frowned upon now.

It seems as though they are a happy couple and the only state benefit they claim is child allowance.

I still can't quite 'get' why they want so many children. They have two grandchildren as well.

She could probably have another 2 or 3 children. If she’s only in her early forties . . .

She could end up having 4 or 5, the risk of multiples is much higher after 40. Although so is the risk of complications, and the thought of something happening when she has 20+ other children should be a good enough reason to stop.

What do the older children "do"? I mean, do they all live at home, do they have careers, do/did they go to university? I guess I am just curious as to whether they are building their own lives.

I bet they do still get benefits. I bet they make sure the bakery doesn't make over whatever the limit is for benefits.

Also that bakery is having to pay 4 wages - mum, dad, the older girl and 1 of the others.