to thing that having child number 5 when living in a small 2 bed flat is unfair to all the children.

[byanymeans]

I totally understand that it is in all honesty none of my business how many kids people choose to have, as long as the parents can provide from them. However I really do find it a bit hard to get my head around how one family of 4 kids 2 adults could fit into a 2 bed flat before but last week they came home with baby number 5.

I just don't get how the parents feel this arrangement of 4 kids (oldest child is 13, some boy some girls) sharing a bed room is healthy. They must have no real play space or personal space. I just don't understand why you would want to bring another child into that?

I feel so sorry for the new couple who live below to as the noise from so many feet run around must drive them mad. I don't think that any one has lasted more the 9 months in the flat bellow for years.

I just don't understand they see nothing wrong this having still more without moving it?s not fair on any of the kids.

have you been living on the moon?

lol................no Devon.

Rubbish. You have known people who shared rooms, you just haven't spoken about it. FACT. Your granny had her own room? Your teachers? your milk man? There ain't enough rooms in Devon for your notion to be true.

You are wrong. FACT.

lol.................I mean people I know personally I know nothing about the teachers and I don't have a milk man [do they still exist?]

Personal friends and family that I know and converse with then.

still balls I reckon. Unless you're 19 and have approx 3 friends?

42 and lots of friends past and present.

Why do you find it so hard to believe?

Because I know about demographics, housing size compared with family size, and average no. of family size by social class over the last century, thats why. Not that it makes any difference, you still have no basis for telling people their children are suffering by sharing a bedroom, and are being rather insulting to them.

S/he is winding you up.

There are loads of small houses in Devon and lots of big families. Its not all posh - FACT

Sensible in having a three bedroom house and two children.

They then moved and did have a mortgage to another three bedroom house. If you cannot afford a bedroom each you cannot afford the children.......

Believe what you like I have better things to do than argue all night....lol.....and I am sure you have too.

If you came up with a fact about your life I would not argue with you as I don't know you.

"If you cannot afford a bedroom each you cannot afford the children..."

IN WHAT UNIVERSE?! We own our home and it has three very small bedrooms. We have one, DS has one, and our hopefully-to-be-conceived-in-the-next-year DC will have the other. But what if it's twins? One of the bedrooms could fit two cribs/beds easily, it would be ridiculous to move out of an area we love and leave our cozy little house (with an huge yard) so that the children could each have their own room. If you want to have a palatial house and one child rattling around in it, who cares? If you want a larger family and a smaller home, who cares? As long as they're not sleeping three to a bed or something. Do the best you can with what you have.

a huge yard, rather.

People are not given extra rooms in council housing.

So all those people must have been housed when they already had their children.

If they already had their children and already lived in adequate accomadation (because they are so sensible) why were they then rehoused by the council?

Unless Devon County Council used to have a policy of housing childless, newly wed couples in three bedroom properties?

How very forward thinking of them.

"They then moved and did have a mortgage to another three bedroom house. If you cannot afford a bedroom each you cannot afford the children.......2

So what about those who find themselves pregnant with twins, or triplets or even quads?

Councils never give extra bedrooms before you need them.

I don't think anyone wants to read a thread on my parents and how they lived in a three bedroom house from the day after they were married do they?
and the friends I made at school how their parents came to live in the houses they did.

Enough said.

I am off to read another thread on some poor helpless woman who is at her wits end because of something stupid. [and yes i do laugh]

That's what I said Bullet !

It's good thing some people have extra bedrooms...they probably need them to house all their ill-will and snootiness.

What other questions?

I do scoot through the threads and try not to read the repeated stuff.

Ask away.

Troll.

Off to find a fire extinguisher for your pants?