To feel a little sorry for the 7 children benefits Mum.

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Is just seems like another bit of benefit bashing to me.

I know she shouldn't have had children she couldn't afford, but what hope of improving her lot???

usual, it is, am not reading much of it as I can imagine.

Yes, it's an awful drain on the taxpayer to fund them; take the children into care. It'll be much cheaper at £2,500 ish per week. Per child. Hang on.

How about sending them to Eton?

i cant imagine thinking children should be moved into a smaller house and lose their own bedrooms.

What kind of mentality is that?

Ah..one which just cares about money

You know what I don't care how much money she gets a month.

And neither did you, until the Tories started their let's bash the benefit scroungers campaign.

Flogging - actually, she's more likely to enter a consecutive abusive relationship.

I didn't say this was the case, I said in my workplace, this woman's situation would have raised a red flag to myself and my colleagues.

I'd rather look at all possibilities before condemning someone as a scrounger.

Again, I said a possibility Ashoe - do you know her intimately to say its not?

BaconKetchup, if it's not her situation then no, it won't help. But if it was, it could have been a lifeline. There are many women it could help.

Also, better training for teachers to spot abusive or neglectful parents, and more resources to change that. After all, a lot of these problems begin in childhood.

Of course, she should never have had the 6 bed in the first place. That is rather greedy don't you think? Knowing someone else would be funding it.

You know plenty of people who have bought houses and circumstances have changed and have had to move to smaller ones with children sharing again. Not sure that anyone died through it though. Far more imortant to feed the child, than marvel at the fact he/she has his/her own room

I read this on another news site earlier in the week.

The phrase that leapt out at me was 'blah blah on-off boyfriend, father of the youngest child' and I immediately though, "yeah, bet it's on on a Friday night when they both fancy a shag and off the rest of the time so she can maximise her state income". Unfortunately there are people like this, who know how to play the system, they are in effect together but choose to live apart. Don't say they don't exist, my aunts daughter managed this for years, 4 well spaced children, all had the same father, the parents never actually cohabited for anything more than 2 nights a week. I know they exist.

But now there isn't the money in the state system to continue to subsidise this lifestyle.

You want something? earn the money and pay for it - there are lots of people who have had to stop at one or two children, who would have dearly loved more but knew they couldn't afford to.

The welfare state was designed to be a safety blanket for the less fortunate not a lifestyle choice for the feckless and bone idle.

"People are just sick and tired of funding a lifestyle that they themselves can only dream of."

What a coincidence! The government feel exactly that way too!

Spooky that everyone's come to their own conclusions at the same time as a government campaign demonising those on benefits. Sorry, skivers.

Let's blame DM readers, let's blame lack of contraception, let's blame the tories and let's try and think of every reason under the sun why this woman and her teenage children don't work. It's a mindset that needs to be changed. Hard working people are sick to the back teeth of it.

usualsuspect why do you not care what the government spends its money on?

I also don't read the DM. I read the guardian & the telegraph to try and get some balance.

I'm happy for the government to spend money on children.

"People are just sick and tired of funding a lifestyle that they themselves can only dream of."

i dont dream of having no job and bringing up 7 kids on 2k a month on my own

I'm hardworking and so is my DP.

Don't you assume you speak for everyone who breaks their back to provide for their families thanks.

yes..we also work hard and don't go around being jealous and resentful of others for what they are given!

"there are lots of people who have had to stop at one or two children, who would have dearly loved more but knew they couldn't afford to."

You see, this always confuses me. Why do these folks not go on benefits themselves, and have as many kids as they like, since it's such a great lifestyle?

"I also don't read the DM. I read the guardian & the telegraph to try and get some balance."

I find all the balance I need in the DM.

As you were

Like we've been saying again and again Fanjo, what's to be jealous of?

i read the guardian

it is not the tories that has made me realise that changes have to be made. there are many reasons but having met many people who feel so entitled and lack responsibility was a real shock to me

We also work hard, and are very resentful of others and what they are given when it is a lifestyle choice.

You see, this always confuses me. Why do these folks not go on benefits themselves, and have as many kids as they like, since it's such a great lifestyle?

because you cannot just resign your job & claim
because they have a sense of personal responsibility!

Boulevard - don't, you'll have them all thinking

And because we want to set an example for our children.

claig is your post serious?