20 kids and counting?

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Anyone else watch - I was enthralled. What an amazing family - how good does she look for 42 with 20 kids?!!!

yep - very lovely family

so much love

I don’t think we watched the same show...

It was bizarre how they had Sue saying how amazing Chloe is at looking after all the children and then they were running contradictory video alongside her commentary of Chloe really struggling to look after so many children I'm sure they're all doing their best but they are delusional if they think all their children get a good level of attention. I was getting twitchy about all the endless possibilities of things going wrong whilst they were on holiday - lost children , watching them all in the pool etc surely it's sheer luck there have been no accidents thus far ??!!

Why was it all down to Chloe though? Surely there were enough older siblings to have some sort of team structure rather than one person trying to see to the lot of them.

Actually I wondered bout that on the holiday. I think I would have had everyone organized in teams of 4 with each team having an adult sibling, a younger teenager, a junior and an infant. Parents to be in charge of youngest babies.

Erm.....

It's hardly 'lovely' to knock up a 13 year old, produce scores of babies with her then as they get older lose interest, ignore their emotional needs and wants and feelings, and start all over again with a new baby.

What's lovely about it?

I see there is another 'big family' reality on channel 5 - Big family values : 'more kids than cash'
Personally (except for the sake of the planet) I do not care how many children a family has if they can afford them - BUT I do not find it seems a bit like jumping on the bandwagon.

that should read - 'I do find it seems like jumping on the bandwagon'

there is nothing 'lovely' about the Radfords, he seems to have knocked up a 13 year old and continued to do so ever since.
She would appear to have a very low IQ, not that that makes her a bad person, but easily manipulated. and knocked up.
And I don't believe a word of that 'we don't claim any benefits' bollocks of course they do, CB and CTC. They would be really idiotic not to.

they'd been best friends since she was seven and they were both adopted...

so what my mother was adopted but it didn't make her want to squeeze out endless children and put locks on their doors.

I think she came across much better in this programm, and I wish I looked as good as she does!

So when she was 13 Noel was 18 how did he avoid jail?

I didn’t watch it because I feel that it is absolutely obscene to have that many children in the times we live (environmental factors, nhs struggling, not enough houses/jobs) - I think they must both need serious psychological help. The worst part is those poor kids. No matter how ‘good’ the parents are (and I’m not suggesting they are bad people just hugely damaged), the children’s emotional needs must be neglected because there are simply not enough hours in the day. I have a friend who was one of eight, he hated it, none stop noise, no-one had time for you.
In addition, why should the older kids be parenting the young ones? I didn’t want to parent aged 15yrs so I didn’t have kids then, they don’t get a choice. The whole thing makes me really sad and quite angry.

It wasn't only the parents reflecting on how well Chloe would be doing at home and the concurrent contradictory film. There was similar footage when the parents were talking about how the kids had enough space and the kids moaning about how they could never be alone.

I am fascinated by them, but don't believe for one second that everyone is happy. It seems that as soon as the children get old enough for school Sue loses interest, and just hankers after that next new baby.

And eurgh at a 17-year-old impregnating a 13-year-old. I think he'd be prosecuted nowadays.