pmsl, me too!

I have just finished watching this on catch up. Must say for me personally I could think of nothing worse than 15 Children I just would not cope. 2 was plenty. Now both left home.

We had time for them which I am not sure you would have with 15. I was adopted it did not and does not make me want to have lots of children. Past all that now anyway so if I changed my mind nature has taken care of it for me.

Oh forgot to add I used to babysit for 8 children - all full brothers and sisters and they've had another since I stopped. It was fairly easy - granted most were in bed when I went round I couldn't imagine myself in that situation, making them breakfast was a nightmare though, luckily they lived across the road from my Mum so she came over and helped.

Did`nt it say she was NOT claiming benefits??

why is it cruel, years ago families had this number of children as the norm, and they grew up well adjusted .

My mother was 1 of 9 , my father was 1 or 8... i can tell you from their own words, cruelty was not in their vocabulary

Its was a way of life, the oldest looked after the youngest, while the parents worked, they wore hand me downs, slept top to toe in beds and believe it or not, were happy loving families.



In retrospect, its something many of today's families could learn from.

i watched it.

the family that had 15, both parents were adopted and she had her first child at 14.. her oldest was 22 which means she is only 36 with 15 kids

but to be fair to them, both of the parents worked, they had their own bakery. and the dad said he worked around 80 hours a week.. so you cant really claim they are spongers or anything, because they did work.

they seemed a happy family, and all loved each other.. i wouldnt say its cruel, they all looked after each other and all spent time with each other, and its like the parents said, they will never in their life have a moment when they feel alone.

the woman who was pregnant with twins, i wasnt so sure about.. she certainly didnt work because she home schooled all her children, which i dont think is fair on the kids to be honest..

And me!

I didn't watch it tho', I was hooked on Stargazing.

I didn't watch it as one of my friends says of me, she doesn't like children she's a vegan

Now that I didn't realise I've only ever seen it once I think, now that is rather creepy!!!!!

I would never give birth to a child, I think there is so much more to life than raising children.

They would have their income topped up by working tax credits for that many children surely, and child benefit is not means tested, even families with the highest incomes in the country are still entitled to it!!

Years ago it was what was done, my Grandpa was one of 12 I believe. I however believe that children in circumstances like those shown last night and the society we are now sadly part of, they will lack the discipline that prior generations had intrinsically ingrained upon them. There is so much that they will go without as a large family, which wasn't an issue years ago, but things that their friends will have and they won't. I don't think it is a nice way to be brought up, I certainly am grateful I wasn't part of a large family!



Haha! Everyone knows how I feel about children, I'm grateful my stepchildren are well behaved!

i thought the bigger family with the bakery were ok actually, they had good values, worked hard etc and seemed all to be fine. I do question the need for that many children, and felt the fact they were both adopted seemed to play a part in how they felt about childhood. I do however think that it would be hard to give any one child individual attention and wonder how that would affect each child/ or even certain children who were perhaps more sensitive.
I find it difficult to pay individual attention to the 2 I have with a 3rd on the way !

As for the other family with the twins due, I didn't get a good feeling about them from the point of view that she seemed very controlling, the kids looked thoroughly bored by the home schooling.. and the woman was risking her health seriously by continuing to have children... I actually think she was quite selfish in it - especially as her two young ones seemed so upset by filming etc. I don't think using the old catholic don't believe in contraception is reason enough to keep having children when its posing a threat to your health..

Either way there is no way I would want that many kids, and with both mothers they seemed addicted to babies/pregnancy which I don't imagine is particularly healthy tbh.

i never watched it but 15 no Thanks,i am glad to give my younger sisters two back after babysitting,shes 3.5 years younger than me and i m nearly 28 and i,ve never had the urge to produce children.