Single Mum with four kids has to be incredibly tough with this cost of living squeeze.
She’s obese. Another twelve months living off leftovers and she might live long enough not to put her children in an orphanage.
They always interview people who say this, yet are fat.
It’s supposed to enrage you while being classist and fattist. Nothing more than clickbait.
I have two children who I absolutely love, they are the best thing ever. If money was no object I’d fill the house with them. That being said money is an object; we aren’t rich but we aren’t poor either. All the same we were never going to have more than two just because the money required to feed them, have them in car seats, childcare, etc etc basically every expense that goes with having children.
So what I have to wonder is, do people like this not have these thoughts occur to them? Or do they have such thoughts but just ignore them and presume someone else will pay for them?
I know this will make me sound horrible but it is a genuine wonder. I have sympathy for the situation the lady is now in but I have to query how she ended up in it.
Not to be a dick or anything, but just don’t spend money on Christmas gifts.
If you can’t afford it, you can’t afford it.
I’m 30, I want a house, which I can’t afford despite being on a decent salary. That’s life now move on, and save for the future
This woman is very clearly overweight. It’s fine for her to say that she can’t afford food but her body betrays her words. She’s very clearly in a state of caloric surplus.
I can’t tell if you are all taking the piss or what… So you’re all like “then why did she have this many kids” and judging and stuff. Like has no one here ever split up with a partner, gone through a divorce, lost a job and had to take a worse paying one, gotten ill and needed prolonged time off work,… has no one had any bad luck at all? Do you guys really fail to grasp that poor people may not have been poor 5, 10, 15 years ago but that shit just happens?
People questioning why she has 4 kids are silly…. We have no idea what her situation is, could very well have been fine when she had a partner who is not there anymore for one reason or another.
Lol, why’s her kid getting pocket money if she can’t even afford to feed them?
Always click bait articles. Find someone with 8 kids or overweight or doesn’t work. The barometer of journalism sways to the extreme.
The number of little bigoted shites in this thread. Tory donors and billionaires thieving literally billions in public funds. But no, the poor mother not able to afford a Christmas for her children is the focus.
There’s a famous 1941 article by Dorothy Thompson called [Who goes Nazi?](https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi). Yes, all the people in this thread belittling this mother would go Nazi. Bootlickers all.
The comments here are a binfire of lack of empathy. No wonder the country’s in such a fucking state.
Fuck me have I landed on the Daily Mail comment section?
Why do they always claim they’re going without meals, when quite evidently they aren’t
Reddit will twist itself into a knot to defend absolute assholes but all that empathy vanishes the moment an overweight single mum appears.
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It’s a terrible situation. BUT. Logically there is zero chance she is just living off her kids leftovers. She looks like heavily if not morbidly obese.
Yes, junk food ~can~ be cheaper. But often times it is not.
This is either exaggerated or straight up bullshit by pure logic, no one is that large whilst feeding off scraps.
Why is she giving her kids pocket money and buying branded fizzy drinks if she can’t afford to feed herself?
Something doesn’t add up
Fuck me is it national day of being a cunt or something in the comment section.
Obese lady complaining about not being able to afford to eat? I smell selectively chosen ragebait.
I hope nobody here complaining about this woman having too many kids expects to have a government pension when they retire.
How much are we betting that she’s spending her money on other luxuries?
Here me out.
I used to work at the council just taking rent payments and sometimes I’d chat to the housing officers and they’d tell me how insanely common it was that people who were having hard times would still pay for booze, fags, mobile phones, broadband, sky/virgin, hair, nails, streaming services but not pay their rent.
Seriously what good is having internet if you have no roof over your head?
All people have to do is call their housing officer up and explain their situation and the housing officer will try and help but most people just ignore them until they have overwhelming debt and/or evicted
Yes circumstances change. When I was pregnant with my son my husband was on 100-150k per year, this was in 2019 before covid made him redundant. Now we get 1500 between us and despite taking the contraceptive pill I’m pregnant with baby number 2. Was this our plan? No. We’re we financially stable when we started having children? Yes. Would I go back to our old lifestyle and put my son in a nice private nursery with more 1 to 1 learning, and take him on more fun days out rather than squeezing in a shift here and there where I can? Absolutely. But times are awful for us.
Click bait article enrages people to click. Shit media, shit post
They should get David Attenborough to do the voice over so it’s a more impactful poverty safari.
Kids Must leave a lot of leftovers let’s call a spade and spade – she’s not starving anytime soon.
Damn! Those kids must be leaving most of their food
Stories like this always brings out the heartless. I’d love to see them try and cope in this kind of situation. It’s all so simple to judge from a position of privilege, but actually living that reality is so much more difficult than these bastards can comprehend
People in this comment section holy shit, you horrible bunch of fuckers. So many assumptions and just crap spouted by teenagers? No rational adult would think like some of you lot. Baffled.
Literal stereotype of “my life’s shit so ill whine to the papers”
Overweight, too many kids, poor financial choices and no desire to better their own life. It’s everyone else’s fault obviously…..
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Single Mum with four kids has to be incredibly tough with this cost of living squeeze.
She’s obese. Another twelve months living off leftovers and she might live long enough not to put her children in an orphanage.
They always interview people who say this, yet are fat.
It’s supposed to enrage you while being classist and fattist. Nothing more than clickbait.
I have two children who I absolutely love, they are the best thing ever. If money was no object I’d fill the house with them. That being said money is an object; we aren’t rich but we aren’t poor either. All the same we were never going to have more than two just because the money required to feed them, have them in car seats, childcare, etc etc basically every expense that goes with having children.
So what I have to wonder is, do people like this not have these thoughts occur to them? Or do they have such thoughts but just ignore them and presume someone else will pay for them?
I know this will make me sound horrible but it is a genuine wonder. I have sympathy for the situation the lady is now in but I have to query how she ended up in it.
Not to be a dick or anything, but just don’t spend money on Christmas gifts.
If you can’t afford it, you can’t afford it.
I’m 30, I want a house, which I can’t afford despite being on a decent salary. That’s life now move on, and save for the future
This woman is very clearly overweight. It’s fine for her to say that she can’t afford food but her body betrays her words. She’s very clearly in a state of caloric surplus.
I can’t tell if you are all taking the piss or what… So you’re all like “then why did she have this many kids” and judging and stuff. Like has no one here ever split up with a partner, gone through a divorce, lost a job and had to take a worse paying one, gotten ill and needed prolonged time off work,… has no one had any bad luck at all? Do you guys really fail to grasp that poor people may not have been poor 5, 10, 15 years ago but that shit just happens?
People questioning why she has 4 kids are silly…. We have no idea what her situation is, could very well have been fine when she had a partner who is not there anymore for one reason or another.
Lol, why’s her kid getting pocket money if she can’t even afford to feed them?
Always click bait articles. Find someone with 8 kids or overweight or doesn’t work. The barometer of journalism sways to the extreme.
The number of little bigoted shites in this thread. Tory donors and billionaires thieving literally billions in public funds. But no, the poor mother not able to afford a Christmas for her children is the focus.
There’s a famous 1941 article by Dorothy Thompson called [Who goes Nazi?](https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi). Yes, all the people in this thread belittling this mother would go Nazi. Bootlickers all.
The comments here are a binfire of lack of empathy. No wonder the country’s in such a fucking state.
Fuck me have I landed on the Daily Mail comment section?
Why do they always claim they’re going without meals, when quite evidently they aren’t
Reddit will twist itself into a knot to defend absolute assholes but all that empathy vanishes the moment an overweight single mum appears.
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It’s a terrible situation. BUT. Logically there is zero chance she is just living off her kids leftovers. She looks like heavily if not morbidly obese.
Yes, junk food ~can~ be cheaper. But often times it is not.
This is either exaggerated or straight up bullshit by pure logic, no one is that large whilst feeding off scraps.
Why is she giving her kids pocket money and buying branded fizzy drinks if she can’t afford to feed herself?
Something doesn’t add up
Fuck me is it national day of being a cunt or something in the comment section.
Obese lady complaining about not being able to afford to eat? I smell selectively chosen ragebait.
I hope nobody here complaining about this woman having too many kids expects to have a government pension when they retire.
How much are we betting that she’s spending her money on other luxuries?
Here me out.
I used to work at the council just taking rent payments and sometimes I’d chat to the housing officers and they’d tell me how insanely common it was that people who were having hard times would still pay for booze, fags, mobile phones, broadband, sky/virgin, hair, nails, streaming services but not pay their rent.
Seriously what good is having internet if you have no roof over your head?
All people have to do is call their housing officer up and explain their situation and the housing officer will try and help but most people just ignore them until they have overwhelming debt and/or evicted
Yes circumstances change. When I was pregnant with my son my husband was on 100-150k per year, this was in 2019 before covid made him redundant. Now we get 1500 between us and despite taking the contraceptive pill I’m pregnant with baby number 2. Was this our plan? No. We’re we financially stable when we started having children? Yes. Would I go back to our old lifestyle and put my son in a nice private nursery with more 1 to 1 learning, and take him on more fun days out rather than squeezing in a shift here and there where I can? Absolutely. But times are awful for us.
Click bait article enrages people to click. Shit media, shit post
They should get David Attenborough to do the voice over so it’s a more impactful poverty safari.
Kids Must leave a lot of leftovers let’s call a spade and spade – she’s not starving anytime soon.
Damn! Those kids must be leaving most of their food
Stories like this always brings out the heartless. I’d love to see them try and cope in this kind of situation. It’s all so simple to judge from a position of privilege, but actually living that reality is so much more difficult than these bastards can comprehend
People in this comment section holy shit, you horrible bunch of fuckers. So many assumptions and just crap spouted by teenagers? No rational adult would think like some of you lot. Baffled.
Literal stereotype of “my life’s shit so ill whine to the papers”
Overweight, too many kids, poor financial choices and no desire to better their own life. It’s everyone else’s fault obviously…..