Now I Wonder Where The Father Is?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2516745/I-survive-500-week-benefits-says-Birmingham-single-mother-eight.html

Do absent fathers no longer have to pay child maintenance?

[sandyRoe]

She's on benefits and knocking up hundreds in bus lane fines?

[sp1814]

Sqad

Nope...the kids all look alike.

Have a look at the baby in the second picture down. Doesn't he look like he's saying, "Mum...this is NOT going to end well..."

Ha ha ha...excellent facial expression.

[B00]

In answer to that one SP, no, it never entered her head to think of her kids getting ridiculed at school for it.

And even if it did, i'm sure the fee she no doubt got for the article squashed that maternal inkling.

[douglas9401]

".it's obvious they all have the same dad because they all look alike."

Now if I'd said something like that I'd be up before the beak.

[B00]

and hahaha at the expression on the baby's face SP!

[sp1814]

douglas9401

"Now if I'd said something like that I'd be up before the beak"

Huh...why?

What's wrong with saying that a brothers and sisters, all of whom share the same mother and father look alike???

[Zeuhl]

/She's on benefits and knocking up hundreds in bus lane fines? /

with that lot on board isn't she entitled to use the bus lane?

[sp1814]

For instance - Alec, Stephen and William Baldwin all look alike.

Chris and Liam Hemsworth look alike.

And...all the kids in this family look alike.

[Sqad]

sp......looking alike.....let me tell you a story.......

I was consulting and in came a Chinese guy who had a Chinese restaurant in the town and he thanked me for getting his daughter into hospital and operating on her so quickly. He invited me and 10 friends or colleagues to his restaurant to a free meal.
When I looked at the notes, it wasn't me, but my colleague and when i told him, he replied "Well sorry, but you all look the same."

Moral of the story.....chickens.....etc.

[mccfluff]

just because she is a single mother & on benefits, doesn't mean she's had multiple partners

The father should be paying maintenance for his kids. She shouldn't be stupid and drive in bus lanes

[Old_Geezer]

She should have thought of the consequences before overbreeding. ic's generosity Too many folk think society owes them a living rather than accepting the social safety net is there for emergencies not for abuse of the public's generosity/charity.

[Zeuhl]

Nice looking family

I'm not sure why I and other taxpayers are paying for them though

Is the father ill or disabled in some way?

[Old_Geezer]

See, this is laptop behaviour shown blatantly. One types, looks up, the typing isn't there because the cursor opted to change location mid sentnce for a laugh. Then one runs the risk of not spotting how to correct this hilarious bug in design, and occassionally crap gets through.

[ummmm]

The article doesn't say how they supported themselves prior to the split this year.

[douglas9401]

Who guv? Me guv? Never guv.

[Old_Geezer]

She should have thought of the consequences before overbreeding. Too many folk think society owes them a living rather than accepting the social safety net is there for emergencies not for abuse of the public's generosity/charity.

[douglas9401]

I'm sure she imagined that she had a money tree growing in her lady garden but now the pruners have arrived.

[jackthehat]

Nor does the article state that the absent father in *not* paying anything towards his children.....

[tamborine]

the article is about cuts in her benefit payments. Seems tax payers maintain her & family. Dad controls her breeding; she's a good girl ;)

[anotheoldgit]

B00

/// I fail to see how many dads there are is relevant to the article
anyway. ///

Make quite a bit of difference if the DWP needed to track them down. :0)