While on large here I have agreed that it does take the p!ss that society is expected to fund someone having so many children, it does pay to realise that in the past large families were the norm and it was perfectly possible to provide for them. Small families are now are result of it wages being generally quite pitiful nowadays which forces women into the workforce rather than invites them. While I can well understand why her free ride would annoy, it's useful to remember the bigger picture. If anything she's something of a throwback to a different time, in a time that no longer compatible with it.

Whatever you or I may think of her, she does look to be trying to care for her kids and is respectful in tone. I'm sure there are much worse parents and I'd be inclined to talk about her here in the same manner I would in real life. I very much doubt you'd think it appropriate to talk to a woman this way in public, or if you would, others wouldn't, so same difference.

Edited by footythoughts (16 Dec 2022 2.51pm)