It is a bit of a non-story. You have 5 children before you reach 30 with no income stream except the welfare state and you will very often struggle. She admitted that by saying that the cost of living crisis has little to do with it, she struggles anyway.

I am sure we all know hard-working couples who would love another child but have made a prudent decision that they just can't afford it. So if you have made the same life-decisions as this lady, you must unfortunately expect to suffer. Sorry.

Sadly, a lifestyle choice and a sense of entitlement established by that do gooder in chief,Gordon Brown and fully supported by the disastrous Labour Party heading our way for an equally disastrous spell in Government within the next two years.

In all fairness, we don't know what this woman's background is. For all we know she may have been married and her husband died. I know the assumptions seem likely, but can bite you in the arse sometimes.

Red and Blue Army!

Whilst we're on ponces, or more so a culture of it - [Link]

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Nicholas91 I always had you marked down as one of the few more intelligent posters here but I'm afraid that I disagree with you on this occasion.

The girl wasn't complaining at all. She had obviously been asked how a single mother of five coped at Christmas which I think that she did admirably without any complaints about her lot in life at all.

I doubt whether there was any intention to elicit sympathy but the story was published as just a case study of what it's like to be poor and how she copes.

Unlike you I was full of admiration for the way she approached life without any money

I did say Midlands, I thought it was more the manner of the reporting. Why is this on the news etc? I did have the feeling of 'is this news'? It did mention charity several times and again as I have tried to articulate, I am a big believer in charity, having previously volunteered at more than one, and in my very subjective opinion/experience I'd often encounter those for whom it had been exactly designed for but every now and then somebody who you'd think 'well you've only yourself to blame here'.

I also conceded that it may just me being 'angry' at the world, or something of that ilk. But if somebody decides to have 5 kids by the age of 30 and feels they are newsworthy in the reporting of their struggles to the world I find it a very bizarre paradigm indeed. Did she not know this would happen? If so did she plan for it? If not why? Did she consider the quality of life of those being brought into the world etc. etc.

I am not entirely condemning her, and am certainly not suggesting for one second I have any say or control over the choices of others, but this is something I do frown upon and see it as detrimental to society. I don't think it's a matter of intelligence but it does grate on me a bit so again, very subjective. I would just suggest it selfish in many ways at the very least to architect your life as such and once more, bizarre to report on it.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!