Mom of 13 on assistance will keep trying till she has multiples (England)
By STAFF REPORTER
Published: 22 Nov 2009
A MUM-OF-13 who costs taxpayers £50,000 a YEAR has said she won't stop having kids until she gives birth to twins.
Baby machine Sara Foss, 39, is due to give birth to her 14TH child in April but will try to get pregnant again as soon as possible to realise her dream.
The brazen mum said today: "All I've ever wanted is twins or triplets. It's my biggest wish, and I'm going to keep trying until I do it.
"It would be fantastic. In fact, I won't stop trying until I've done it. I love having babies - it's the most wonderful thing in the world."
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Sara was 16 when she had her first baby, Patrick, in 1986 - but, traumatised by giving birth, she vowed not to have any more children.
It was a decade before she changed her mind and had a second son, Stephen - and she has almost averaged a birth a YEAR ever since.
She said: "I got over my fear of labour and just started having kids. They're all brilliant. They don't give me any bother. They're fantastic."
Her mammoth brood now comprises Patrick, 23, Stephen, 13, Malachai, 12, Peppermint, 11, Echo, 10, Eli, nine, Rogue, eight, Frodo, seven, Morpheus, five, Artemis, four, Blackbird, three, Baudelaire, two, and nine-month-old Voorhees.
All bar Patrick share a three-bedroom council house with their mother and father, Sara's long-term partner Stephen Smith, 40.
Even though Stephen works as a canal boat builder, the couple receive £4,200 in tax credits and family allowance every month.
Yet Sara, who has just run up a £5,000 bill buying her children's Christmas gifts at Toys R Us, claims they have to watch every penny.
She insisted: "I had been saving up all year so that we would have enough money to get all the presents. It was really hard work.
"We were in the shop for hours. Stephen had to do several trips home to take back what we had bought. I had blisters afterwards."
Each week the family forks out around £600 on groceries - including 32 loaves of bread, 75lb of potatoes and 126 pints of milk.
They also buy 36 rolls of toilet paper, three boxes of washing powder and eight boxes of cereal during their regular supermarket shop.
The annual school uniform bill is £2,000, and their holiday at Butlin's costs even more - mainly because they have to hire a minibus.
Sara, of Derby, begins her chores at 4am every morning and keeps the house spotlessly clean to avoid being tagged a layabout scrounger.
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She said: "If people saw us living in a pigsty they would say that we were a scrounging, low-life family who begged from the State.
"They would say I was a slapper for having so many children and that I couldn't even be bothered to keep the house looking nice.
"And that's so not true. Even when I'm straight I can't put my feet up. I've been known to take down curtains at midnight and wash them."
She added: "We have a lot of bunkbeds and cots. All the furniture in the bedrooms is on wheels so that we can move it at bedtime.
"Baudelaire sleeps in a travel cot, and a couple of the lads use an airbed. It's a squash and a squeeze, but it's cosy. It's home."
Now 20 weeks' pregnant with baby number 14, Sara is preparing to welcome the clan's latest arrival - and already planning for more.
She said: "I wanted two - that's the disappointing part of this pregnancy. But there's always next time. I'm going to keep trying, that's for sure."
I really don't know what to say here other than the fact this woman makes me sick. I know there are ppl like this here in the US too. I don't get any help and can't afford christmas for my kids let alone a tree and here this crazy woman can spend 5,000 punds which is closer to 7,000 on christmas.
I'm not against people recieving help if they need it but shameless people like this woman should be stopped.
ticks me off to no end... so many things can be said but ill bite my tounge
Mom to our beautiful baby girl Kylee... 9-25-09
This just angers me to NO end! Doesn't she realize that trauma for a higher order multiple birth! My girls were 9 weeks premature and all together their hospital bills were over a million dollars! Luckily I have insurance, but I still owed 38,000 after all was said and done. It is insane to WANT multiples and to deny they children you have the time they need to keep trying is completely ridiculous!
LOL!
I love how you can tell what movies she watched as she named her kids.
Seriously though, this woman is a perfect candidate for mandatory sterilization. If you can't support the kids you have without any regular aid, you have no business having more!
I am a Canadian,breastfeeding (it IS best, there is nothing even close to that nutrition and bond), co sleeping, extended rear facing (if you don't rear face to the maximum of your seat, you're NOT doing all you can to protect your child), baby wearing, Non spanking (I want my kids to respect me, not fear me) ANTI- CIO, homemade baby food making, cloth diapering, organic (chemical free household!) recycling mama to TWO! My husband is my equal and best friend, not my master and I believe basic health care should be a human RIGHT, not a privilege.
Those are child tax credits that is not the same as being on assistance. They also have working tax credits over there as well. It is part of the redistribution of wealth.
so what's going to happen to the other kids IF she finally ever has twins or triplets? will she just play favorites because that is what she has wanted all along and has been trying for? so sad for these children. although i have to say, she's doing more for her family than some that i can think of.
MSNBC kicks off racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic Buchanan - About damn time
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- angelachristine
on Nov. 23, 2009 at 12:41 PM