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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.”
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.
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.”
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What are your views on this story? I think they beggar belief. :x
I think, she should be stopped from having more..
you’d lose your arse
But – If, there’s Benefits involved (don’t you think there should be a limit?) Especially in this day and age where we’re in crisis. Fair enough, one, two, or three kids maximum..
EVEN if there is a family where both adults work, claim NO benefits, that’s way too many children unless you have the means, the space etc to support the kids.wtf are you talking about now
they’ll still only get a set amount per child (probably tax credits) the handouts aren’t making her rich, however she does need her bumps felt
I’m not going to deny, that I claimed JSA (Income Based), for my partner and myself (When we were together) so yes, I was on benefits too, but I wouldn’t take the p i s s and go have more kids, totalling to the amount that she has had. She’s doing this until she has twins, so basically she’s saying, she’ll keep on going despite the fact that she could have at least ten more kids and even then, who’s to say she’ll ever have twins?..
I know someone who had the same opinion. Had three daughters, weren’t going to give up until she had a son. That Happened.. Not so long ago, she gave birth to yet another baby. Further down the line, I would love to have another child, but not until I know I am financially comfortable enough to be able to do it.I stopped after twins :lol:
I stopped after 2.
Fair contribution to society I think.
Maintaining my sanity & a fair standard of living more important than mega handouts from the government. :)
I think as PB might say, this has been maybe a little whipped up by the ‘Sun’ newspaper.
Ok, while it may be a little irresponsible to have that many kids, it also says that the father of these children does work, which in itself is more than can be said for some. It says that the benefits they receive are working family tax credits and family allowance, which actually, every working family with children receive, so if they’re the only benefits they are receiving, then they’re not receiving anything they’re not entitled to are they.
It doesn’t say anything about them receiving any other benefits so it’s another one of those I think where theres more to it than first thought.
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