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Mother of nine who claims £38,000 in benefits to receive £1,400 more after falling pregnant again
The Daily Mail ^ | April 24, 2014 | Amanda Williams

Posted on 04/25/2014 9:14:44 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

A mother-of-nine who claims £38,000 a year in handouts and demanded a bigger council house for her huge family is pregnant again - this time with twins.

Cheryl Prudham, 32, and her husband Robert, 29, are set to receive at least a further £1,400 in handouts when the baby girls arrive.

Mrs Prudham said she will 'not be made to feel guilty' for having children' as she and her husband both work part-time.

Last year the couple, from Sittingbourne, Kent - who were living in a three-bedroom council house at the time - said they were entitled to a bigger house, because they both work part-time.

Eventually the couple were able to arrange a house swap and they moved to a £200,000 property, also in Kent, the Sun reports.

But the expectant mother is still not happy with the swap - organised via Facebook with a family looking to downsize - because she had to move away from her preferred area of Sittingbourne.

She admits her huge brood were not especially planned because she and her husband do not like using contraception.

Speaking after her bid for a new house last year, she said: 'In the past I have been on contraception but I got pregnant with the coil and the pill just doesn't settle well with me.

'We don't use condoms and me and Rob have never talked about it.

'I did rely on benefits before but I am motivated to be more than a mother.'

And she admitted: 'I was surprised by the cost of our kids in the end.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: cherylprudham; childabuse; entitlements; moochers; robertprudham; ungland; welfare
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I'm all for the be fruitful and multiply stuff but I don't believe there's anything in there about ‘at your neighbor's expense’.
21 posted on 04/25/2014 9:35:08 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Not much different than us, really.


22 posted on 04/25/2014 9:35:17 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ain’t socialism grand?


23 posted on 04/25/2014 9:36:21 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: TexasCajun
Oliver Wendell Holmes may have been on to something.
24 posted on 04/25/2014 9:36:32 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (This is known as "bad luck". - Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Whatever’s going on here obviously has nothing to do with race and would affect any group of people the same way...


25 posted on 04/25/2014 9:37:19 AM PDT by varmintman
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

>She admits her huge brood were not especially planned because she and her husband do not like using contraception.

Wonderful. More welfare babies pinched off and added to the public teat. Why not get your plumbing neutered if you refuse to prevent adding more load to the overtaxed public?


26 posted on 04/25/2014 9:41:29 AM PDT by soycd
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To: Bob

Nothing wrong with big families....after all native Europeans are at risk of being outbred by Third-Worlders.

But perhaps those who wish to raise such a large brood would be better off in a more rural environment where the costs of raising children would be much lower.


27 posted on 04/25/2014 9:41:33 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TexasCajun

Shouldn’t we be happy at least the children weren’t aborted?


28 posted on 04/25/2014 9:42:27 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ungland... the only shock is it's not a bunch of goathumpers...
29 posted on 04/25/2014 9:44:41 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: TexasCajun

Well, they are a bunch of cute kids, but all ten of them are learning at an early age how to live on government handouts. Perhaps they’ll all grow up to have ten kids apiece…and on and on.


30 posted on 04/25/2014 9:47:26 AM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: dfwgator
Shouldn’t we be happy at least the children weren’t aborted?

More importantly, I'm sure the children are happy they weren't aborted.

31 posted on 04/25/2014 9:49:30 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Veto!

Perhaps they’d make a better impression if the husband wore something other than a wife-beater.


32 posted on 04/25/2014 9:53:47 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TexasCajun
They demand a bigger house, but I doubt England's taxpayers don't pay for FREE Tattoos.

The dad can afford tattoos but not a house?

33 posted on 04/25/2014 9:54:23 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Is she Mexican?.


34 posted on 04/25/2014 9:54:38 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: dfwgator
There's nothing wrong with big families... that you can afford to raise without forced taxpayer "assistance".
35 posted on 04/25/2014 9:57:31 AM PDT by Bob
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To: Bob

Yes, let’s have native families have their 1.2 children per household while Muslims breed like rabbits.


36 posted on 04/25/2014 9:59:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Bob

Do you agree to the per child tax credit that we have currently?

I agree with it to a point, and that point is where you pay $0.
No one should get back more in their income tax return than they paid in.


37 posted on 04/25/2014 10:00:55 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

My mother’s grandmother and grandfather raised 11 children at the turn of the 19th century. One died in infancy. Back in those days the women stayed home and the men worked, and there were no modern convinces. They made it. My grandma never had her own new pair of shoes until she married. Most of her clothes were hand me downs, even her wedding dress was borrowed.

Mom and grandmother could never understand this constant consumption today of consumer goods. I guess I’ve inherited it too. I’m as low maintenance, cheap date as they come. A cup of coffee and a night looking t the stars is ideal.


38 posted on 04/25/2014 10:01:24 AM PDT by Gefn (All good kitties go to the Rainbow Bridge;Holly 2/1999-12/2013)
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To: Veto!
"Perhaps they’ll all grow up to have ten kids apiece…and on and on."

Idiocracy was a pre-emptive documentary


39 posted on 04/25/2014 10:06:36 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What's with all the negativity about a large(ish) family? When I was growing up in a rural area, such families were very common. Fail away about the welfare system -- but, please don't criticize big families per se.
40 posted on 04/25/2014 10:08:38 AM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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