However you wanna sugar coat it, when you force your other children to look after your minor children that is parentification of your child.
They can only have so many because their older girls are live in babysitters.
It wouldn’t surprise me if the younger girls become the live in babysitters for the older girls children etc and the vicious cycle just continues.
As for poor Tilly, I would like to Think she will be getting some sort of therapy. Or maybe even counselling?
I am the eldest of 14 and you are bang on the money. I was left from the age of 12 with 4+ kids so that my parents could 'get a break'. I had no social life, my education suffered as a result, my mother saw study leave for GCSEs and 12 week holiday for her and I ended up with by then 6 kids.
What Sue and Noel are doing is entirely selfish. None of these kids is asked would say that they love having 21 siblings and have no one on one time with their parents. Noel doesn't even know the dates of births of his kids for craps sake. The want for more kids was because they wanted them and not for any other reason.
Let me be a warning. It's taken years of therapy to overcome my childhood and a further 8 of my siblings are still going through therapy. Anyone reading this with their small army needs to take a step back and think about the damage they are doing.
I am a Katie supporter too. Until you have got to the point where you are a glorified unpaid home help, no personal space nor time - you do loose your sh!t and unfortunately it's at the siblings because invariably that's the only people around.
I just hope Sue can afford the therapy for her kids as at the end of the day, she needs to be the one paying for it.
Rant over