She didn’t need to
wasn’t forced at gunpoint. The people who have uni degrees and work bloody hard for what they have will not be the ones who agree and pity her. Shouldn’t get a get out of jail free card because she works in a pie shop bless her
I have a uni degree and worked bloody hard for all I have, but I also know how much harder it is when you come from a horrid childhood and when you have emotionally immature selfish parents who rely on you far too much and parentify you from a young age. Manipulative parents can affect you in so many ways even after you're out of their house.
I don't like Chloe and I don't agree with all the defending here, she and Sophie can be mouthy cows and I've seen some of the horrid things they've said to people. She's no better than she ought to be. But I do hate Sue for manipulating her to come home because her younger siblings who she raised needed her, and Chloe felt she had to stay home because her mother lost a baby and then kept getting pregnant which could have resulted in her dying. Parentification is no joke.
The Radford kids are an interesting case of determinism vs free will. They were raised to believe that it is normal to have endless babies you couldn't handle or afford, with an angry dad who was always down the pub and a mum who was mentally stuck at 13 and as a result was selfish and emotionally immature, they had very little money or opportunities and lived in an underprivileged area, then they were exploited for all the world to see and suddenly they had money, money that the children made but none of it was given to them, none of it was used to better their lives and get them out of council housing or send them to uni, it was used to isolate them from their peers under the belief that they are better than others, and neither parent works hard (or at all) because they have an easier way to make money.
What is the result? All the adult kids living in council housing without higher education, having children they aren't ready for, beating their girlfriends, emotionally immature and selfish, just like their upbringing. And yet some of them have broken the mold slightly and have not passed on generational trauma, whether that be by working a real respectable job, making responsible reproductive choices or using actual punctuation.
Chloe may be a mouthy chav who didn't finish uni, but she seems to prefer being a terrible makeup artist to working in childcare, so perhaps it's for the best. She may live with her in laws but she and Jake are hopefully saving to buy a house so they don't get stuck in the cycle of renting, maybe even in an area where her family aren't known as the local clowns. The bar is LOW but she is doing better than her parents and siblings, and when the only example you've been set is Sue and Noel, it's an absolute miracle if you have a job and no baby by age 18. Especially when you've raised yourself and about 20 other kids because your parents were too busy making the next one.