woah, I was just watching a documentary about the Turpin family on channel 5 and the similarities between the two families are scary - an expert is talking about it was clear the mother loved having babies, and liked it when the kids were in that infant stage where they depended on her and needed her as they are totally helpless, but when they hit toddlerhood, her focus was having another baby because she was only interested in the early stages of motherhood and the kids would then be left to be raised by older siblings or raise themselves, an that she went through a stage of having a new baby every year. they also talk about how the kids were intentionally not fed enough to purposefully stunt their growth, again because the mother hated to keep them "small" for as long as possible, desperatefor the kids to remain as infants and that parents had a fascination with Disneyland, wanting to live in a Neverland where their kids never grew up - genuinely gave me chills listening to it, as he could so easily have been describing Sue!
