If only Theresa Winters and her partner Toney Housden had put as much energy into finding work and being productive members of society I doubt they would be in the position they find themselves today. Theresa and Toney certainly have been productive for the past fourteen years but only in terms of breeding, not in terms of earning a living.

Theresa, 37, has been pregnant just about all her adult life, she has produced 14 children and all 14 of those children have been taken from her and placed in care. Her eldest were adopted. The babies were removed out of concerns for their welfare and fears of neglect and abuse. Just looking at them brings about an immediate assumption of unfit parents – neither is an oil painting to look at but that alone should not disqualify one from keeping their own child, she might be as gentle as a lamb – but certainly not as bright as one unfortunately. I feel this woman is her own worst enemy; fourteen years of defiantly falling pregnant despite being warned each child would be taken away from her when probably the best thing she could have done was get up off her back and onto her feet – find a job, earn some money, move into a decent home and clean up her act. This couple, unmarried of course, rake in almost £1,200 a month in benefits and live in a one-bedroom council flat in a rather bleak estate. Not exactly upwardly mobile are they…? what kind of future do they offer any child they have…?

To date four of Theresa’s children have been born with disabilities and one baby died at 18 months of age with a neurological disorder – Theresa defied warnings and smoked heavily throughout each pregnancy. And yet she claims to be responsible enough to care for a baby. Probably the most sensible decision she has made was to have a contraceptive implant inserted rendering her infertile for the next three years following her recent baby being removed soon after the birth. She now plans to try and contact her elder children and ‘tell them the truth’ about their origins. Those children will no doubt be coping far better and very probably with great futures ahead of them – they managed to be rescued from the council-estate-welfare-benefits cycle, if only more children were that lucky.

Theresa and Toney; I suggest you get off your lazy backsides and start paying back into society what you both have leeched for so long. Nobody owes you a living – get a job and stop scrounging off our taxes. I wish all your children successful futures away from the feckless lifestyle you both lead – and I wish you, Theresa, a very early menopause.