17 children removed from mother

[hauxwell]

This woman must have majore problems for the children to be taken into care. If this was the case then she should have been sterilised. She must have spent most of her life being pregnant. To go through childbirth 17 times is horrendous.

[alchresearch]

The woman has been pregnant throughout most of her adult life and has given birth each time knowing that the children would almost certainly be taken from her within hours of being born.

 

Thought to be in her late 40s, she has been unable to keep any of her children, though the reason for them being taken into care is not clear. The children were removed over a 30-year period from the mid-1980s. The situation of the mother, who has not been identified, came to light after a freedom of information request to Newcastle city council.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/14/newcastle-mother-17-children-taken-into-care-project-reduce-numbers-uk