[Osem]

As the very actively involved full time father of 2 children, I don't doubt the stresses involved with trying to bring up 4 alone but at what point do the interests of the children have to supercede any pity or sympathy we may have for the mother in this case? Nobody really forces anyone to become pregnant once, let alone 4 times, and surely, as adults having presumably made that choice, we must take responsibility for our actions or accept that the state has to intervene when we can't fulfil our obligations to our children. I don't doubt that there are a great many people, who through no fault of their own, find themselves unable to cope and consequently fail their children in some form or other but I also feel there are rather too many parents out there who didn't much consider coping and the realities of parenthood before they chose to have their children. Given all the information readily available to people these days I'm not sure much more can be done about this latter group and sadly therefore, cases such as this will always happen.