The next move this lady should make is to get a tubal ligation.  Why do some things never change in Barbados?

Where is the father or fathers of Ms. Blunt’s 5 children?  I am sick and tired of women having multiple children for deadbeat men and then turning to their mother’s, the NHC, or the general public for help.  The time has come for society to leave people like Ms. Blunt to fend for themselves.  Her children should be placed in foster care and she should be left to make her way in the world on her own.  She gets no sympathy from me.

You’re unemployed, you can’t seem to follow simple rules and you have 5 children? I’m supposed to be sympathetic because you paraded the poor things in the paper?

You have 5 children, why should you be out after 8pm unless you work nights?

Why should you get a house if you can’t pay the rent?

Why should I give you a job if you can’t follow orders?

Oops!  I meant mothers, not mother’s.

Doreen Stoute, you asked, “Why do some things never change in Barbados?”  My sentiments exactly.  This business of having multiple children for deadbeat men when you are unemployed, uneducated, and homeless has got to stop.  Society simply cannot afford to keep bailing out these irresponsible people.

Ms Blunt you should be ashamed of your self. Woman where is your pride set an example to your children . 40 years old five children and still living at your mother’s place.  Since it appears as though you made those children all on your own you should be prepared to find a job and provide for them.  I guess that when the Government provides you with a house you will want them to pay the rent , and your utilities bill and the rest while you go looking for the next child.  Sick and tired of people like you who are not prepared to do anything to help yourself and always looking for handouts from the state. Have no problem with welfare for those who are unable to work but not for people like you.

So many things wrong with this ‘picture’. I am not going to judge this lady. Five children need to be supervised, especially at nights therefore a curfew of sorts imposed by the grandmother/home owner is not a bad thing.

Life is indeed a hard journey without making it unnecessarily harder on yourself. Even with an NHC home there are bills that have to be paid, and without a job this is futile.  Therefore, having a house is not the end-all of her problems. Maybe her pastor/other person can speak with the family and come to an agreement where she can be given the opportunity to stay on until she finds work.
Can someone please offer her a job?

Very very sad indeed. I hope history does not repeat itself with her children.

so since she is unemployed when NHC provides her with a home who is paying the RENT,LIGHT,WATER and FOOD for you or you want these things for free too I would love a government house myself too and I am working with 1 child and I’m still waiting and I’m in a bad situation so I guess since every1 putting themselves in the newspaper every time for a government house and within 1wk them back in the paper with a house it got me here thinking I should be doing the same and the other problem is the ones in the worst off positions would not stop become pregnant I have 1 child and working and barely making it how the hell you making it with 5 and unemployed and want us to help you when you aren’t even helping yourself I don’t mean to be harsh on you but we need to put a stop to this foolishness that is happening everyday and I do hope you get through in life cause I’m also a mother and I know all too well how it feels

The mother is right.  She should have given her that curfew many years ago.  Then maybe there would not be so many ‘fatherless’ pic’ney now.

Why are people even having kids if they can’t give them the foundation of a stable home.  And as some people have asked my question exactly, “Where are the dads”??  I can completely understand now why some women take the kids and pack them up at the father’s home and run off…... Making kids isn’t a “one man show”.  You need to point the finger at both parties.  So why am I not hearing any mentioning of the dad/dads in this story????  Why is it that the woman is always left standing holding the baby with no male presence beside her.

What she needs to be doing is contacting the father of these kids first even if it means legal action before she pursues in making her life issues into a public spectical.

These women need to keep their legs closed when it comes to men who are not father material. If he isn’t even husband material - Walk pass - STRAIGHT…....

I reading politics into everything I hearing and seeing nowadays,  as this may be an election year.I believe very large sums of money are being paid to perpetuate and agenda.The placing of this story is political opportune.We have social services to take care of these debacles.The media would be better off showing the failing of our social nets and the cracks in the system that people fall through.Or highlighting the mammoth work taking place to keep many persons from hitting rock bottom; and how they are being assisted in pulling themselves up by their breaches.
The Nation Newspaper needs to step away from this political pettiness as this article like the one with the fish “Vendor… with a bone” to pick does not worth publication.However the mindset at the Nation Publishing Company Limited is really no different from that of a “Laff it off “skit.

This woman should have been directed to get a job.
Housing and supporting her children is her personal responsibility not the public’s.
It is actually degrading-especially to her children- to highlight this in a newspaper.
If she lacks the sense or self-esteem to understand this,then others should have known better.
She is 40 so she had access to all the opportunities this country offers through its hard-working taxpayers.
What has she done but get five children and sponge off her mother?

This story doesn’t surprise me. I expected a lot of women to come out of cupboards, with woeful stories, parading the children for the public to shed tears and “hi-jack” the housing department. The woman who “occupied” a house,unlawfully I might add, used the same strategy and became a house-owner, after the story became a SAGA.  Boyfriend threw her out and she was homeless and all along she was smirking,because the sight of the children and their cuteness tugged at our hearts and before we could finished our “sighs”, it was announced she had a new home..

The stories to follow will have the same story-line, but the names will change to protect the innocent.

This story got me so heated that I just could not take the time to read the comments from the other readers.

First thing first:- Get to the QEH as soon as possible and get them tubes tied. That is damn foolishness breeding, breeding all the time especially for nuttanarians that can’t improve your standard of living.

No. 2:- C’dear if you had no where to go and ya mother take ya in, ya got to abide by ya mother rules Jacqueline. Like it or lump it. You are only begging for a lodging. 

No. 3:- The majority of mothers love their children and want the best for them. You being 40 years old and unemployed with 5 children, is giving your mother tremendous grief. She wants you to pull up your socks and do better for your children. As far as I can see she is trying to save ya from ya self so ya wouldn’t get pregnant with baby No. 6.
NO. 4:- I feel so bad for that little girl in the paper. You have to set an example for your children and right now you are not doing that.
In light of all that was said Jacqueline need to get with the program and get out there and get for herself and her children.  If ya live at Mummy ya got to abide by mummy rules.

It is as simple as that!

All the comments have expressed disgust with Blunt’s situation but I think these comments are misguided and based on jealousy. Jealousy for a woman in her prime who is fertile and obviously enjoys sex.  There are many women in Barbados who are trying to have a baby but lack the fertility to do so.
In light of the fact that the professional women won’t or can’t have children and we need children to ensure the continuity of the NIS, we should try to help this woman.  The benefits of helping her now outweigh the consequences of these children growing up to be a burden on society.

Ms Garcia
So bringing 5 children into this world when she clearly cannot even care for herself far less for 5 children “because she is fertile and enjoys sex” is a good enough reason? I feel sorry for the children and they should be placed in foster care or with their same grandmother IF she can cope with them but I somehow doubt even she can at her age. As for the rules imposed and curfew, if she had adhered to them at a young age she wouldn’t be in this mess!

@Payel Garcia

As one of several fertile women in this country I find your comments rather ignorant.

Is there some reason she could not use condoms, are STDs not a risk factor as well?

The BFPA provides contraceptives at a reduced rate for persons such as the ‘lady’ in the article. Please provide a valid point.

The fathers of these children are not “fathers”.  They are sperm donors.  As I asked earlier, why do some things never change in Barbados?  Why does she have to parade her school-age daughter in the local paper and shame her for all her friends to see?  Some of us saw our mothers and grandmothers in similar situations, but poor things, they did not have the benefit of reliable contraception.  What is this woman’s excuse?  If she wants to canoodle with bums - fine, but she doesn’t have to produce a child she cannot afford out of it.  Men don’t get pregnant, so the onus is on her to act responsibly.

@Payel Garcia u sound so silly. Since you got so much of an opinion you should go right ahead and take in the lady. Call the Nation and get her contact details. End of story.

This is when Rights gets us into trouble .First it is her right to have or not to have children so she cannot get a “tie off” without her consent .That would help her since she cant or refuse to help herself .
She may very well get the house and we the taxpayers of Barbados will foot the water bill and the light bill indirectly . Five seem to be the magic number to get “free ” housing in BIM: She cannot think for herself or refuse to it is obvious so the men will get on her and off like a ZR. This is disturbing since they all come to the Nation News to be seen . After all it has wide readership .It gets the message across to the masses .
The time she took to go or call them she should be looking for work.I know some is out there .Every little bit is a help .
This newspaper and the so called women groups around here need to sit and bring out a feature in the said to guide our women into productive (not reproductive ) and responsible lives .The social agencies ought to have a compulsory program for such persons . If many of them close their legs and use their brains we will not have to see this parade all the time .Nonsense !

Something has to awfully wrong when at age 40, your mother subjects you to an 8 o’ clock curfew. But where is she after 8.00 p.m if she is not working or studying. Seems to me like the mother has to supervise SIX of them.  Why not allow them to go to foster care or give some up for adoption. There are always people willing to give these children a chance in life. I hope her plan is not to use them as her meal ticket.