I didn't see anything about that in the story. Do you have access to some facts not in evidence in the story?
Well I’d have to go with ‘deduction’ on this one. Let’s see what we got here...
1. UK’s a hard core welfare state.
2. They got 13 kids, 14th on the way.
3. It’s a single income family.
4. Main breadwinner in the family is a trucker.
5. In US, a *far* cheaper and more affordable place to live, having 13 kids, 14th on the way, and existing on 50k annual salary of a truck driver would be VERY difficult without some kind of state support. Unless they all eat spagetti and beans every day.
In UK - impossible. Well let’s just say that the odds are some type of government ‘program’ is involved in keeping everyone fed and clothed here.