With families across the UK facing the nightmare of soaring food bills and crippling fuel costs, imagine how difficult life must be for Scotland’s biggest broods?
As electric and gas bills triple and their already mammoth weekly shop rockets in price, Ben and Zoe Sullivan, from Lossiemouth, Moray, who have 12 children, no longer have any expendable income. Then there’s Emma and Roy Hann from Dundee, who are raising 13 kids. They get a shock every time the fuel bill comes in and whenever they go to buy another loaf of bread and discover the price has risen again.
Scotland’s two biggest families feature in a BBC documentary series which captures the highs and lows of raising multiple children in the midst of the cost-of-living crisis. Despite all the economic challenges they face – both families, who do not rely on benefits, said they would not have it any other way, with the Sullivans admitting they would not rule out adding to their clan in the future.
