Twelve kids is not enough for American mom Veronica Merritt who intends having many more offspring
She was just 14 and in high school when she had her first child in 1999, with her then-boyfriend, who she married three years later.Soon after she met her second husband with whom she had 10 children - nine of them were consecutive pregnancies. Veronica has been separated from her husband since 2021, she says.
Now the single mom is a parent to Victoria , Andrew , Adam , Mara , Dash , Darla , Marvelous , Martalya , Amelia , Delilah , Donovan and Modi . Having 12 children is far from cheap, says Veronica, who told the New York Post she spends about $2 500 on groceries each month and $4 000 on clothing each year, from thrift stores and bargain shopping.To cut costs, Veronica home-schools her children.
“It’s about $25 000 for a child to go to public school every year. It’s actually cheaper [for society] if I keep mine home."The family lives in a nine-bedroom home that Veronica bought at an auction"at a reasonable price", and they get around in an old bus which comfortably accommodates all of them.
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