Welfare Stud

I am alternately appalled by this story, and impressed with the man's, ummmm, vigor.

Serge Régnier (as some readers may remember) is a 47-year old Belgian with three wives and thirty children. In 1986 Régnier married Christine Wuest (who is now 38). They have fifteen children, between 19 years and 11 months old. A couple of years later, Christine’s homeless sister Karine Wuest (now 35 years old) came to live with the couple. Soon she fell in love with Serge. Christine consented in her husband taking her sister as a second wife. Serge and Karine have six children, between 10 years and 10 months old.

All that time, Serge had been meeting his former girlfriend Judith De Leenheer (now 38 years old). When Judith’s marriage broke up – which was not altogether surprising since all her children were Serge’s rather than her husband’s – Serge asked his two wives whether they would mind taking her in. They did not mind. Serge and Judith have nine children, between 18 years and 10 months old. They all live together in Serge’s house in Marcinelle, a town in Wallonia, the French-speaking South of Belgium.

How can he afford this? Silly boy! He's disabled and the women are on welfare.

On one hand, I'm appalled at the cost this is passing to society, but on the other at least he has done his bit to prop up the non-Muslim population there. You could argue that his kids will pay back every penny in their 'earning years', but as the article makes clear, this area of Belgium has "several families that had been on the dole for three generations and did not have a single relative who was officially employed."