It’s hard to know what to say about this story from Britain’s Sun, “Dad of 14 Sick of Britain.” The de facto polygamy/polyamory is fascinating, of course. What’s more interesting is that this guy has no shame about it (to say the least). That likely has something to do with the rise of European-style cohabiting parenthood in Britain. But the welfare-state entitlement mentality is just as eye-popping. This is much like the case of the Belgian Regnier family, which I discussed in “Here Come the Brides.” What we’re seeing here is a kind of “naturally” growing polygamy/polyamory, detached from any religious context, or even from organized polyamory groups. Cases like this are probably always out there, but the breakdown of the social taboo against polygamy/polyamory is going to multiply them, and increase the cheekiness (which in this particular case can go no further).