C4 - Aged 12 & looking after the family?

[pitstopbunny]

Is anyone else watching/watched this and what did you make of it?

[pitstopbunny]

I saw the baby lying on the sofa, near the end of thre programme, in it's 'all in one' - the colour brown sprang to mind, totally NOT hygenic! Maybe we are being to harsh ?

[Insane Wally]

http://www.people.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15105 606&method=full&siteid=55768&headline=6-kids-- ---we-re-blind-name_page.html

[TEAK36]

Insane Wally, great link! Just goes to show you should not believe everything you read in the papers. This article paints a completely different picture from the one I saw on tv last night, and at first I thought I was reading about a different family.

[kate1976]

That programme had me shouting at the tv and it really got my goat!!!

Those poor girls have a life of hell but they don't really know any different do they? The parents are scum and selfish beyond belief!! They look after the younger boys while the girls are at school, surely they could've changed a nappy, those poor boys must have been uncomfortable in their filth all day long!!

I almost threw the remote at the tv when the little boy fell and cut his lip and his mother needed prompting from the interviewer to go check him, I'm all for kids staying with their parents but these kids seriously need intervention whether they want it or not!! 8 years old and attempting suicide made me want to snatch the poor girl and adopt her!!

The older sister made chills go down my spine with her emotionless manner, my heart really went out to those kids and I'm usually cold and callous, must be softening up in my old age!!

I'm going to stop typing now because I could rant and rave about those selfish muppets all day!!

[libertie]

Glad I read the above article before I posted this - just incase I was being unfair when I called them a pair of selfish, self pitying so called parents, I'm not! What a dreadful life their children are leading...no happy carefree childhood for them, and little prospect of them growing up to be happy well adjusted adults either, considering that one of them has alredy tried to end her life! And she's being bullied not just at school but at home by her 12 year old sister who is quite unemotional about everything...does'nt like either recieving or giving little kisses or cuddles from her siblings! While I don't advocate placing them in care as they clearly love their parents, I feel that the parents should be made to accept more of the help that is available to them! Glad to see that they now have a bigger house, a family liason officer and no longer smoke indoors...not much I know, but it's a move in the right direction!

[4getmenot]

Obviously they have had social check on them and they seem to be happy that they are good parents, but they need help, the kid going through the bin was disgusting, there home only gets cleaned once a week and with all them children that would be so unclean. But I did have to laugh when the girl swang her brother round and he kicked his brother in the face, kind of a you've been framed moment