CBBC Dumping Ground

[HappyOrchid]

AIBU to expect that a TV programme on a Saturday afternoon on a childrens channel shouldn't have an episode without a warning at the beginning debating the rights and wrongs of gay fostering / adoption.

Watching last w/e with DD who is 8 I felt that it was completely the wrong vehicle for this issue. DD is aware that there are same sex couples and that it's fine. The whole episode concerned one of the characters being fostered by a gay couple. One of the other characters objected strongly and was vilified to the point of being bullied by everyone else in the programme. They were not told off for their behaviour, because their view was correct.

When I wasa kid this would have been an adult drama or discussion programme not on the bloody BBC childrens channel at 3pm.

Care homes don't occur anywhere else in nature. Surely the whole premise of the program is unnatural.

Why does this bother you so much that younwent hunting for a five year old thread to post on? Were you trying to start an argument?

Why the fuck would anyone resurrect a 5 year old zombie thread to say “I agree that you should be allowed to spout homophobic bullshit without getting called out on it”?! Ffs!

Spoiling for a fight, I'd imagine.

@HappyOrchid

So kids with gay parents just shouldn't be represented anywhere?

I am extremely surprised that parents have not picked up the exact nature of the Programme on CBBC called the dumping ground. This is suppose to depict a Care Home/foster home. Where children that are not wanted or parents can not cope with are sent. These children have had terrible LIFES and mostly mistreated in life and CBBC is showing them having a wonderful and relaxing life. Really !!!!

This programme gives the child watching the wrong idea of Care / Foster Homes. These are children (no fault of their's) dumped to fend for themselves. In this cruel World. But no in the Dumping ground, they have a wonderful life.

My daughter, who is 11 years old, thinks it is a great place to have a holiday. She does not want to go to New York or Dubai. It's almost laughable. But th n when I looked at it seriously as a parent and realised that the image this programme gives to young children is totally false. Children are learning how wonderful these places are. Is this what you would like your children to think. Then I really feel sorry for you. I would like my daughter to realise that there are children not so fortunate as she is and that she should help these Charities, help these Children have a better life. She must think of others that are not as fortunate as she is.

@Opinionman, is that like a mansplaining superhero? Poor childrens having a fake good lives on their not real show. Maybe you should 'dump' your daughter to 'fend for herself' in one of these places. It's the only way she'll learn.

Opinionman What are you on about? It’s a kids show hun, they’re hardly going to show the reality of the care system are they

YABU and bigoted. You obviously DO have an issue with gayfostering/adoption or you’d have no issue with your children seeing it normalised on tv. Disgusting

Opinion man - would Dickens be more to your liking?

They want to turn all our children gay.

(please read the sarcasm in this)

It's a kids TV programme, not a documentary.