to think that pointing cameras at...

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...well-meaning but rather inadequate people to whom life has dealt a bad hand, so that middle-class BBC1 viewers can sneer at them, is pretty cheap TV?

I'm not sneering at them and i'm a middle class bbc 1 viewer

I feel sorry for them .I can't stand people who generalize and throw everybody in the same basket.

In fact it makes me appreciate my lot much more and gives me a greater understanding of these troubled families.

I don't think it's sneering - so many people point and blame families like this with no real understanding of their issues, back ground and problems - at least this attempts to show what their lives are like - I say that as somebody who works with 'problem' kids and families AND as a parent who has accessed family support services

it's a bit of a busmans holiday watching it but maybe people need to see the reality for people

No sneers here. What has struck me is how much the difficulties often go back a generation or more.

I think it is very good education for the families who don't know how to carry on correctly.Some people are just incapable of bringing up a family and need programes like this to show them the way.