AIBU to be angry at mum smoking with her 6 week old baby on her shoulder

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Watching Chanel five program about large family's. Regardless of them being on benefits or not she is making me really angry that she is smoking whilst her baby is on her shoulder sleeping.
I know if I don't like it I should turn it off but ffs where is her common sense to not smoke around her baby like that it's boiled my piss

Think it's a goady programme tbh, the irony was the family moaning about the upheaval of the renovation and the effect it will have on their newborn when mum it smoking with baby's face 4 inches away

So is this post about large families, benefits or smoking?

Did we learn nothing from Benefits Street? You do know it's all contrived goady shit, don't you?

Feel so sorry for Satin Tia she has got no choice but to breathe in her mums smoke at such a young age. The mum seems like it's not a problem to her and she should be ashamed of herself it's bordering on neglect.

It is goady crap but how do you paint a good picture of a parent smoking while holding their newborn?

She would not be doing it if the TV station wasn't endorsing it. They want the most shocking thing to draw in viewers. This stuff is all improved with a loose script. The producers knew about what she was going to do before she did it. You should be directing your anger towards the TV station that is taking advantage of a person desperate for money.

i think the mother smoking is the least of that poor childs worries.

why would she not be doing it princess baby cat?

In my op I said regardless of them being on benefits or not she is smoking with her 6 week old on her shoulder four inches from the baby's face that is disgusting and unhealthy for the innocent baby.

Yeah but she'd still be doing it anyway, wouldn't she? Because if she wouldn't, that means some tv person has said, "ooh, you've got your baby on your shoulder, would you mind sparking up a fag? It's okay, it's for telly".

It's fucking horrible and so was watching him pouring coke in the little ones bottles.

Surely no responsible broadcaster would endorse the smoking with a newborn just to draw in viewers. I'm angry on the baby's behalf and the small kids that were drinking coke in their bottles poured in by their father.

No amount of money would bribe me to smoke whilst holding my newborn baby, if it is something the tv company has encouraged her to do it doesn't make it any less irresponsible.

I don't really understand the point of threads like this. Yes, we all know you shouldn't smoke close to a newborn baby. But don't we also all know that some people's lives are unbearably shit, that they are poor, possibly depressed, badly educated, with few prospects, few role models, and basically just trying to get through one day to the next? Do people honestly not have enough imagination or empathy to think that maybe, when every minute's a struggle, you might reach for a cigarette to help you get through, and you might even do this while holding a baby, because you've got to keep going in order to look after that baby and you know a cigarette is not actually going to kill your baby then and there? Is the suggestion that this mother doesn't love or care about her baby? I doubt that's true. Is it that she has made a bad choice? Yes, probably she has, but for goodness' sake, let's walk in her shoes before we get on our moral high horses about it. Because actually, on reflection, I think I do understand the point of threads like this - they're meant to make 'us', who criticize mothers who are struggling, feel better about ourselves.