in being so bloody offended that Channel 4 have aired tonight's Wife Swap

[AdelaideJo]

Please tell me i'm not the only one sick to my stomach at what the Bristol family are putting that 18 month old baby girl through on a daily basis.

If you read all the way through both threads mmj (as I have) you will see that there are one or two posters who are denying neglect.

It was the worse Wife swap ever shown. The little girl was adorable I am in shock at the state of the house and the care given to the child. Edited or not it was very clear that the bristol woman was nothing but lazy she stated it herself.

I do hope that things have changed in that household People should really think twice about appearing on these shows.

Frankly that mother is undeserving of a beautiful child like that when she cannot be arsed to take care of her. The father is just as bad for being so pathetic that he would allow his child to be treated like that. If she pulls herself together then being on this program was a good thing for all. To be fair she did seem to love her child and did not seem evil in any way jusy lazy and stupid!

Sadly some people do live like that

Agreed TMMJ

There was utter outrage on Facebook statuses last night.

I am shocked people on here are condoning this womans behaviour.

Kudo's to the other mother though she generally loved and cared for that little girl.

My house is so messy that when we had a burglary not long ago I had to reassure police that the place had not been ransacked, this was just the normal amount of stuff on the floor and all over the place for us. Mess can be hard to keep on top of if you are not interested in housekeeping. But living in a messy house is different to living in squalor and not caring for your children adequately.

and she is having another baby !!!!!!!!!!!!

C4 gone too far, IMO, Wife Swap has usually had a lighthearted edge to it, this was tantamount to child abuse, tragic, poor little Georgina and now the new baby, please make things change for them.

Just finished watching it. Am so utterly shocked. Have to say this also blows holes in the other AIBU 'discussion' going on saying that the best thing for babies under 2 is to be cared for by a parent.

Mintyy There is messy and then there is dirty.

I have books on pretty much every surface available, there is washing about the place in various states of folding/ironing/putting away. DS's lego is all over the coffee table and we are forever putting toys away, there is dust on the TV and a couple of spiderwebs in the upper corners. But the house is clean. The kitchen is kept clean, the bathroom is clean, there are fresh sheets once a week, clean towels and clothes etc.

I like a bit of mess, but I can't stand dirtiness - it would be terribly rude of me, but I would not have been able to stay there. I wouldn't even have wanted to sit down. I think the visiting mother did well not to grab the baby and run personally.

I know the director of the show, next time I see her I'll ask if anything happened as a result of this.

PMSL that the lazy one thought the other woman's house was posh! Just looked like an average house to me...

Anyway, going off subject...

How cute was the baby!!!!

Posie, it would be interesting to know if she kept up the new good habits, or just did them until they went back for the follow up....

this broke my heart last night and i was truely saddened

the little girl was being abused - abuse is not just sexual - but also emotionally and intelectually

i blame the dad as well as the mum, yes he was at work, but he knew what was going on and didnt kick her fat lazy arse into looking for and caring for his child

being left alone for hours in her cot with nothing to eat till 1pm, though obv she was given milk - i assume that bottles were left the night before in her cot for her to have as and when

georgina was such a happy little soul and when got love and attention was so pleased

yes the blonde lady was a tad obsessive about cleaning but better that then to ignore your baby

i just hope some good came of this programme, the sheer look of pleasure on georginas face when playing at the soft play centre

some people just DONT deserve to be parents, they cant manage to look after one child, and is now pregnant, and gets a larger house (prob will trash it give a few months)

and then you get those on here who are desperate to have the priviledge of being able to be a parent, and might never be called mummy

hear hear Blondeshavemnorefun

Have just watched this from link on here.

This should never have been shown on tv. The little girls mum obviously needed some family support.
However some of the posts on here are very too.

I feel just as sorry for the poor little kitten.

Sorry but can she really be so depressed that she can't look after her house & kid but can have the confidence to go out 4 times a week and do karaoke (and sign up for WifeSwap of course)? When I have been depressed there's no way I could have done that . That's a bit of a cop out IMHO, she is just lazy and selfish. Depression does not make you a slattern. I think C4 were right to show this and I really don't think they could stage manage a weeks worth of cat shit in an unemptied litter tray. It was shocking and outrageous and should make people like her think again.

I do actually feel sorry for the DH, I think he was doing all he could (seems that he fed the DD in the AM before going to work). He probably put up with it to keep the peace and his family together. All the blame should be on her. She should be throughly ashamed of herself.

Lilyloo, why did the little girl's mum obviously need some family support? She didn't work, she didn't do the housework, she didn't do the cooking and she didn't do all that much childcare. What did she need family support for? Helping her to sit online for 6 hours a day? Dropping her off at the karaoke 4 times a week? Or perhaps plumping her pillows whilst she lay in bed until afternoon?

bumptwitknocker, I felt sorry for the kitten too. Cats hate dirty litter trays and I presume it's confined to the house which won't help.

I think that people should be very wary of jumping to conclusions.Apart from the litter tray and the fag ashes on the sink (yuk) was the house really all that bad ?The dad seemed to clean every night.Poor sod.
The baby perhaps didn't go to bed til after midnight so a 1.30 get up wouldn't have meant she was left hours in her cot.
The little girl seemed to play happily by herself - just as she would have done if the mum had been doing the housework !
Can't think of any excuse for giving her crisps for breakfast through.
Happily the mum seems to be getting her act together