Yes, they loved coming to the house and drinking tea and chatting - I had to tell them not to darken my door again (in the nicest possible way!) because I couldn't see any point to the visits.
I suspect that visits to struggling families aren't nearly as much fun - and, in fairness, the struggling families probably aren't as easy to find and contact.
But I wonder, though, in retrospect, what anyone outside the family could have done to save the twins. It looks as if there were concerns about their care before they were even discharged from hospital, with the parents not showing an interest in visiting and caring for them. Short of posting a nurse to sit in the house 24 hours a day and monitor what was going on, I don't know what would have made a difference.
In retrospect they should never have gone home to that environment, but if they'd been removed from their parents at birth there'd have (rightly) been an outcry.
And the extended family were just as awful as the parents, so no help there.
Poor little things, they had no chance, did they.