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*************************aged 12 and looking after the family*******************CH4 NOW

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Nemo2007 · 05/02/2007 21:02

looks interesting.

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tommysmama · 05/02/2007 21:41

As someone with experience with people with mental impairment, i feel i can say with some certainty that the woman has some problems. Surely SS noticed this?

This is awful.

Heathcliffscathy · 05/02/2007 21:41

I find it disgusting that social services are not intervening in this family

to say that the older two daughters will resent what they hae had to do is the understatement of the year.

all of these children are being abused, to a huge extent.

the tragedy of this, that care wouldn't be a better lot necessarily.

this programme is so needed. i commend the filmakers.

horrible viewing.

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Nemo2007 · 05/02/2007 21:41

that they need a break.

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twelveyeargap · 05/02/2007 21:42

DH has just said, "Can you imagine what David Blunkett thinks of these shenanigans?" David Blunket is completely blind and has held high political office, despite being packed off to a blind school to learn how to basket weave and nothing else.

There's no excuse for these people doing fck all. Even if they can't find paid work, they most certainly do not need to leave their kids in dirty nappies all day until the older ones come home.

Oh God. Younger girl tried to kill herself.

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Nemo2007 · 05/02/2007 21:42

bloody hell

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galaxy · 05/02/2007 21:43

I think it;s truly shocking. I turned this on with the vain hope that it would present a united family where the children took an active part in supporting the parents. However, it's a form of abuse....why don't social services do something. They must be able to insist that the family has support

It's terribly sad

galaxy · 05/02/2007 21:43

That poor litle girl - someone help them

Heathcliffscathy · 05/02/2007 21:44

that boy had nappy rash that meant he couldn't stand up.

ffs

MusicLover · 05/02/2007 21:44

phew ,not sure I can watch this.
How awful, do you actually think they are selfish having that many children. I do!

EllieKwithabigbump · 05/02/2007 21:45

i am so
sat here in tears, how can they continue to do this to their children?

tommysmama · 05/02/2007 21:45

This is total abuse.

This girl tried to kill herself! my god.

I cant watch this. I just want to go round and look after these poor babies. Thinking of my DS in this environment makes me feel sick.

bandstand · 05/02/2007 21:45

absolutely not what i was expecting!

AitchTwoOh · 05/02/2007 21:45

i'm sure someone will do something now...

was the elder girl smirking about her wee sister trying to commit suicide? (am not painting her as a baddie, by the way, she just seems dangerously dissociated to me, the poor child).

Beauregard · 05/02/2007 21:46

Not watching now but following this thread.
Wont social services be forced to act upon seeing this programme?

Heathcliffscathy · 05/02/2007 21:47

aitch...i was just saying to dh that the eldest daughter is 'avoidantly attached'. it is defensive reaction: you 'don't give a shit'....because you can't afford to (much more complicated but that is the basic gist).

galaxy · 05/02/2007 21:47

I'm not surprised that Jenny is being abused at school - I think back to kids in my school 30 years ago who were considered to be "the smelly kids" . They were bullied.

My mum's mother suffered from chronic depression when my mum was a child and my mum suffered from abuse and violence from the other kids in school who called her mother the "mad old witch". She has just been on the phone in tears to me about this.

pinkchampagne · 05/02/2007 21:47

This is just awful. Really disturbing to watch.

Heathcliffscathy · 05/02/2007 21:48

her abusiveness is a result of how much she has been abused....and lets be serious here...she is has suffered the most....

nutcracker · 05/02/2007 21:48

The eldest is so emotinally detached isn't she. Mind you I think if she showed any emotion she'd probably break down.

galaxy · 05/02/2007 21:49

and the point of that was that my mum looked after her older sister's illegitimate son from when she was 11, w(hilst her older sister went to work0, nursed her "sick" mother and missed much ofher schooling. But she says she made sure the house was spotless and that the kids were "shiny"....I am sitting here in floods of tears. That happened in the 1950's. How can this be going on today?

AitchTwoOh · 05/02/2007 21:50

i completely agree, sophable. when i said 'dangerously dissociative' i meant dangerous to herself and her ongoing mental health.
she needs help, psychological, emotional, and just plain babysitting.

bandstand · 05/02/2007 21:50

do you really expect a 12 year old to open up to a tv maker? she is naturally defensive.

Berries · 05/02/2007 21:51

I have a great Uncle & Aunt who are both registered blind. They had 3 children who were all brought up with love & care (they did have some help, but minimal) These people are not indicative of blind people everywhere.

Carmenere · 05/02/2007 21:51

The eldest daughter is the one who has most of my sympathy, she is locked in a coping mode, it is very sad, poor, poor child.

jalopy · 05/02/2007 21:51

Words fail me......

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