DH and I don't normally watch things like this because they are usually depressing but Radio Times had it as the documentary of the week.
Well, all I can say is that I will avoid programmmes like that in future. DH and I were completely and utterly shocked by what we saw. Can someone please tell me why SS will quite happily remove children from loving parents who have the temerity to raise their voice at their children but parents like these who wilfilly neglect their children are left to get on with it?
Being blind is neither here or there. Both parents were lazy and emotionally detached from their children. The baby is crying and they do not tend to its needs. They leave the younger ones in soiled nappies all day until the older girls return from school but yet they both can see well engough to pour beer and light cigarettes? FGS. SS need to do something NOW. Tell them that they are going to get help or they are going to lose their children. The children's welfare must be paramount and the two girls need counselling for emotional neglect.
There is absolutely no excuse for this. Poverty and disability are just red herrings. My grandmother was left with 10 children when my grandfather died in Jamaica. There were no SS, no handouts, no nothing. All the children mucked in to help out around the two room shack that they lived in but you know what? It was clean, they were clean even though they had no shoes and my DM only had one dress which she wore to school. That was washed every evening by hand ready for the next day and DM said even though they had to walk barefoot to school, the teachers expected them to be clean and they were. This was in Jamaica in the 1930s.
This programme has sickened me to the core. How can this kind of neglect still be happening in the UK in the 21st century?