You're not splitting up my family, on channel 4

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Anyone else watching this?

i think they were screwed the minute their mum died
The nan and dad were never going to be able to do it.
Oh god, then their aunt

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the aunt died

still on ch 4.
have criminal records for numerous offences. one fared less badly than other. one stayed with aunt and family til 18, other went through care system "proper" including secure accom.

v v v sad

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intresting how one of them turned out with worse life than other

what dya mean darling? what is a reg of the courts???

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The Grandma seemed so bitter towards them - no love, just seeing them as a burden to her and her son.

i wondered,
is it regular?

am i right

oh deffo.
on first name terms with the ushers i bet!

unbelievable attitude of grandma, after all thsi time

sorry but she is a complete cow. so cold and hard.
wonder what her childhoos was like though... grimmer than grim i expect...... that vis part of the whole tragedy.
what do you think the boys chances are of being good dads?? small i'd say.

Jason has a wee boy. I hope he breaks the cycle of being a bad father.

i agree, small chance of really being a good dad, it is not a bed of roses, hope he can break cycle but seems to be too fond of booze too

one of them seems like his doing good, trying to make it straight.
real shame they seemed like nice kids

little boy isnt his, its his girlfriends boy.

He seemed to be really trying to be a good father figure for the little boy.
I felt so sorry for them.

Found this really difficult to watch.

It was disturbing viewing

It was so sad the way they turned out, but I guess it could have been a whole lot worse At least they had a loving home at their aunts for a few years.

The grandma seemed mean because she was scared. The dad was mean and useless because he didn't know any better, he didn't know how to communicate with his children. He loved them though. It's wrong to say the drunk driver killed a whole family, he didn't. He killed one member. It was the remaining family that killed it. Heart breaking, I agree.

Wasn't it sad. The boys were given no love car or attention during their most formative and heartbreaking years.

Father was a old soak and grandmother was so uncaring it was incredible.

Watched it too. Very sad.

The gran reminded me so much of my granny for some reason! Although mine more killed me with kindness! But she looked like her - esp the constant ciggie and the apron thingie and head-scarf.

It was such a shame that the dad couldn't/wouldn't see that they were crying out for his attention and love.

The GM was a shit stirrer, the poor lad had only just dropped by to see his twin and as soon as pissed of this parish returns homw she launches into I have never been so insulted.

Then the poor wee lad was left trying to defend himself in front of his father a drunk, who had rolled in from the WMC not from work.