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Aged 12, and looking after the Family

Documentary - Channel 4 (February 2007)

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DB
dbl
Did anyone watch it, here's my opinion of it.

I'm truly disgusted with the parents, being blind and having your children bearing the burden to the point the a 8 year old attempted suicide is just shocking. What worried me is her 12 year old sister didn't seem to have any emotion of care for what nearly happened to her sister.

I was disturbed to see that the toddler and baby's bedroom was capped tight with no air flowing through, there are 3 young children in there especially a baby, anything can happen with no proper air flow, giving a 9 month old baby chips for dinner is un-healthy the baby of that age shouldn't be eating such stuff.

The floors are absolutely filthy, and the shocking thing is the toddlers and baby Nigel were eating from the ground.

I was also shocked about the ignorance of the Parents attitude towards smoking while pregnant, don't they know that smoking risks your child having a serious illness due to the mutation of the chromosome, they were so ignorant their eldest doing the work whlist they sit there having a fag and a lager.

All I can say is there needs to be serious intervention to make sure they are not mentally wearing out the girls, I believe they are losing their childhood due to heavy burdens of responsibility.

The irony of it all is they believe that having more children will take the burden off one child but what about the next child, the only positive thing I have is the girls have worked so hard I'm impressed with their maturity but still something needs to be done.


With the other story Ryan and Jill, I was impressed with but at the same time causing stress, at least the home looked tidy and sanitary.

Just heartbreakingly sad. Sad
LI
lilhelen
i totaly agree felt sick watching it, scummy ****! yes its sad they are blind but making those kids look after the family is wrong, what bad parents. the council should take them away because one child had **** down its leg not wiped and eurgh! the whole house was not a place to bring up kids.
MW
Mike W
I Cant believe it. she wiped on child and he still had fecees on him.
ST
stevek
would have been interesting to hear what the local social services thought of the situation
JO
Johnny83
Never saw the programme but considering the situation shows that our social services are in a mess, look at that couple who were sent to jail this week for mistreating their young disabled daughter.

That family where the 12 year old didn't seem to care, as one poster put it above, probably has had to put up with it for so long that's she's given up. The fact the mother is pregnant again means more pressure on the 12 year old again.

The social services should act now after that programme
PT
Put The Telly On
The mother is pregnant...again?! Shocked I'm sorry but thats just selfish.
ST
stevek
sounds like they are just producing a possy of children to look after them in old age Mad

it's legalised child abuse.

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