:sad: I am absolutley disgusted after watching 'Age 12 and looking after the Family' on channel 4 on Monday night. Did anyone else see it ?

I thought it was disgraceful the way those two idiots were allowed to carry on having more and more children yet accepting no more than 2 hours a week help from social services.

The parents, who were partially sighted, allowed the 2 eldest girls to basically run the house, whilst they were happily drinking and smoking themselves into oblivion.

The poor kids were filthy, I was crying at the point of their baby (who couldn't have been more than 8-9 months old) being thrown bread to on the dirty kitchen floor and at the part were they allowed the young baby to grab a handful or scalding hot chips then cry in pain when they burnt his poor little lips.

One of the elder girls had put a bin bag over her head and the other older girl showed no emotions at all.

I thought it was so sad that in this day and age, families are living in this way. I thought it was terrible the way the programme showed all this yet all the mention of help at the end was that the family were moved to a bigger house and were given a family support worker. Surely they should have people daily going in with a family of this size.

Someone else must have seen it ? What did you think ?

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