General Chat

I didn't watch it myself, but it was discussed at length on the lunchtime phone-in programme on Radio Devon today. Think it's maybe a good job I didn't see it - would've got really annoyed! Angela

When she cryed and said i just wish my mum and dad weren't blind.....i thought my heart would break...;0(( And i have to say...they made me very angry!!!! For all reasons you have stated!!

Rosalyn i was shocked by the prog the selfish feckless parents my heart went out to all the children.Now i am sorry re their disability but those poor girls i didn,t see any love of any kind in that house at all.As to how the powers that be is allowing this to happen beggars belief. June x

Couldn't believe it.I was so angry. Those poor girls!!As for the parents, how selfish. They didn't seem to be bothered. Those kids crawling about in goodness knows what!!I noticed at one point the baby under the bin outside. I would like to knock those parents heads together. How they can keep on having more kids and puting a strain on the two girls beggers belief.

I was still thinking about this when I went to bed...did anyone else notice how spookily silent the four younger children were? Apart from a bit of crying, I don't think I heard them utter a sound, let alone a word. The parents talked to each other, the two girls talked to camera, but the four little ones didnt talk, and nobody talked to them. And yet - SS can take a child away from a loving foster home because the parents don't encourage its ethnic culture, or don't braid its hair properly. OC

So they were as selfish as I thought in the few mins I watched. Marion

They were partially blind ...when they went to visit a grave of a still born child the father managed to ride a disabled scooter while the others walked.!!!!!! Val

Hi I only watched a wee bit of it. Was I right in thinking the couple were blind? I just heard them say..they wanted a big family to look after them when they were old. Very selfish I thought. Sitting there with fish'chips still in paper, even the wee one was eating the paper. That poor 12 yr old. I can see her taking off and leaving it up to the others. I didn't watch much of it so maybe I got it wrong. Marion

I was absolutely disgusted, the parents were just down right lazy sitting there smoking all the time while those poor girls looked after the children. Many people who are completely blind manage to look after there children. As for wanting more children they should not be allowed. The poor boy who was looking after his mother ...well how sad was that, there again i know someone with her illness and she still manages to do lots of jobs around the house. Val

Wasn't it amazing though, that both those girls AND the teenage lad looking after his mum, were such NICE children - sensible, and doing well at school? I wondered how that couple will manage when the 12 year old turns into a sixteen year old and heads for the hills? OC

I wanted to grab that little girl up in my arms and adopt her and give her the life she SHOULD be having! Poor little mite! I agree with OC...Those parents should have made the decision to be sterilised! Sorry if i offend anyone but the crying over the dead babies grave made me even madder!...They already have a beautiful Daughter that leads a life of drudgery!....shame they dont cry for her! Gerri.

That`s what I thought and she didn`t know she`d had a miscarriage. These wee girls didn`t have a normal life except when they went to the Carers group .Then he had the cheek to say that if they didn`t help they wouldn`t be 'Young Carers' Ros

Made my blood boil - that selfish couple wanted a good slapping. They should have been sterilised after two children. OC

I felt so sorry for these wee girls and thought their parents were a bit selfish. What do other people think? Ros