a new low for C4(An English TV channel) : Violence and bullying as children fend for themselves.
Channel 4 last night stood accused of exploiting children for ratings.
Charities said the broadcaster had hit a new low with a Big Brother-style reality show for youngsters as young as eight.
The four-part series Boys and Girls Alone shows children repeatedly sobbing and begging to be allowed to go home after being left to fend for themselves for a fortnight (two weeks)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...hemselves.html
If you or I left children aged 8 - 12 yrs old alone for 2 weeks we would, rightly, be accused of child abuse, child endanerment and child abandonment, if tv producers and the kids parents preced to do exactly the same thing, but 'keep on eye on them" via remote video feed it's OK? they are allowing the bullying, the smoking(???and who provided her with the cigarettes) the violence to carry on and they are just sitting around watching it, and then refusing to allow the children to leave even after the children have begged and screamed and cried to go home.
this whole thing sickens me, the parents should not get the children back and the TV station should have to pay for all of the councelling these children are going to need for however long those children need it
Channel 4 last night stood accused of exploiting children for ratings.
Charities said the broadcaster had hit a new low with a Big Brother-style reality show for youngsters as young as eight.
The four-part series Boys and Girls Alone shows children repeatedly sobbing and begging to be allowed to go home after being left to fend for themselves for a fortnight (two weeks)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...hemselves.html
If you or I left children aged 8 - 12 yrs old alone for 2 weeks we would, rightly, be accused of child abuse, child endanerment and child abandonment, if tv producers and the kids parents preced to do exactly the same thing, but 'keep on eye on them" via remote video feed it's OK? they are allowing the bullying, the smoking(???and who provided her with the cigarettes) the violence to carry on and they are just sitting around watching it, and then refusing to allow the children to leave even after the children have begged and screamed and cried to go home.
this whole thing sickens me, the parents should not get the children back and the TV station should have to pay for all of the councelling these children are going to need for however long those children need it
What kind of parents allow their children to take part in something like this? The producers, the TV stations and every single one of those parents should be rounded up and beaten! Then throw their stupid a$$es in jail for what they have done to those poor kids! Where the he!! is Social Services?!
on everyone involved! If they had a lick of common sense they would know better. I hope they don't try bringing this to the US or I, for one, am calling social services. Even an 11 or 12 year old child is still a child and requiring parental care most of the time.
