Poor kids bbc1

[gtidriver]

Is any one else watching this? It's very sad that kids have to live in such st holes theses days.living below the bread line but still got the monster plasma tv..

[cazzer]

I'm sorry...but how much does a tin of bloody paint cost for the walls?

[GG89]

Shocking, real eye opener.

[GG89]

In the case of the Glasgow family the damp was coming through the walls, The young girl said her parents wouldn't buy wallpaper or paint because the damp would just come straight through and ruin that aswell, Which is fair enough.

Why worry about decor when you can barely put food on the table?

[NathanJones]

You cannot paint over damp, it needs to be treated first, but I didn't understand why she was cutting the mould from the blinds as the whole set of blinds had spores on them. Heartbreaking, the young lad so exposed when stating he goes without meals on a regular basis.

[gtidriver]

I just went and gave my little boy a hug so so sad, i might make him watch it to show how lucky he is.
wtf is going on with the toothless mum, maybe if she gave up what she was on the family would have more cash.

I'd hate to be in that sad situation.

[GG89]

gtidriver said:

I just went and gave my little boy a hug so so sad, i might make him watch it to show how lucky he is.
wtf is going on with the toothless mum, maybe if she gave up what she was on the family would have more cash.

I'd hate to be in that sad situation.

No doubt on many occasions food money is used for drugs. stty situation as you say. Sending millions of pounds in aid away every year, sort our own countries out first!

[covmutley]

Very sad, that damp is unacceptable and so bad that failure just seems to be programmed into these kids.

Thing is, after they moved into the home I couldn't help thinking how long it would take for them to wreck it. Guess I do judge people....

[gtidriver]

The councils should be ashamed, but the single dad does have two tv's though.

[gtidriver]

The interviewed kids have a lot of bottle to open up on tv like this.

[Dave_ITR]

The boy called Sam was a really decent little kid.

Good head on his shoulders.

Looked so different after his first trip to the hairdressers at 12 years of age!

Edited by Dave_ITR on Tuesday 7th June 23:52

[covmutley]

Dave_ITR said:

That kid called Sam seemed like a real decent little boy.

Yep, he is smart and will be fine.

[gtidriver]

I hope he (Sam) makes something of his life he seams well spoken and very polite, a credit to his dad.

[gtidriver]

Actually most of the kids are well spoken,the teachers at the schools must be very good.

[eskidavies]

sams dad got a nice tv and a ps3 which is connected to wifi, so he must have got a phone line to have broadband as well ,at least hes using it to look for work fair play to him.

Edited by eskidavies on Wednesday 8th June 00:03

[RossiT]

I had to switch it off, it's heartbreaking to see little kids living in those conditions. It's awful to think they're going to bed hungry and living in the damp.
Why do we get involved with other countries issues when we have this here.

[Funk]

It's heartbreaking just how aware those kids are of money, or specifically a lack of it. They should be carefree, but they're worrying about budgets, buying school uniforms, food...

[Bing o]

RossiT said:

I had to switch it off, it's heartbreaking to see little kids living in those conditions. It's awful to think they're going to bed hungry and living in the damp.
Why do we get involved with other countries issues when we have this here.

Try travelling a bit. Further than Spain. HTH.

[Pints]

Bing o said:

Try travelling a bit. Further than Spain. HTH.

I've travelled further than Spain (in fact, I've never been to Spain) and have witnessed the dire poverty in other parts of the world.

As harsh as it may sound, I also believe we should be sorting out our own issues rather than thinking we're feeding a starving African child. Apart from the fact that most of the money which gets sent doesn't make it past the hands of corruption, there is very little long-term development actually being planned to take the impoverished out of the conditions they're in.

The reality is that feeding a child for a day in much of the 3rd world is not going to save them.
And you've been trying to teach them to feed themselves for just about long enough now.

However, our little Glaswegian lad stands a much, much, much better chance of survival and productivity if we spend (and managed) our resources on our own doorstep.

Edited by Pints on Wednesday 8th June 08:55

[wolves_wanderer]

Funk said:

It's heartbreaking just how aware those kids are of money, or specifically a lack of it. They should be carefree, but they're worrying about budgets, buying school uniforms, food...

It is a shame that the parents seem to load the negativity onto their kids. If it was me I would like to think that I would handle things differently, that little lad from Leicester with his second hand school uniform - if the family didn't watch TV for a week (at £1 for 6 hours) they could buy him a new uniform. And the house damn sure wouldn't look like a tip if I was there all day.

As previously said, the kids seem intelligent and well spoken, I just feel that they get nothing but negativity from their folks when in a developed country like this, if you have a brain and ambition there is no need to live that kind of life.