You're Not Splitting Up My Family (1 Viewer)

[Daisy's Dukes]

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Tuesday 18 September 2007, Channel 4
9:00pm
This moving documentary follows two young boys, their widowed father and social services, as a family is split up. With unprecedented access, this observational documentary follows both sides of the story as social services become increasingly concerned about two twins’ physical and emotional well-being. Over three eventful months the situation worsens and the boys are removed from the care of their father - and filming stops. Ten years later the documentary revisits the boys to see how their lives turned out.

 

[sweetoblivion]

I watched about 20 mins of this and had to turn it off, it was too upsetting

 

[La La]

thanks for the heads up but my god what a depressing docu - the look in the dad's eyes made me fall to pieces....awful.

 

[sweetoblivion]

those poor boys I always find programmes like that so hard to deal with. It's awful watching kids who have no choice how they'r brought up...and how it affects them all through their life.
I find ones about parents splitting up (I know this one wasnt about that) very hard as my own parents are divorced.

 

[Lord Damian]

so what's the deal, why exactly were the kids taken away? was the dad not taking care of them?

 

[La La]

basically once the mother died, the dad kinda did too. i mean to have seen a pic of him before - he literally aged 20 years after she passed. and he became a reclusive drinker who, when he reminisced about her, completely lit up - until he remembered the reality of his situation. he wasn't a good loving father figure - he wanted to be, but could never follow through. he didnt parent his children and as a result they ended up with over 36 convictions between them at the age of 22 despite being sent to care at the age of 12!!!

so sad.

 

[sweetoblivion]

The way the mother died in front f the kids was horrific.
The granny wasn't much help either 'I'll murder you while you're asleep'

 

[Lord Damian]

well, this is a depressing way to end my working day. thanks ladies.

 

[sweetoblivion]

Anytime!

 

[La La]

secondedededed.

god this was a real miserable hour of my life. will someone say something to cheer me up?

 

[sweetoblivion]

raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

 

[La La]

fanks. i need to think about puppies of the chocolate labrador kind for the next few minutes then i should be right.

 

[sweetoblivion]

no worries
I know, it takes a while to get over those programmes

 

[ernesto]

here:

 

[La La]

here:

omgomgomgomgomg looks like you and all!!!

awwwwwwwwwwwwh

 

[sweetoblivion]

what on earth is that?

 

[HMD]

only saw the last half hour of it. The poor bastards.

 

[Daisy's Dukes]

Sooooooooo sooooooo sad. The scene where the twins were sitting on the couch with their friend Dodger and the dad and granny said that they never wanted to see them again made me cry. The camera zoomed in on Mark and he was fighting back the tears (the first time I'd seen tears from either of them) and looked so young and vulnerable.

Then the final scene with Jason walking along holding the hand of his girlfriend's young son and I wondered was the cycle starting over again.

I can't stop thinking about their cheeky little faces hiding their fear and confusion. And, god, it wasn't that long ago that all that unfolded.

A synopsis for those who didn't see it.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/tv/2007/09/last_nights_tv_youre_not_split.html

 

[nofriendo]

what on earth is that?

its a shaved rat