Kids Taking Care of Their Big Family | Our Lives: Young Carers | Real Families
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I dont blame the parents for being blind
But i do blame the parents for having 7 children
@Sweet Cheeks ikr, it's okay to have one or two kids as guides and to help around the house but the rest of the kids are just liabilities and will end up not feeling loved
Yes ,why will you be VIP and still be having a lot lot of children, is insane and irresponsible.
Right, like if they had a couple kids that's one thing but 7 kids and they won't take any outside help, that's not fair
They were both from big families, so of course they would want the same thing. Teenage moms's children are often teenage mom too. There's a pattern.
They have the human right to chose to have children. However I'm not happy with the reason they said they want a lot. And where are the kids rights to be a kid
My mom is blind and has three children. I am the eldest. I was NEVER made to take care of my siblings, except for of course the occasional date night babysitting or what have you when I was 14 and older. She simply got creative - put different textured stickers and velcro on appliances to tell the buttons apart; arranged the house in a certain way and we all knew not to rearrange it so she knew how to get around safely. She would take taxis to our school functions or have neighbors take us places we needed to go. My mom was the most involved, loving, and attentive parent we could ever ask for.
Blindness is not an excuse for doing this to your children...
Yes, a blind parent can be just as good a parent as a seeing one. Of course there might be the occasional question about something that needs to be seen not felt or so but for most of the time they can do stuff just as well as seeing people :) You mom is a great example of that.
Ahh thats really amazing to read!
I think the mom has some big learning disabilities that impair her more than her blindness
*applause in braile*
Hope u also become a wonderful mother like her
"We want to prove we can do it." But you're not doing it. Your kids are doing it!
That dad are you kidding me can't change a diaperrr..but pour a beer an cigarette..mother smoking with dad just chilling while kids doing all the worrrkk..makes me sicckk
Your so right
Wo ist hier die Familien Unterstützung.
These children are not "heroes of society" they are innocent victims of abusive parents
Your exactly right... My heart right now 💔
Deborah Borne These two girls have parents who are disabled and can’t take care of the kids properly because of their disability like normal parents so basically let’s just say you had both parents that are disabled and they don’t take care of you normally like normal parents that doesn’t mean they are abusing you that just means they can’t take care of you properly not abuse Think about it before you say that it’s abuse when it’s not
They are not being abused
@@stephaniethetvshowgirl1072 Maybe they shouldn't have had children they knew they couldn't take care of. Hmmm......
Neglectful, not particularly abusive.
I just googled them and child services were involved only hours after the show aired.
Could you link the page you found? I would like to read it too but can't fihd anything
This is like the best thing l have read in the comments so far. Yes please tag a link so we can find the end results of this family
Thank god!!!
Oh thank God.
Good
Breaks my heart hearing Jenny’s voice break as she said she wished her parents weren’t blind…bc I think blind or sighted they’d be exactly the same. Blind parents take care of their children every day and fight against being seen like these people. Their children are clean, fed, and well cared for…by their PARENTS. They could do more, but it’s easier to pick up a beer and a smoke and wait for the girls to do it all. These people are pathetic.
I just rocked my 5 year old to sleep because she loves it...that poor little girl being sat down at 3 YEARS OLD and told she needs to be a caregiver is utterly heartbreaking 💔
The parents* seemed to have been scheming from the beginning, without any care for their children’s well-being. I’m nervous for how they all turned out
It's a terrible situation for the children who hopefully all adults now. Little Jenny trying to commit suicide breaks my heart. The eldest daughter appears to have no emotion for anything and anyone which is an understandable considering the strain and stress of her situation. It must seem endless to her but I hope that she eventually got her own life now she is an adult.
The moment I heard she's pregnant again, I lost it.
Me Too
Not blind enough for that
You shouldn't judge or police how many children this family decided to have
@@damecaprimm2726 they can have as many children as they want as long as they will take good care of them. Which this parents don't and want the other way.
Infuriating!!
Smoking in the house whilst pregnant, baby on the dirty floor sleeping in dirty clothes lord this makes me angry 👎🏾
And they have the gall to refuse extra help available. It’s one thing to refuse because you do it yourself, but to refuse because you rather put it on your kids is beyond messed up.
Exactly my thought!
@@sigourneybrand5695 these are the types of parents who need forced sterilization and the kids taken away.
Older children suffer
Simply put these are two people who had NO BUSINESS having children... maybe ONE that they were CAPABLE of caring for... but 7 kids?????????? No....... They have children simply to take care of the other kids they already can not care for.... They CLAIM they "... can do it and care for them..."??????? THEY (meaning the parents) are NOT caring for the children..... their older two children are taking care of the 5 youngest....... I agree they should be taken in to care and the two older girls should be finally permitted to have a NORMAL childhood for what is left of it and what their parents have not already stolen from them......
I am not one bit impressed with these “parents!”
When I saw the mother smoking a cigarette after just announcing she was pregnant with baby #7, that showed how much she truly cared about her children. Social services needs to step in & intervene on behalf of these kids!!!
It was filmed almost 20 years ago now, bitten thee girls escaped at 18 jeennnyy is marries with kids and Louise has a girlfriend and has horses and dogs
“Her mother didn’t think she’d cope with one child, but she’s been coping with six children.”
Sir - your children are coping for your other children
This is exactly why I wasn't surprised the eldest didn't like hugs or cuddles, it wasn't that she didn't like or care for them it's that she never received them. I'm curious how she survived honestly. She said they told her at 3 about the blindness and her needing to help but I'm betting she was helping and probably doing most things for herself before then and that's absolutely heartbreaking to me. She has never had a chance to even be a kid.
There’s a difference between blind and lazy.
Im completely agree
The mother has other disabilities
Soni Rai then she needs to stop having babies. The “dad” said they are proving critics wrong. Except him and his wife are only making the kid. Not taking care of them.
Exactly!!
100% agree. Why have kids if you cant take care of them 😥
When he said “ we had lots of children so they can take care of us when we’re older “ I felt so bad for the kids
That made me angry..those children living a miserable existence.
I agree...this should be a firm of child abuse!! And she's STILL having babies!!WTF
The mom saying she liked having a big family so they’d have help was also BS. Those poor kids. She needs to stop having babies. 🙄
Exactly, that is not why you have children
how to they even have babies? Marko polo?
Did anyone else find it chilling at how the older sister smiled when she was talking about Jenny attempting suicide? What a sad and tragic situation. 🙁
Yeah its was weird. The fact she hits on the kids anytime she wants gave me bad vibes as well..
It was terrifying 😢
Maybe these kids could go into childcare. There are people who would love to have and love these kids.
He carried the coffin to the grave. So he can see the lazy man
@@peregrine7303 social services did get involved after this was aired, there is an article online about them giving an update of what happened
I hope the eldest girls are now living a happy healthy life. The 2 blind parents should be ashamed taking advantage of their older kids. Breaks my heart
They are the oldest lives with her girlfriend and raises horses, and the younger one is happily married with her own children
@@ilaria298 yay I’m so pleased. Those girls deserve a happy relaxing life
The mum finishing her cigarette at three months pregnant then stepping over her baby son sleeping on the floor says it all
I know right, she can't see, but seen that baby on the floor and stepped right over him, smdh.
I know right, she can't see, but seen that baby on the floor and stepped right over him, smdh.
Bella Bup i cried
At least the mother is doing something. I watched another British child care giver documentary. Mother said she was "depressed." Wouldn't work and she had 20/20 vision. SMH
They are legally blind. Not 100% blimd
young carer sounds like a fancy name for “child neglect victim”
The way the parents talked about the older one wanting to stop caring for her siblings, like "She couldn't go to Young Carers then", sounded like they used the program to threaten her. "If you don't help out, you won't be able to go to these meetings anymore." It was her only hobby and free time.
@@raapyna8544 sounds to me like they wanted the 'young carer' allowance for their smoking and drinking habits
I think the emotional strain on their children is enormous. The children are parents and the parents are sucking the life out of them. The woman with fibromyalgia tried to kill herself. Probably just to make her son feel guilty. I have fibromyalgia and a lot more and live a normal life regardless of the pain and chronic fatigue. The blind (?) Parents to have a child try to kill herself because this lifestyle and the oldest never wanting children is criminal. What these greedy people have taken from their children.
If I were the little girl, I would run away
@the firstnoob - yes that's exactly what I thought about the mother/son as far as her attempting suicide, that she only did it for attention and to make him feel guilty. I think she is incredibly selfish. What I want to know is why she doesn't receive more help..who on earth thinks it's okay for her teenage son to have to bear the stress of the whole situation. I felt so badly for him as well. All these children are bloody slaves in my opinion. I wonder what happened to the teenager if he wanted to go to university? All these questions...makes me angry and sad to think about it all.
I feel so bad for the girls. The answer 'I like having lots of kids around because they can look after us when we're older' ... really just made my stomach drop. The eldest daughter really is doing her best but it's plain to see that there is a quiet resentment of her siblings. It's normal for siblings to not get along now and again but the way she is with her sister who co-parents and when she says she's not a cuddly person... I just felt like even if she isn't aware of it yet, she's angry at her situation. I hope that their parents will accept the help that's offered and stop having children in order to basically breed a crew of caretakers.
She ought to realize they would be more willing to look after the parents if they hadn't had to raise all the others first.
When the older sister says she does not like her sister, and the camera captures Jenny cooking with her little child's hands, I fell so so sad for her. Jenny is a flower in the desert. Both sisters paid a huge price for their stolen childhood, but perhaps Louises was the most affected, as she didn't develop any emphaty. I hope that as adults they got closer to each other and managed to build a different life, far from the degradation that theis parents imposed on them.
Quite frankly the camera crew should be obligated to report this family. The people who clean the house 2 hours a week should be reporting the conditions. This is not ok
Agree
Horrible
they chose this life style and its not illegal so they they can live this way.
Allyson McGaughey-Morgan the children didn’t choose this and yes it’s illegal neglecting ur kids and making your older ones take care of them. I understand they’re disabled but there’s still more they could do but are just lazy.
Allyson McGaughey-Morgan also smoking while pregnant and with a baby right next to you and other small children in the house is certainly not legal
As a disabled parent, I feel somehow offended by those parents.
QuiltingCrow hey don’t be sad your a parent?
I am dissabled as well. I still took care of my own kids. I really cant believe no one steps up for these kids.
Susan Ghent aww 😊 that’s really nice and hope you don’t feel pain
you absolutely have every right to feel offended. they make a bad name for disabled people being able to be parents and live and function "normally". I'm in a bloody wheelchair and that never stopped me from taking the absolute best care of my children that I can possibly give. this is just pure laziness and irresponsibility. they could have help, and instead choose to have more children and turn the older ones into abused, neglected slaves. it genuinely makes me sick to my stomach.
m t true 👏👏 don’t feel offended your a good parent at least you don’t step on your children if they are on the floor SATU STRONG ❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
the blind parents are such a 'behind closed doors' family - so proud of appearing independent and yet they don't care past that. i honestly don't think it occurs to them that 'raising' kids means more than making sure their basic needs are met through some method or another. i genuinely think they believe they're good parents
I hate HATE how everyone only mentions “poor Jenny” and won’t even use Louise’s name or acknowledge she is just as much the victim. Because she’s not as bubbly and cute and has lashed out at the other kids stemming obviously from her own depression and unbearable burdens and a complete lack of even ONE person loving or hugging her. How could she ever be normal. “Smiling” when she’s talking about her sisters attempt and saying she doesn’t care is a coping strategy and and trying to mask fear and anxiety. She was also Jenny’s age a couple years before and nobody said “ poor girl I want to rescue her” then either. A hopeless child is a child who can not mature emotionally or develop properly. Don’t blame her for that. She most of all needs intervention because she has suffered the most.
I couldn’t agree more. Each of these 7 (so far!) children are showing different dysfunctional coping mechanisms to a cruel parental set up. And the documentary is only a glimpse. If the parents aren’t able to see, their children are prey to abuse from the outside world as well. Who knows what Louise is undergoing. Poor kid!
She definitely is a victim of this backward life and her parents that sentenced her to that life. She also might be autistic, that's where the lack of emotions might come from. She seems detached, cold, unemotional and callous when laughing about her sister's suicide attempt. It could be from trauma and autism. It is tragic indeed.
Louise actually responded to a comment that I made I think on either this video or another upload of the same video. A couple of the kids including Louise were in the comments talking about and defending their life. Apparently the production people and the camera people were editing things to make it look worse than it actually was. Louise told me and one of her comments that The crew would ask her to say certain things and then they would edit it into the show to make things sound worse than they actually were.
that oldest girl has already cut off her emotions ..trouble ahead
HEARTBREAKER I agree!! This is not healthy what so ever!!! I hope she can get out early and will make it in life! I hope that for them all
Bet she never has kids 😔
I hope that the brothers grow to see what happening and eventually help out when possible and don’t be bratty, that would really suck
True and she's taking out her anger and frustration on her little sister, she's turned cold and mean!
Yes, that's what got me the most. Sad! The parents, especially the mother don't understand what parenting is. She seems clueless to what her daughters need emotionally. I don't doubt that they love the kids, they are just not well equipped to care properly for them and that has nothing to do with the blindness.
If Dad can see well enough to read, he can help care for the children. Neither of the parents are totally blind. They can do way more than they are. Their kids are being used as loving servants.
Leagally blind isn’t an excuse for neglecting the kiddos
@@fireofdawn3515 even being completely blind is no excuse to have this many kids you aren’t going to take care of
@@peryton5258 yup, I just put legally as that includes people who can see a little and people who can't see at all
My main concern is that the mother is pregnant again and friggin smoking.... BRUV. If she can see enough to light a smoke and not set her hand on fire then she can see enough to pick the baby up off the floor or summat
Oh I bet they can do way more then smoke and f**k. They’re just to stupid to realize it.
The fact that the little ones are kept in dirty nappies for four hours that while the kids are at school is shocking
Made my stomach churn.
"We wanted to have a large family so they can help us when we are older" has to be one of the most selfish statements a parent can make. Those children especially the two older girls don't own their parents anything. I hope the girls are doing better
So, the dad can apparently see well enough to read with a magnifyer, and navigate a scooter through city streets and walk around the city...but cannot take care of the kids? I call lazy parent status here!
From what I could see both the parents have issues, BUT they are playing on them. They are not anywhere near as bad as what they are saying. watch the program again and focus on what the parents are doing - eg stepping so close to a child in the stairwell that their foot actually brushes the child's clothing - My sight is pretty good and I wouldn't consider doing a move like that.
Yea don’t be rude candace
I agree!!! I believe that they probably can’t see that well BUT I think they are more LAZY than Blind!!!!
They shouldn't have kids at all
Sonya Blade you can have kids when you are blind but it's harder to care for them. I know a couple of people that have a fully blind parent and a mostly blind parent in them and are usually calm.
Him: "I've always wanted to be a father"
Everyone else including his own children: "So be one" 😒
Lazy selfish creatures. These "parents" are too blind to change boys' nappies but not this blind to light up the cigarettes, open and pour the beer or make coffee for themselves 😮 Giving birth to children to use them as servants is unacceptable! Feel sorry for all 6 kids 😢 Hope they safely grew up and had recovered from their traumatic childhood 🫶
This fell on me like a tonne of bricks, I hope this kids found the help and safety they so badly needed
The girls aren’t giving the parents a break, the girls are doing the full time parenting role these lazy adults should be doing. My heart is breaking for the girls and my stomach is turning at how neglected all of the children are.
You do realise this is from 2005. The eldest is now 27
I know but these parents can't really help that there blind but they basically said that the only reason they wanted kids is so somebody can take care of them when they are older and when I heard about that it made me mad and the older sister shouldn't hate her sister at least she tries to help with her brothers
And at least they try
Peter Higgins do you realize it doesn’t matter when it occurred, it is wrong.
@@dragonflystormchaseradvent8233 look I'm not trying to be mean but I understand your point and I understand mine yes it's not right for the parents do have all those kids just so they can take care of them when they are older but the parents actually tried you would be the same way if you couldn't see they tried and it is actually nice on the kids because that gives them good experience for when they have kids of there own I don't think it's actually that bad because if I have kids I want them to have that kind of experience so when they have kids I won't make them do it at a young age but I want them to be a good parent because most parents know and days are abused and I know what it's like because I have a father that's like that and my mom doesn't do anything about it and I have two brothers and I have to take care of them most of the time so I know what it's like and I'm sorry if I sound mean but I'm really not
Seeing her cry and make sandwiches broke my heart.
The mom only getting up to check the kids lip only after the interviewer says something angered me.
@@summerdawn6777 I'm pretty sure they mention she is
Mrs. Ozdemir it made me cry when the older sister said that she hates her sister and doesn’t love her. My siblings make me mad but I love them very very much
@@trayatate8478 That's because no-one showed HER love. Only dump all the weight on her and she is overwhelmed. Also, angry and the younger sister is a safe outlet. I feel awful for those girls, ALL THE PARENTS FAULT
Me too
@@trayatate8478 my brother hates me and when i was a kid he bruised me daily and left me out the house in the snow for a couple of hours only to get let in when mum got home from work. He still hates me and we havent talked in 20 years. He wont even talk to my daughter either.
My mom went blind when I was 10, she was able to care for us even though she couldn’t see. She was totally blind.
I realize everyone is different, but goodness.
2 words for those poor kids expected to care for their parents when they are older ...'nursing home'
The father said ” if they got a problem we're here for them ”
Honey!! You and your wife are the “ PROBLEM “
Exactly
Your daughter attempted suicide where were you then?!
So sad but true =(
Hit the nail right on the head ..THE PARENTS ARE PROBLEM ❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️they DON’T deserve to have ANY KIDS 🤢🤮
Swear 💁🏽♀️
“ i like having lots of children so they can look after me when I get old” now that is really wrong
Abuse right there.
Exactly why my mom says she had so many kids
c'mon it was seriously a joke
I said somewhere that would have been a joke but I just watched that again and oh god they were serious. it is why they had so many. I can't believe
Exactly
How often the blind parents said "we haven't thought about that really" is crazy to me 😮😠
The mom might be on the Autism Spectrum as well... the oldest daughter too, maybe... or she's just heavily traumatized and depressed.
Paul and Amanda are NOT fiercely independent. They are incredibly dependent ON THEIR CHILDREN!
“When we get older they can help us out”
They deadass do everything already wtf you mean😳
I hope they abandon their parents when they are older, they don't deserve anything else
And "we ask them to help out so we get a break" okay, 1. You don't do anything, 2. When do your kids get a break? Oh yeah! They don't!😞
they deadass?
Crazy asf
😂😂😂.not funny. But funny
I didn't see the mother actively care for one of her children or take responsibility once. You don't need vision to feed with a bottle or soothe a crying baby. Zero effort.
Ikr! I'm fully blind, 13, and can do just about anything a sighted person can do. These parents don't make the children help cause they're blind, they do it cause they're lazy
R L bruh if ur blind how u typing or watching this -.-
@@stranger._.1.077 oof, please educate yourself, there's ways and just because you're blind doesn't mean you can't hear
Ariane yes I understand that
Ok number 1 I have a screen reaeer that tells me what I'm typing and how to post it, and 2 I can listen to the voices and get what's happening just fine. Also, if you say it like that it sounds really offensive so please in future please be nicer with comments like this.
I feel like there’s more than just physical problems with the parents.
He threw the diaper exactly at his eldest daughter so she could change her baby brother's diaper. He's not that blind.
Good point 👌
When the dad said: “we want to show people we can do it” I can’t believe he is still saying we since THEIR children are taking care of the whole family...
When he said that my eyes popped open and my jaw hit the floor.
Kate Martina what an axxhxxx he is.. when the parents are elderly, I hope the children give the parents as care as the parents gave them.
I think he meant procreate
Why isn't CPS there I'm livid the longer I watch the worse it gets I cant watch any more
@@michelegonzalez9837 same here. I'm going to have to stop watching. I truly hope cps steps in here.
Makes me wonder who looked after the first two before they were old enough to take care of themselves.
seems like nobody looked after the oldest, and now she looks like she has the early signs of sociopathy.
@@ridespirals I thought that too. She seemed to find it funny that the ten year old neighbour killed herself and she's holding in the laughs talking about her nine year old sister's near suicide
@@lucyavarda1742 she surely doesn't find it funny. She just never learned how to handle or express her feelings
Lucy Avarda i watched that scene again and she totally was holding in laughter, this situation is so sad
NatisPL I was wondering the same thing I bet that's why the oldest is the way she is she dosent seem like she got alot of love, kisses, hugs or attention
I know this is old, but my goodness, I hope someone stepped in for those girls. The mother obviously has more than just sight problems. She seems very delayed in many ways, this was so heart breaking and disgusting. No child should live this way and it seems like social services failed this family.
Agree !!!😢so sad….its abuse !
Young Carers Association?!? That fact that they’ve had to create support groups for CHILDREN looking after their siblings speaks volumes. How is that okay?!?
If you can see enough to light a cigarette and pour your alcohol into a glass, you can see enough to change your children's diapers.
This is absolutely disgusting.
Lauren Kate what makes you think they're drinking alcohol? I didn't see it.
exactly. I wouldn't let a dog live in those conditions. clean up the mess. How can their welfare department allow this to be happing? You can afford beer and buts you can afford someone other than your own children to help with the house work.
Towards the end of shoes the dad drinking a beer... And prior to that one of the young kids had a beer can in their mouth.
I saw that also and I saw the filth on the floor could be a chocking hazard. Couldn't those parents show some love to the older ones? They could use it. It's so frustrating that nothing is being done to educate the parents. And STOP having babies.
Lauren Kate you don’t need sight for pouring.
I wish the parents would accept help… their daughter tried to commit suicide when she was 8 and their eldest daughter just looks so numb. I feel awful for them. The girls deserve to be kids… i hope the girls can build up the courage to ask for help from responsible adults.
She likes a big family because they can help out as they grow older. What are they doing now? Robbing their children of a life.
I feel so bad for these kids. He said he wants to prove that they can raise kids, but they're not raising the kids, the kids are raising them. Poor baby just sleeping on the floor because he is exhausted from crying all day. Wtf, these people need help.
Don't they have a place to put the baby??
BellRain Chan oh they do, they're just too lazy to pick him up and put him in his bed. So he just falls asleep wherever he can.
I said the same thing.
They have been offered help from social services. The parents won't accept more than 2 hours a week of cleaning. :(
MsCrazyPapers social svcs should have taken the children or insisted in care round the clock
She can't see anything yet she saw the baby on the floor and stepped over him?
They are both blind but yet keep finding each other well enough to keep getting pregnant.
Dee Bell
I was so outraged when I saw that. let's not forget they can also find cigarettes and lighters with no problem but can't take care of their kids
Black butterfly ikr that’s what I thought
they are not fair to the kids taking care of the little ones very unhealthy conditions. and they should let social services in because the girls dont have a life of thier own to enjoy.
you guys do know some blind people can see bright colored things, but i do agree they should take better care of there kids in more ways instead of making only the older girls do all the work 😐
they said shes not blind she has cardiacs and most blind people can see some stuff
Why hasn’t anyone called CPS on these parents or whatever it’s called in the U.K.?
what I don't get is why these people are having children? It's so insanely selfish of them. If you can't take care of kids, then don't have them. Also, if the father is capable of reading, he can also take care of the kids or the household. Being blind doesn't make you bedridden and incapable of doing anything. They are just lazy abusive parents, and they don't deserve the kids they have. These poor girls :(
Really bothered me watching him throw bread to that sweet baby on that dirty floor like he was a dog.
3O3 Brine right!! That was crazy
The babies hands holding the bottle even just before that you see him on the floor from afar and can see the dirt! And I thought the same with the bread. They’d have child services involved with them in a heartbeat in Wa State USA! And fibromyalgia is no excuse I have a list of ailments that’s just one, next is bulging discs with nerve impingement, 3 of 5 in my tailbone region, etc. your selfish to overdose!
Amy Kinville omg I just noticed that! This is just not right. These two oldest just don’t have a childhood. The oldest is so angry and the second oldest girl I feel is just lost. These poor babies don’t deserve this.
AND, she’s pregnant again??!!??
Yeah that is b******* like they should not have their kids at all they need to be taken into care
The saddest part about this documentary is that these parents think that they've "proved" that they can be parents, when in reality, their children have proven that they don't need their parents for necessities.
The scariest part is that Louise sounds like a psychopath. She smiled at Jenny trying to kill herself.
Jae Lynn well it's intresting but in my opinion it was really likeable that she would have been turned out a psychopath or sociopath or other similar disorders... older siblings usually have it harder, with parents like that I don't even imagine how horrible her mental enviroment was growing up. Jenny seemed fine at that time but she really needed to get away from that situation.
The fact that the sister was smiling when telling the story of her sister trying to commit suicide is disgusting!!! She even had a smirk telling the story of the girl next door hanging her self and her little sister finding her. Her behavior is Disturbing
I think she is not weird but in teenage children are very mean to each other, especially siblings.
I wonder how are these kids now? This is not only child abuse by their parents, but also by the goverment, this is ultrageus! I hope they are okay, the sadness these two older CHILDREN show is heartbreaking :(
Louisa has no emotion at all. She hits all the kids and feels no remorse at all. Mom saying the older girls give them a break because they have things to do. Give them a break? From what? Parenting? They had no business having kids!
I feel sorry for Jenny. She could do with some affection from her sister.
Right. Give them a break from what?? Drinking, smoking being lazy being emotionally available, not being responsible for your kids???? This is wrong.
When you've lived in a household like that, it's bound to have affects on you. I'm not saying that Louisa cant help doing what she does, I'm just saying that the way she's grown up, with basically no mental and physical support, is what led her to act this way. After all, she is still a child. I feel so bad for both them.
The poor babies are so dirty, this is a shame, they all should be removed from there care, blindness doesn't equal laziness, these ppl are just lazy
YES 100%!!
You are so right I am so stressed out about it it's like a bad train wreck I don't want to watch this but I cannot stop watching it because if I had anything that I could do with my power I would do it if I can pull up to the house right now I would do it if I wasn't all the way in Kentucky
This may be the most repulsive video I have ever seen!! These people should never have had children EVER!!!!! I'm so infuriated watching this.
Honestly though, one of the parts that stood out to me most was when the little girl (Jenny) was changing her brother's diaper. She's just a little girl so obviously I don't blame her but he's not wiped properly and that can lead to infections and so many problems downstairs. I feel so sorry for Jenny, she's in so much pain it's so heartbreaking to watch her talk about suicide at such a young age.
Yup exactly!
“My mom and dad sat me down when I was 3 and told me I need to help out” this is why some people should not be allowed to reproduce
There needs to be a follow-up!!! 🙏🏻
I just want to hug the little girl, never let her go, take her in with me, and just let her be a child!! I'd love to be a person she could talk to whenever she wants about whatever she wants ❤❤
This is the type of couple who should NOT have children. The mother is smoking and knows she's pregnant? And that poor baby sleeping on the floor and they leave him there, the older siblings doing all the work, ugh so many things about this.
And they're smoking in the house, too...
I’ve left my child in the floor sleeping many times when they’ve fallen asleep. But my floor never looked like that.. they have lice.. watch again.. all they do is scratch their heads ..
@@hometownhoney3219 agree with all and that's exactly what i thought! Was lice! All of them scratching their heads all the time. 😣
Did I hear right, that those babies don't get their nappies changed till the two oldest get home???? 😭
Selfishness at its finest these two🤬
.. Yes, can't change nappies, and yet can make coffee for them two and have a "break" like 2 lovers on their peak of honeymoon! Disgusting! That wife Amanda is just getting into my nerve! And the husband was trying to stand still like a macho hero of the family, while his youngest baby was crawling underneath a garbage bin!
I want to know who that obviously irresponsible physician is omg. They told her to try again wtf
Dad poured that can of beer into the mug just fine.. and he can’t change diapers all day! 🤬
These people are selfish.
@@playgurlxtm and mum has no trouble smoking!
The guy is overwhelmed but gets things done taking care giving to mom awareness of pain causing stress
This is horrifying!!! I just want to hug these kids. They don’t deserve this life.
Amanda: if we are busy with other things, we ask them (the girls) to help us and give us a break
Me: a break from WHAT???
They're in denial like crazy
IK! LIKE SITTITTING
Right
All the banging they're doing lol
Can(t you guess it? My god... What a couple... 😠
So no-ones gonna talk about how the oldest sister grinned when she said Jenny probably tried to kill herself that literally add me cry because ain’t no way
I'm so sad for these kids,especially the girls. Their childhood has been taken. There is resentment too. Why the parents keep having more is beyond me. 😢
when the girls are old enough to leave, i bet they will. hopefully they have already, but sure when this was made. its incredibly irresponsible to keep producing kids when you cant take care of them. and the state or whatever even offered help but the parents refused. such selfish and honestly disgusting parents
I’m somebody with a visual impairment and a teacher of mine is totally blind and had a family, they can take care of the children just fine! Being blind is no excuse for being horrible parents！
I agree I’ve seeen people with disabilities have a lot of kids and take care of their children better than this
That’s cool
Second hand smoke is unhealthy for children and pregnancy.
The mother is obviously not only blind, she is mentally disabled as well. Both of these parents are abusive and neglectful. Very sad.
Sorry the critics r right the baby sleeping on floor like dog
The little boy is screaming while having his diaper changed because his bottom is so gaulded from sitting in his own mess all day until his sister came home from school to change him. This breaks my heart.
Its child cruelty and I'm surprised its been allowed to go on all this time without the authorities stepping in,
The whole is a mess,the girls seem so unhappy ,its a grim place for the kids to grow in and something horrible can happen in these circumstances soon .
That boy is too big to still be in diapers.
The mom wiping him really got me 😩 Really? The same wipe! 😩
Bless This Mess poor little boy. Broke my heart seeing that 😥
While i have no problem with the blind having children but not at the cost of enslaving their oldest children. Aren't there any laws there to protect these children???
These children are abused and neglected. They should be taken away from these “parents” immediately
”The parents are fiercely independent and refuse to accept help” - clearly they are not fiercely independent if they need to rely so heavily on a 9-year-old and a 12-year-old! Forcing your kids to do your work for you is not being independent, it is being irresponsible. They should make sure to get outside help so that the kids can be kids. The two older ones should be able to be regular big sisters to their younger siblings and help out, but they shouldn't have to take on parental responsibility.
Yes yes yes and yes. Shame on them.
A lot of blind people are able to take care of their own children.. this is disappointing that this show would film this but not take action.. these children deserve better. Child services should be contacted if the parents are unable to take care of the children. They can help find resources to help the family. And if the parents aren’t willing to put the work in then they will find someone who is willing to care for these kids.
these parents can't make decisions
Jenny literally tried to kill herself and they asked the parents what they thought of that and all they had to say is “i DoNt KnOW whY sHE’d dO tHat” makes me wanna cry I just hope they all are ok now.
Can we say these parents have a sociopath with the oldest sister, she said with a smile when she chocked out her sister. She thought it was funny that the girl next door hung herself... scary
@@butterflywhispersparanormal it's horible that their reson for wanting more kids is to help themselves in the future, and their stubborn pride in not accepting help has gone to the point of harming the child. Notice how the mother only asked if her son was OK when the interviewer asked her if she wanted to check on him.
Makena Walker the stress of having all this responsibility to take care of the house, caused her to do this. Wake up parents. They should have talked to her about it and helped her .
Butterfly Whispers Paranormal I know that laughing/smiling is a way of trying to deal with it or not knowing what to say, I also think she’s been conditioned to think that’s it’s not a big of a deal
@@mh56487 I feel the mother has other things wrong. I dont think mentally she gets it and that's why her mo. Said no kids. I think her husband is causing his kids and wife harm.
This was made in 2007, any updates?
No child should have to live like this!
this is one of the saddest videos I've ever seen..
I agree!! The place is filthy...changing babies on the carpet without a protector blanket.....fuck....I want to scream
PeachKeki This is one of the saddest videos I have ever watched as well because it portrays blind people as helpless, incapable and stupid. I am totally blind and partially deaf, and I go to work every day. As a matter of fact, I work two jobs. I’m also in school full-time. I take classes online. I can’t believe how stupid these people are. They make the rest of the blind community looks so bad. And the sad thing is, they’re going to be a lot of people who watch this documentary and really believe we are helpless and stupid because of these so-called parents
this is abuse! something needs to be done!!!!!
PeachKeki aad
mary wolfe agree! dear God where is the childrens aide in that country!!???
Why on earth did they keep having child after child?? Seriously, how dare they?
They are FRIGGIN CLUELESS.
I think they have intellectual disabilities, they don't seem to understand why what they're doing is concerning and not normal
So they can take care of the parents when parents get old so says the mom. Selfish and irresponsible. Hope all these kids got some sort of help from social services. Parents are lazy baby making machines.
All about the government checks..... horrible parents!
IT SOULD BE AGAINST THE LAW
It is people like this who help to create the negative stereotypes of disabled people.
Wow, the parents keep having children so when they get older they will be taken care of. This is sad and abusive to those children.
You know that mother wouldn’t of checked on Matt’s lip if the interviewer didn’t bring it up
"are you gonna check in his lip?"
"N-... yes. I'll have to go. and check. on his lip."
you can tell that was an entirely new concept for her, she only did that because she was being filmed.
Why do you want a big family they ask her “For more kids to take care of us when we get older”. THAT said it all to me!!
The “mother” wasn’t even going to check on the child’s lip until the reporter asked her if she was going to! All the mother does is sit and play with her hair.
..... and smoke cigarettes
.....and talk about having more babies.... Ugh
And smoke.
That mother, lord have mercy, I curse just watching her, she sit there in a different world, unconcern with her kids, not even getting up to place the pacifier in the child's mouth on the couch.
I THINK THE MM IS MORE THAN BLIND-A BIT OFF IN THE HEAD..
It’s obvious the parents never showed the oldest daughter affection and just had the kids so they will later be providers for them in old age.
When you love the person you're caring for makes it easier
Out of all the kids I feel the worst for the 9 year old. She seems to be the one who’s not only doing things for the kids but also showing them some sort of affection when she gets none in return from her older sister and her parents. And on top of that she’s hit by her sister but she’s so sweet to her younger siblings unlike the eldest.
Mariam Abdullah there's something wrong with the eldest
The eldest has been taking care of kids since she was 3, and you’re criticising how she acts as if it’s not a result of being of never being treated like a child.
As the eldest, i am also distant from my family. My parents are busy and so my siblings need me, and usually come to me for affection. And i get it, i really do, but sometimes it gets exhausting especially when you never really got affection yourself.
Maria B DAMN MARIA...... I AGREE!
Plus, she tried to kill herself. It's too much!
Those parents should be in jail for neglect, using their children as slave labor . Nobody gets so much as a kiss or a hug how horrible is this family, those poor children. My heart was breaking from this entire show.
Right and they are dirty from eating off the floor. No plates to save on water but smokes and drinks beer? Such a shame. The kids need a better living conditions for sure.. soooo sad
I agree at least these people should be prosecuted. Those children need a life as children it is insane that the system does nothing to protect these poor kids
""""""It give us a break""""
The father can’t see well enough to take care of his kids but he can sure pour himself a beer without spilling a drop
They shouldn't have any children. The children shouldn't have to take care of their baby siblings. Why didn't the mother tied her tubes yet?!? These children deserve so much better.
While the daughters busy to take care of their siblings, the parents just smoking and chill in front of the house.
SICK
The only thing I keep noticing is how dirty the little ones are😥...and how dirty the house is...I can smell it through the phone😭😥😥
Patricia Morrison
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I AGREE
Julie Sprik STOP they are doing so well they are blind they deserve to live and be happy just like you do they wanted to have kids and they did
@@trayatate8478 Just because you're blind it doesn't mean you get to abuse your children and make them do literally everything. You don't get to smoke and sit around while your house is filthy disgusting and you force your children to become parents.
This whole family needs deep counseling. These "parents" are horrible. Someone should step in and take these children to some place safe. This whole video makes me sick to my stomach!!!! Louise has some severe psychological problems. Smiling that her sister tried to kill herself. What damage these parents cause.
I hope Ryan does get to go to university. I’m sure this young boy could meet up with friends. His mother doesn’t need 24 hr care. I had a back injury years ago and I had 5 children. Yes they did help, but they were not carers.
He can pour a beer and light a cigarette just fine, why can't he make a bottle or change a diaper?
Maria Cabral-Felix he doesn’t need to, they have kid carers for that
That's what I just commented ! CPS stepped in 4 hour's after this aired. I don't get why anyone making this didn't make that call. I guess it's all about the money how sad.
@@AfallinAngel Or perhaps they filmed everything for evidence. One has to be impartial when filming to truly show the reality of the situation.
@@supernatural492 That also
@@AfallinAngel what happened to the kids?
"I value family so much " smokes while pregnant. Yeah okay sure😒
shahnee right?! Also, forcing their daughters to parent EVERYONE in that filthy house! Those poor children.. dirty diapers, food thrown on the floor, and on and on...
Paul: Jenny was at risk of losing her place as a "young carer" if she didn't help out.
The whole reason Jenny stopped helping and even attempted SUICIDE was because she was sick to death of being a young carer. At 8 years old she didn't care about the 2 hours a week of play, she needed to be allowed to be a kid every day. I can't believe her father was confused about that. Or maybe he intentionally overlooked it so he wouldn't have to face the reality that he was abusing and neglecting his girls.
As a kid who had to do this I feel truly awful for the oldest daughter for when she grows up, parentification is one of the most traumatizing things a kid can go through. I know this may sound harsh but if you’re a parent who can’t take care of one kid on your own, don’t bring more into your family for your kids to take care of you’re just taking away the oldest child’s childhood. I hope she gets the help she needs
Thank you Erin, for your comments and empathy. I’m the eldest of 10 in a dysfunctional family. You put it in a nutshell. At 47.10 in the doco Louisa said the same thing as I did at the same age. Today I am a grandmother the happiest time of my life.
I hope Louisa experiences the joys of motherhood, she has suffered the workload.
It doesn't sound as harsh as neglecting and abusing your kids by neglect. They should not have any kids. Why did social services not take their kids away? And why did someone in the hospital tell them to keep trying to have kids?It is mind boggling.
I just saw one British couple on YT yesterday, who had a child, and the court took it away from them. They were recovering alcoholics who lost the other children to the system, but they didn't get a chance to raise this one, even though they tried to get better.
@@babycakes8434probably because this documentary is like 15 years old at least
In my case the older moved out asap and everything fell onto me, & was never ending .I fully agree, it’s awful
Ugh. They little girl is changing a diaper while her parents are outside chilling. Ugh. This makes me angry
Me 2 I know blind people who work take care of there kids and clean house these people are just taking advantage of people's sympathy
They changed the diaper on the floor with nothing underneath the child which is very unsanitary.
this 15 year old shows signs of serious emotional disturbance. Bless her heart for helping, but obviously she did'nt get enough affection so thus doesn't show the little ones affection. She takes it out on her sister who is the other half of the help. This whole family situation needs intervention NOW.
She didn't even get a chance to be a kid because her parents dumped the responsibility on her! That's terrible.
Shes 12
this was 13 years ago so the oldest would be 25 now or 26 (my age). I hope she has turned out ok. It's clear she has some socipath signs but hopefully she'll find her way out of it
@@lucyavarda1742 I completely agree. Hopefully, they were able to get away from those parents and got some psychological help.
She looks at least 15 in the video, and acts older. But she's only 12.