Just started watching 2012 Australia Wife Swap and I cannot fathom how some people are living. The tipping point was the King & Zantey family episode. The father who sits on the couch all day long and does nothing and actually leaves the responsibility to feed his 2 year old little boy, up to his 9 year old little girl. That is crazy! This alone would have children services at their door here in the U. S. A. Also the Mansell's and the Clark families. Just the fact alone that they don't make their children do homework, I've never heard of that. If kids don't do their homework here in the states then the parents are held liable and could do jail time. Australia must be very lenient about that. Also you can be the nicest person in the world and live in a pigsty. That is not at all healthy clean your home. Although cleaning your home excessively to an ocd spectrum, this is the time when you might want to get some help for yourself.
Addition: Just watched the Duncan & Walker families and oh my!! How in the world can what the Walker family do even be legal?!?! To deny your children of an education is mortifying and selfish! Those 8 children living on that dirty bus like life is one big vacation and playing with rocks and trees all day doing absolutely nothing. I feel so bad for them. That's not parenting. Those kids need a proper home and a proper education. How will any of them survive in this world? What jobs are out there for them if they can't read and write. This isn't the medieval times. If the parents want to travel on a bus, that's fine wait until their children are grown, after you have done your job as parents. Or don't become parents. Them kids didn't ask to be born.
Addition: Just watched the Duncan & Walker families and oh my!! How in the world can what the Walker family do even be legal?!?! To deny your children of an education is mortifying and selfish! Those 8 children living on that dirty bus like life is one big vacation and playing with rocks and trees all day doing absolutely nothing. I feel so bad for them. That's not parenting. Those kids need a proper home and a proper education. How will any of them survive in this world? What jobs are out there for them if they can't read and write. This isn't the medieval times. If the parents want to travel on a bus, that's fine wait until their children are grown, after you have done your job as parents. Or don't become parents. Them kids didn't ask to be born.
