Parents back C4 show reviled as 'child abuse'

Parents back C4 show reviled as 'child abuse'

Parents of children who took part in a controversial Channel 4 reality TV show have defended the programme, which was condemned this weekend as "child abuse" by welfare experts and psychologists. The makers of Boys and Girls Alone, a four-part series that follows 10 boys and 10 girls who are left to fend for themselves for two weeks in separate Cornish cottages, are facing calls for the programme to be taken off the air after some of the children, aged between eight and 12, were shown crying and fighting.