Struggle Street

[rabbitearbandicoot]

so, who's watching this show tonight at 8:30 on SBS?

if it's not cancelled that is. The people involved have tried to get it wiped because it represents them in an unfavourable light.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

i dont know anyone who found the

documentary entertaining   

the common reaction was -

something needs to be done. 

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Did you watch it?

Did it teach you anything you didn't already know?

Did it change any of your opinions about people who live in the way those people were depicted?

Did it offer any suggestions as to what should or could be done to help those people?

[icyfroth]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

i dont know anyone who found the

documentary entertaining   

the common reaction was -

something needs to be done. 

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Did you watch it?

Did it teach you anything you didn't already know?

Did it change any of your opinions about people who live in the way those people were depicted?

Did it offer any suggestions as to what should or could be done to help those people?

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I found it very depressing to see how low ppl can by brought by drugs, alcohol, uninhibited sex, and ...welfare.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Here is a very enlightening comment from Michael Koziol in the Sydney Morning Herald.

The Kennedy family are still struggling – "battling through day by day", in their words – and fielding countless interviews as the public feasts on their formerly private lives.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/struggle-street-what-happened-to-ice-addict-corey-2...

[icyfroth]

I liked the way they still did their best to keep their family together though.

Their son Tristan who'd sustained brain damage from a bike accident by not wearing a helmet. He was cute lol.

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@*julia*2010 wrote:

i dont know anyone who found the

documentary entertaining   

the common reaction was -

something needs to be done. 

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Did you watch it?

Did it teach you anything you didn't already know?

Did it change any of your opinions about people who live in the way those people were depicted?

Did it offer any suggestions as to what should or could be done to help those people?

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unfortunately, nothing can be done for a lot of them. Throw money at them - they'll buy more drugs. You can't educate them about the evils - they'll just laugh at you. Sorry to say, but some of them are just a waste of space - no matter WHAT is done for them, they'll still relapse into their filth.

[punch*drunk]

I didnt watch it so I dont know if these people are all in public housing but I personally think that can be part of the problem. They put  whole lot of public houses in one area when they'd be better off scattering them around. Its also incredibly difficult for single non-working mums to get private rentals so they end up in public housing having to raise their kids in that environment. They say it takes a village to raise a child but if your "village" is full of drug addicts, crime and welfare reliance what hope have the kids got?

[happyroo_bunji]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

I didn't see anyone starving or suffering malnutrition, many of them looked over fed with their priorities wrong.

Lot of the people who are grossly overweight because of bad diet do suffer from "malnutrition" = they do not get all the nutrients they need, and they look unhealthy.  That would be easily fixed, good fresh food is cheaper than eating junk.  But people who grew up eating junk know nothing else; it is said that people's taste develops in the early childhood.  They are hooked on softdrinks and other empty calories stuff. 

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You should read this, yes it's US based but I feel it's still relevant.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-develop-growing-up-poor/

WARNING: contains swear words

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@punch*drunk wrote:

I didnt watch it so I dont know if these people are all in public housing but I personally think that can be part of the problem. They put  whole lot of public houses in one area when they'd be better off scattering them around. Its also incredibly difficult for single non-working mums to get private rentals so they end up in public housing having to raise their kids in that environment. They say it takes a village to raise a child but if your "village" is full of drug addicts, crime and welfare reliance what hope have the kids got?

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they tried that in Bidwill and a couple of other areas - all it did was devalue the private houses. There are also HC houses that have been bought by the renters or others and some of them are nicely done up, but quite a few get damaged, broken into continually.

{edit: Also, when we built a house, the HC tried to build 20 or so HC houses attached to the estate in which we bought. Thankfully they canned the idea - it would have made the area we escaped to just as bad as the one we escaped from.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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unfortunately, nothing can be done for a lot of them. Throw money at them - they'll buy more drugs. You can't educate them about the evils - they'll just laugh at you. Sorry to say, but some of them are just a waste of space - no matter WHAT is done for them, they'll still relapse into their filth.

Why do you think that is? Is it because they have some genetic defect that makes them that way? Is it a genetic defect that is also  common among Aborigines, first Nation people in the US and African Americans-  and is common amongst most groups of slum ghetto dwellers world wide?

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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unfortunately, nothing can be done for a lot of them. Throw money at them - they'll buy more drugs. You can't educate them about the evils - they'll just laugh at you. Sorry to say, but some of them are just a waste of space - no matter WHAT is done for them, they'll still relapse into their filth.

Why do you think that is? Is it because they have some genetic defect that makes them that way? No.  Is it a genetic defect that is also  common among Aborigines, first Nation people in the US and African Americans-  and is common amongst most groups of slum ghetto dwellers world wide? I think you have that the wrong way around - it's common amongst ghetto dwellers because the same type of people (generally speaking) are attracted to those ghettos through circumstances and then some don't do anything to get out - generation after generation. You CAN get out - we are proof of that. Yes, I was lucky, but, there's an old saying ' the harder you try / work the luckier you get.'

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