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[MUSIC]

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This is the Woods family.

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A British stepfamily from Grantham.

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Mom Lucy works nights at a local college.

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[INAUDIBLE][br]>> She has two children from a previous

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marriage.

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Twelve year old Caitlin and[br]Billy, who's ten.

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Dad Steve is a fireman who works shifts.

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[NOISE] And then,[br]there's the head of the household.

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>> [NOISE][br]>> Two year old Charlie.

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[MUSIC]

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>> This tantruming tot[br]literally rules the roost.

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He screams and shouts to get his own way.

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Fits out at his family and[br]throws aside anything in his path.

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>> Whatever Charlie wants, Charlie gets.

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And quite often,

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he gets things that he doesn't even[br]know he wants just to shut him up.

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>> Shut him up.

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>> What do you want?

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Do you [INAUDIBLE]?

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Do you want something nice?

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Shall we swap seats?

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Do you want to go to the gym?

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>> No, [INAUDIBLE][br]>> [INAUDIBLE] get you dressed?

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If Charlie wants the TV off,[br]we'll turn the TV off.

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>> No.

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>> Stop it.

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If he wants the lights off,[br]he'll have the lights off.

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In fact, quite often he'll have the lights[br]off, the fire off, and the TV off.

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And we'll just sit in the dark until he[br]decides [LAUGH] what we're gonna do next,

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isn't he?

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>> Yeah.

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>> It's basically like he controls mom and[br]Steve, me and Billy.

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[MUSIC]

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>> All right,[br]he wants me to leave him on the floor.

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[MUSIC]

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>> With Charlie in charge,[br]every day is a frustrating battle.

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[MUSIC]

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Meals take hours as they try[br]to persuade Charlie to eat.

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Getting clothes on or[br]off can be a daylong struggle.

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And bathtime is all-out war.

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[MUSIC]

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Every exhausting day ends with a two-hour[br]struggle just to get Charlie to bed.

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Only for[br]it all to kickoff again during the night.

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[SOUND][br]>> We go and fetch him, and

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bring him sort of straight into our bed.

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Quite often he'll kick one of us out,[br]won't he?

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>> Yeah,[br]he doesn't usually like us both in there.

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[SOUND][br]>> Obviously it does affect our sex life.

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There is no sexual relationship, or such.

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>> It's not just Lucy and Steve's[br]relationship that Charlie's destroying.

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The two older children, Billy and[br]Caitlin, are suffering too.

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>> I do feel left out,[br]because before he was born, it sort

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included me and Billy in all of[br]the stuff that Charlie does now.

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>> I can't do my homework because[br]Charlie always takes my book off me and

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then steals my pen and writes on my book.

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>> It's not fair that they're missing out.

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Missing out on things because we[br]give all our time to him because

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we're scared of him.

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It's not fair on them.

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[SOUND][br]>> I think we've got to the point now

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where we need somebody to come in.

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We need this nanny to come in, and[br]it's got a bit too big for us.

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>> Enough's enough, yeah,[br]we need it stopping.

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>> No, it's not a game.

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Stop now.

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[INAUDIBLE] Nicky!

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Nicky!

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[MUSIC]

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Stop, stop.

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>> Ow.

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>> Hey![br]>> If we don't get his

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behavior sorted before he[br]starts going into September,

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I am quite worried that he's gonna be[br]excluded from every school in this borough