Teenage Girls Grow Up Poor In The UK | Poverty Documentary | Absolute Documentaries
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- Over 300,000 teenagers claim benefits and 1 in 5 youths in Britain are unemployed. This absolute documentary follows 3 teenage girls Amber who is 17 and pregnant, Bridie, 17 and can't stay out of trouble, and Shelby, 17 who relies on benefits. They are all struggling to get by for many different reasons. They are caught by a disappearing childhood and an unknown future, this is their story.
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Wait, did Amber say she was thinking about what’s best for her and the unborn baby when she left her Dad’s house because he didn’t have carpet on the floors and never had food, but smokes cigarettes????
Accent in Glasgow is crazy. I had to turn on captions to fully understand
I have difficulty understanding their English. I'm from the US, where there are several regional accents within the country. My comment is by no means negative.
Same!
Same..even the CC couldn't understand them. You here people from the UK speak about how people in the states pronounce words.; some of these folks sound like they have a very congested nose and a mouth full of cotton. To make matters worse, I am from the south!🤷♀
I can understand the girl from Glasgow much easier than I can some of these other British accents, maybe because I have worked with Scots in the U.S. And I agree they sound congested a lot of the time. The only accent I absolutely need captions for is Welsh. Maybe because they are accustomed to speaking Welsh and almost have the equivalent of a foreign accent.
I'm American. I understood them just fine.
They may go hungry but by gosh they will have cigarettes
That always seems to be the case.
For stress
A cigarette is 5 calories
Right?!
Obviously you do not acknowledge the addictive aspects of tobaco,leaving many among us powerless
Wish we could have an update on them!
"I'm 50 years old, I've done my bit!" WHOA!!! Nothing there to boast about. I'm 57 and expect to work for at least another 10 years and my grandparents worked until their mid-70's!
40 years to go!
Wow, that’s deep.
What's happening to the UK? I live in Norway and think that there are regular reports of increasing poverty in the UK.
13:44 Pregnant and smoking cigarettes? 👎
The UK and USA have been waging class war against the working class since the 80s. That's really all there is to it.
@@JD-vj4go ok
And alcohol
@@fredflinstone6601many turn out alright tho dont they? they probably also come from alc and cigs pre birth. Probably nothing worse now their genes already accustumed
Shelby seems to be on the right track.
This documentary is originally at least 8 yrs old , i remember watchin in my school days. M glad its re uploaded
I'm curious how these teens are now doing as adults 🤔
@@soupwifey me too
@@soupwifeyis going to be interesting, with the present we’ll have tons of follow ups later in the future with many sensations n vids like this
I reMEMBER the beginning of this doc- I don’t think I finished it… urgh I reaaaally want updates…but most of all- I want the girls (and all living skinny- myself included) to FEEL HAPPY BE HEALTHY and have SHELTER….
*SKINT
These kids really aren't any different than some kids in the United states that are in bad family environments
They are adults at 16 which makes things much harder for them. There is a difference. Even though many teens here cannot get jobs or work decent hours to sustain a healthy income in order to pay for the costs of living at 16 because labor laws, we also are not treated as adults at 16 which when it comes to the legal system that makes a huge difference for kids who have multiple instances of crime on their records before the age of 18. It's also rare to find a young single mom with no income to be rejected for benefits or aka here in the U.S food stamps and welfare. But since the rise of inflation that has changed greatly since now the system is being flooded with people signing up for these programs and now its getting harder to be approved for help than it was 10 years ago.
Amen. Socio-Economics DOES PLAY A LARGE FACTOR! I been done trying to spread awareness…(I’m NOT condoning every choice of others in these conditions but I DO HAVE EMPATHY and compassion!)…. And via the internet we are learning life is NOT JUST the programming is oldheads were subject to from our limited source of ‘entertainment’/Programmings on the telly at the cinema….
there are kids/teens with 16. no one should be forced to act like an adult at that age. and even when you are 18 and actually legally an adult, you are still an older teen. adulthood comes with experience, not a number. @@millennialodyssey5956
Hopefully, all of them, maybe someday get their "success story documentary" in this channel. God bless.
BEST COMMENT!!! IM ROOTING FOR THESE GIRLS!!!
Shelby got knocked up soon after this video; how is she doing now, I hope well. She's the only one with the right attitude so far
The houses look beautiful from outside, but in the inside they are horrible.
If the girls could get training to be a Certified Nursing Attendant or training to be a Practical Nurse and control their reproductive health, it would be very financially helpful quickly for them. They could safely build financial and emotional security to climb the ladder. It worked for me when I was a teenage mom. with a microscopic safety net.
@@callmekirkland8
To give aid and comfort is a universal language . Girls need to be taught to be in full control of their physical and emotional self. They need to learn how not to live like a small insect caught in a Ant Lion nest entry. They need to be reinforced with attainment of personal Control of Self😊
...like the Janet Jackson song "Control"; or women that are featured in FT or the business section of nytimes, BBC, Irish Times, Algazeera, etc.
Girls need to know how to scramble up and out of the societal pitfalls that might lurk around them.
This is True.
@@callmekirkland8 I can assure you that they are perfectly understandable to the folks actually living here! Plenty of folks who speak with broad Yorkshire or Glaswegian accents work as doctors, nurses and other allied medical roles in the UK.
You nailed it
my family told me I was middle class
it sounds like you are not in the UK. I am not either but I get the impression there is limited social mobility. classism in the UK is very entrenched and things like accents signal to others one's class.
Good on Shelby for not wanting to live her life on benefits
I think shes the only responsible one, The most irestposbile has to be brydie.
I wish we could get an update on them.
There is always cigarettes, booze and big screen televisions but I have never seen one book in any of these houses. While they’re sitting around, maybe they could crack a few books to try to better their situation. Libraries are free.
I was thinking the very same thing😮
It's a class of people that exist everywhere. We have them here in the US, too. Their priorities are completely selfish. If they have "no money," how do these people afford expensive habits and pricey shoes?
You can only read if everything else in your life is fine, and you're relaxed. I don't see any of them able to do that
These young women need a female mentor in their life. Another woman to show them what is possible.
Do you think a male role model, like a father, would be just as beneficial.
Girls with this state of mind sometimes clash more with mothers than fathers.
What they need is fatherhood. They allready had too much female mentorship in their lives and it brought ghem nothing.
they need proper fathers to sort them out
Oh thanks for your armchair solution we’ll get right on that for ya
@@KLRN-qc7jp they haven’t had enough tbh. Of either.
Me: playing with my iPhone 12’s Face ID
Them: getting a broken bed fixed on their birthday
Truly painful to watch. Hopefully they get a better life
If you're spoiled then why don't you donate to these less fortunate girls. If it's as "painful" as you claim.
Having more than others doesn't mean that you are spoiled. She commented on her feelings of compassion. She is just living within her or her parents means.
@@sidebite2533theres no donators, no organisations that actually help. Many are scams, in the eu it’s seen as a luxury to donate, so we push it to guilt trip, but that money goes tot the organizers
@@xladder3972'donors'. not donators
Pregnant and smoking, smh
And was she drinking 🍸???
Those poor babies to be raised by these losers
Just like multiple generations before her.
Cmon dad. You have a beautiful child there in shelby. Be there for her please.
I had happy tears in my eyes when the family and neighbor donated the cooker and furniture. 👍🏽In America. Our cookers are called stoves and they are quite large in comparison to the ones I always see in the UK. I'm not thin. Big stove, big meals=big me. 🤷🏻♀️🤦♀️
I’ve got family living in the US now, and the huge number of seriously obese people astonished me, but then again “ eat all you can” type of buffet outlets and diners are serving huge meals, which makes them value for money but does nothing for the nations health.
I also noticed most places have tiny refrigerators so you can’t amass piles of food.
The size of your stove or fridge has nothing to do with your size. Also the UKs obesity rates are the highest in Europe, not as high as the US but still pretty bad. People need to stop eating junk and fast food. Lean protein and veg are the way to go
@@carolerice5944Agreed but herein lies the problem:
A lean chicken or roast and whole veggies and fruits cost more than cheap hotdogs and a bag of BBQ potato chips (crisps.) When it's someone else's money (welfare aka on the dole), there's a lot more where that came from so let's buy junk and buy it in individual packets instead of a larger bag that costs half as much per serving.
I have a big stove and only 2 of us are a little heavy, out of 17 people in my immediate family. And we're only heavy from steroids not our stove 😂😂 I mean steroids due to serious illness, not the street kind
This channel is amazing.
You know your a winner when you prefer one court over another.
you’re not your
belonging to or associated with the person or people that the speaker is addressing.
"what is your name?"
2.
belonging to or associated with any person in general.
"the sight is enough to break your heart"
@@gr8hnd10
@@gr8hnd10 Sorry i speak English not American.
It's a day trip
@@sianwarwick633 Picnic type?
Shelby has grit. Beautiful young lady. She will succeed.
You mean the trashy one who pulled her pants down in the beginning?
I doubt she will given that she got pregnant and probably has a child by now; sad.
@@tattie278 that's unfortunate.
16:24 seeing Shelby care for her bedding… after learning she purposefully earns the same at a placement as benefits- I’m rooting for Shelby…
(Albeit I’ve come to learn NOT to almost die working myself to the point of critically ill for less than the poverty line- I feel Shelby working for a sense of purpose…hoping I make sense here 😥)
Thank goodness for [CC]
It struck me as sad when she said" they stare at me like I did something wrong" like she doesn't understand that a young lady her age shouldn't be worried about a baby, she should be getting educated and hanging out and having fun with friends and finding work
She knows that but it doesn't make her a criminal. Looking at her in sympathy, and looking at her like scum are too different looks
I can't understand a word they say.
Their English is flawed!
Turn on the captions and it helps. I’m from the states and I wouldn’t be able to watch it without captions.
@@galacticunicorn6319 imagine me...english is not my first language !
@@Maya.6868 I’m sorry! You really have no idea what’s going on or what they say. Some of the caption are wrong also, it’s just barely correct enough to get some context.
@@galacticunicorn6319 That's ok, there are different accents and slangs everywhere on the planet. I'm French Canadian I'm know our accent is difficult to understand even for French visitors ! I'm just getting used to the UK accent. English in north america is easier to understand (for me)
Change one woman/girls life now to help future generations. Honestly the UK government need to keep up the conditions of their homes. Hope the Royals are watching this.😡
the uk govt should clean some random hobo's home?
Shelby has a good head on her shoulders. She will go far I have in her.
They just said she got pregnant right after the show aired.🤦🏽
Shelbys seems determined and I really hope she is doing ok. I am very interested to know how she is doing.
Shelby looks like an actress
The cooker had no power cable. Bless 'er. And she's working for nothing.
It's amazing how many helpless people the west has created.
I never understood why these girls want to get stuck with babies so young. That was the furthest thing from my mind when I was their age, and I'm still childless! Just never wanted them.🙄
Beverly, girls who have/want babies so young are in emotional need for unconditional love. A girl without strong love and an emotional support from their fathers look for it in other males (boyfriends) and a baby is an emotional tie to the father of the baby. The baby will love its mother unconditionally. It's sad for everyone. No child should be born to fulfill a need.
And I am commending you for knowing yourself and being true to yourself. Not having children is a choice and if you know you don't want them, then you aren't having kids because of pressure from society. You're awesome!
I believe they get more money from the system.
Omg can I please get Shelby the stove she needs?
But the documentary is 10 years old.
I’m sure they’re people in your own community you can find to help out 🤷🏻♀️
Sure. Donate to a British charity that you're sure provides these items to people who need them. Or write a check to Her Majesty's Inland Revenue or Customs and Excise Taxes. Or visit UK and contribute that way.
I don't get why we as a society have not come up with basic living for everyone, food housing. This is just stupid how we have organized life and society. Struggling over and over for basics: food and home.
Make it more affordable and you won’t have the issue… I got a few items at the store, milk, bread, bananas, yogurt and a few bags of chips, all of them on clearance markdowns for $60… a normal size jar of mayo on sale is $5 now… there is no excuse… rent in our area is over $1000 for a studio apartment or single room to rent
Yet the royals wearing designer clothes, trips all to the expense of their citizens. And still they want to belong to the kingdom!🤔🙄
That’s so awful ! 1,000 for a studio apartment?! I had a three bedroom, two bathroom beautiful apartment and it was $750 a month. Paris, Tn. Beautiful town. Lovely location. Great small town folks
I can’t put my finger on it, but Amber is really weird. Plus she constantly whispers like a small child. I would expect that from a 4 year old.
I wish I could understand half of what she is saying. Documentary makers should put subtitles on Northerner accents?
I live in the US and miss home, but it looks grim as anything.
Can anyone tell me what music is playing in the background? I love that England sound. You don't hear it much here in America.
Where are subtitles?! They are incomprehensible 🤯
They do have strong accents....Bridie's is quite full on with all those "thee and thous" but I love it...it's so old fashioned sounding.
is it not a legal requirement in scotland to provide tenants with some form of cooking apparatus?
Bank card doesn't work with an empty account
Someone NEEDS ANGER MANAGEMENT classes.🤨 Shelby is seeing what it’s like to work and get self WORTH, instead of sitting around just relying on benefits by just “pretending” to WANT to work. And what it takes to make your OWN money instead of relying on handouts (entitlement). Hope she did well in life.
I thought I was watching Daisy's sisters from downtown Abbey. I swear there must be a lower class gene that's passed down. Education is free in the UK plus NHS yet still live and speak like in a Dickens novel. It's the same here in Canada only its much easier here to live.send them to america my parents home for a year in the former colony. They would be crying.
Very sad :(
Mack Donals
There are no fathers or partners to be seen! Surely they could be found.
budgets & shopping needs2 be taught in early school...
I learned so many sad facts watching this. Minimum wage in the UK is 4 pounds? Wow. I thought it was bad in the States. These girls living on 28 pounds a week? omg that's a tight budget! Rooms don't come with carpet and the bare boards are... sketchy. There's mold (they call it damp, we call it mold) everywhere. It looks like poverty is just as bad in the UK as it is in the US. Late stage capitalism... I'm betting it's even worse with covid on the streets now. Wish there was an update. Amber will get it together for her baby, I feel that. Shelby... a baby on the way now. Bridie.... she's got a tough row to hoe. I wish them all well. Life is a struggle.
i think her being 17 is the main reason of that. so it's not 4 pounds, well probably it wasn't even 4 pounds whenever this was filmed.
think it is 15 pounds an hour. I do not know where you got 4 pound from.
Try poverty in India ...its a worse version of UK poverty.
@@jonathanbennetts2632 Minimum wage for under 18 years is £4. Then £6 for young 20's. And £9 for over 21 years... Something along those lines anyway. I'm not British, I just googled it! Google could be wrong 🤷🏼♀️!
@@jess1987 I was thinking of London.
Total respect to Shelby 💜💯 She's a young woman making a good go of her life👍.I honestly hope Shelby is in a good, healthy life place in 2024👌 Thank you for this documentary..From NEW ZEALAND 🌅🌊🌲🤓
It's a shame they did not credit some of the charities helping these kids.
So when they say ‘pound’ the British pound is about $1.26 USD. They can’t afford a pound, but can get cigs?
We are in Brisbane Australia but our 23 yr old son moved to London April this year to work and travel etc.. I've been watching these videos and asking him, what it's like there ( he was in brixton now Wimbledon ) he sees it poverty everywhere, but what I don't get is how is he and his travel mates getting great consistent jobs paid at the same rates as UK citizens and these people can't. And I'm talking all industries from hospitality to teacher aids (no qualifications needed).. construction etc. I feel very blessed Australia had the system we have. Uk is far far behind
Did your child finish high school . I don't think any of the three girls have
I feel for Shelby, it seems like she’s actually trying.
It is a cycle going on permanently for generations. Generations living on benefits with no ambition to work for further their education, or even complete school. With handouts, many people choose not to work yet continue to smoke, get pregnant and repeat the poverty cycle.
please update us!
Pregnant and smoking is not good at all.
The term “it takes a village to raise a child” IS SCREAMING at this point, it has fallen on deaf ears. Very sad.
Meanwhile the Queen is dressing in Gemstones and expensive wardrobe complaining about the poor people sleeping in the streets
The Brits need the monarchy,it’s the glue that holds them together in some patriotic illusion. In times of struggle they are firmly convinced their monarch actually cares about them with her/ his carefully crafted public image . Bizarrely, the public is quick to jump on rich politicians though who claim to care for the people.
The queen is dead
I’m sympathetic. Found it ironic she Waited for a cooker to make soup by boiling things… which can be done in a microwave.
I know Im a dumb American but I cant understand most of what they are saying.
Try leaving your neck of the woods and see the world, even in America it has many different accents. Some Yankees can't comprehend some southerners etc. English abroad has many accents, I can understand all of them simply by watching and learning from programs on TV or from jobs I've had throughout a cities with many cultures.
A update on these girls
27:53 - well said ma’am
I remember when I stay on my own.i first started with no money and no help. I love the struggle though.make me a better person.
Something I realise is. The problems is when people come in Ur life and mess up for u.
Need to be sure who u can let them in while ure on the journey
And gratefully.
I never pick up smoking/drinking or partying
Save a few.
I can feel the fun seeing them staring out being independent.
They might think it's not fun now
But years down the road. U know better.
And yea. No food is ok. As long as there are ciggies for them. They be alright..😅
Smokes are 30 dollars for 20 smokes in Australia.
The biggest motivator for me to quit now. I remember them being less than $10 a pack when I started
Almost $10 a pack here in Georgia...up from $7ish a couple of years ago... more costly in New York etc...
@@sheilabrennan4481 we have crazy tax on them here
@@embily8186 same here..extra . taxation is what has made them so expensive... they keep raising it. Hope to quit myself soon. Were you able to go cold turkey or did you use some kind of assistance to help you stop smoking. I have been wanting to stop for years... been smoking for decades
@@sheilabrennan4481 I keep falling back in unfortunately. My next step is going to get a script for champax.
I haven't found standard nicotine replacement therapy helpful yet, so I'm hoping a prescription helps.
I've tried going cold turkey countless times, it never works for me
36:30 - cause she’s a seventeen year old, OVERWHELMED Young lady-CHILD…. Yes she gotta get it together but urgh I hate seeing struggles lose the last bits of … stability they have in such a volatile socio-economic circumstance BORNE into….
Anyone know where Shelby lives in this clip? I know it’s south of Glasgow but where specifically? At 51:45 I believe she says it but I can’t make out what she said. Can anyone who has been in that area or live there let me know? I’m genuinely curious
Why? That’s kinda weird asking where exactly she lives....creep
23:43 what she said i Don't understand
She says that cigarettes are the only luxury she gets, although next week she is getting socks!
@@travelsofsarah thanks 💗
There should be a law against selling cigarettes to pregnant women.
13:46 smoking whilst being pregnant is tantamount to murder.
Yes I think I had to watch this
really takes the meaning out of the saying "it could be worse, you could be Scouse, eating rats in a council house"
I envy them for being English speakers, they could make a whole lot of money in our country by speaking plain stuff
Stop having kids , till you can afford them
I don’t even understand her. I speak English.
You fink she talks funny, eh?
I don’t understand people in the southern US and I speak English! 🤦♀️
30:00 Woah. I miss my mom watching this next scene.
In India they speak better English. At least most have a fully stocked bar and an ample supply of cigarettes.
Just the way the government wants them, DEPENDENT AND IGNORANT!
Not sure when this was filmed but it's like a trip back 30+ years ago in terms of attitude. In Australia the teenage birthrate is now about 2%, smoking is frowned upon by most and most young people aim much higher in terms of jobs and career. Even our lower socioeconomic communities seem better than these people.
ive heard this is 10+ years ago
.
04:30 i dont get it im not english and i am not used to this accent i dont understand
why police came there and took the girl
Bridie breached her bail condition to stay away from the street where her friend lives. The neighbours on the street saw her and called the police to arrest her for breaching the conditions of her bail agreement.
@@travelsofsarah Thanks 💗
*This video is way too old, this came out back in 2012 year, many years passed and TODAY its a 3 of 5 teens claim, England has comedors today for people tho poberty is increasing*
that Bailey been on love island and dated a few football and rugby players
A "charity" got her a position where she works 30 hours and makes the same as the dole? Sounds like a slave labour scam.
Social worker was pretty.
What a useless program. Wagging their fingers at children that obviously have complex family problems.
Exposing the struggles of poor and working poor as social commentary... important in this age of extreme income disparity is essential as far as I see it.And due to extreme austerity measures, cut backs on social programs, outrageous inflation so that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer makes it more important than ever.
A good education is vital. However, one must have responsible mentors to stress such.
Are there no jobs there?!?!? I’m baffled
❤❤
They luv their cigarette 😮😮😮
If you are pregnant and smoking i wish you all the worst
Well, that's nice
One word ..."Tidy"
A big part of the problem is unmarried mothers....and so it continues to the next generation.
Because the dumb politicians take away abortion rights for those young women who made a simple mistake and would like to correct it.
And you have spoken on the unabashed truth!!
👏👏👏👏👏👏
and i thought Craig Ferguson was kidding about the accents...damn those girls are not posh London. Girls the world over get to be prisoners of their hormones. and there are only 8 billion of us in the world...do we need more? ahhh... cigarettes the curse of the poor
Crazy 🌎 world
Born at the wrong time
They should have put the kids up for adoption.
Just wish they spoke better English…. * comment from America. Lol
2:22 wheres the uncensored version? shes kinda cute
Sick creep 🤢🤮🤢
FBI has entered the chat
PLEASE, SUBTITLES I DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING THEY ARE SAYING!!!