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Cotton Wool Kids
C4 Thursday 10 April 2008 9pm
Childhood is changing. Anxious parents fear that modern Britain has never been a more dangerous place for children. They believe the greatest danger lurks outside the home. But as some families go to increasingly extreme lengths to keep their children safe, this Cutting Edge documentary explores the effect it is having on modern childhood.
Told partly through the eyes of the children themselves this film explores the anxieties and fears of modern parents and takes a look at how technology plays an increasingly important role in their children's lives; for play or for protection.
Faced with what they believe to be a world of unacceptable risk, the three parents in this documentary admit they are over-anxious, explaining simply that they feel it is 'better to be safe than sorry'.
