The most unsettling show on TV

For the first time ever tonight, I caught Fox's "Nanny 911."

This show essentially takes insanely screwed-up families and tries to fix them in one week with a nanny.

Tonight's family embodied everything I personally hate, fear and loathe about parents. I felt downright uncomfortable watching the video footage of this family in action because they, like most of the families featured here, embodied everything that is wrong with middle class parenting: A lack of discipline, parental involvement and an overabundance of the warm fuzzies. And Fox is just hyping it up as "oh, it's that funny."

No, actually, it isn't.

It isn't funny to see a young, somewhat wealthy stay-at-home mom who seems to have been thrust into motherhood alone, unprepared and against her will. It isn't funny to see her successful, businessman husband yell at her because their SIX young children are out of control as he's trying to work. It isn't funny to see him intentionally spend all of his time in another part of the house so he pointedly does not have to help get his gigantic brood ready for school, doesn't have to help with meals or cleaning or discipline in any way....and he yells at his wife for not getting his lunch ready as she tries to keep her absurdly horrible children from killing each other before school. I wanted to cry as I watched her four-year-old twins just beat the living hell out of each other and her as she tried in vain to please her man.

These people don't need a nanny. They need family planning. A miracle reality TV nanny is not going to be able to fix the life of a lost, depressed housewife. If I were the nanny, I would have told her to run as far and as fast as she could.

Simply put: This family needs serious therapy, not to be paraded about on television.