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Private Notes
Two despairing single dads agree to send their out-of-control teenagers to Argentina for a dose of good old-fashioned South American parenting.
17-year-old Remzi Tomlin from Romford in Essex is constantly sponging off his dad, who bankrolls him to the tune of £250 a month. 16-year-old Bryony Harris from West Sussex has such extreme temper tantrums, she has been kicked out of two separate schools.
To try to turn their terrible teenagers into mature adults, the desperate dads are sending them 7,000 miles away to live with the Bustamante family in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. But when Bryony threatens to punch the shocked head teacher of the school she attends, it looks like she may need a little more than a change of scene.
Can a week away transform the unruly teenagers and how will they behave when they finally return back home?
Two families at the end of their wick send their disobedient children to South Africa to stay with a lesbian couple, the du Toit de Vos family.
17-year-old British Asian Hamzah Wali is caught between two worlds. His traditional Pakistani family expect him to pray, attend mosque and read the Koran. But Hamzah wants to smoke, drink and date girls.
Charlie Denny's parents spent thousands of pounds on her education, but she still flunked out of private school. Her father has multiple sclerosis, but Charlie is too busy getting drunk and no-one talks about it.
Gay mum Anna-Marie is a barrister and her partner Suzanne is an artist. They fought the laws against gay couples adopting children - and won. So taking on two rebellious British teenagers is going to be an interesting challenge for them.
Hamzah isn't best pleased to find two women telling him what to do. He refuses to participate in family meals, school work and helping around the farm. When Anna-Marie asks him to help plant a tree Hamzah walks off the job and sparks fly.
Can a week with the gay mums make Hamzah pull his finger out and get Charlie to open up to her true feelings?
How will unruly British teenagers Shola and Joiee cope when they are sent to live with the strict Virk family in the new city of Gurgaon, north of Delhi's suburbs?
Two desperate mums send their wayward teens Jade and Connor to Seattle to be straightened out by old-fashioned, strict, evangelical Christians, the Smith Irwin family.
Two obnoxious teenagers, Georgie and Callum, swap their downtrodden single mums to live with the strict Chinese-American Li family in North Carolina for a week.
Two desperate parents send their tearaway teens Ritchie and Hannah to rural Turkey to experience conservative parenting at the hands of teachers Ali and Canan Vural.
A catch-up with ten terrible teenagers to find out if their experiences of strict parenting abroad has made any lasting change on their lives back home.
