The World's Strictest Parents

Television series
German title	The World's Strictest Parents
Original title	The World's Strictest Parents
Country of production	Germany
Year (s)	2009-2014
Production company	Blue Eyes Film & Television GmbH
length	120 minutes
Episodes	62+ in 6 seasons
Broadcasting cycle	if in the program: Sundays and Tuesdays or Wednesdays
genre	Documentary soap
Theme music	Rammstein - angel
idea	Jan Becker
First broadcast	March 1st, 2009 on Kabel Eins

The strictest parents in the world was a docu-soap that was broadcast by Kabel eins from 2009 to 2012 and by Sat.1 in 2013 and has been broadcast again on Kabel eins since 2014. Under the title Extreme Upbringing: The Strictest Parents in the World Special , old episodes will be re-edited and broadcast on Sat.1 Gold.

concept

The program shows young people who have been noticed in their families and schools for their lack of consideration and disrespect, often supplemented by excessive alcohol and / or drug consumption and violence, usually one boy and one girl per program. They are sent for about two weeks to a completely new environment in a foreign country, where they are supposed to prove themselves socially in a new environment and show respect for their fellow human beings . They usually have to live in rather uncomfortable conditions and do work that is uncomfortable for them. Agriculture and the duty to help feed the community often play a role. The young people are clueless when they start their journey - they think they are being sent on an ordinary vacation or party trip. The new family usually does not speak German, and since the young people rarely have a good command of English or speak the respective national language, they usually have to communicate with the host parents using a translator. At first, the young people are surprised or horrified by their new whereabouts and the rules imposed on them there. In the first week there is a punishment for at least one person refusing to work or breaking the smoking ban. In the middle of the stay there is a psychological low point, followed by a rethink and the realization that one has to change. This is followed by cooperation with the host family and learning to deal with social issues. At the end of the program, the young people return to their parents in Germany purified and want to lead a better life.

Other countries

The original concept of the show comes from the British production company TwentyTwenty Television, which originally produced the show for the BBC . Under the name “The World's Strictest Parents”, the program ran on the BBC, in the USA on the CMT channel and on Channel Seven in Australia in separate versions tailored to the two countries. The format also runs in Denmark (under the title "Verdens stricte forældre") on the Danish channel TV3 and in Poland (title: "Surowi Rodzice") on the Polish channel TVN.

criticism

The Hamburger Abendblatt criticized the show in an article dated March 2, 2009 that young people were speculatively presented as negative examples where expert pedagogy would have been appropriate. The participants would be sent into a disaster completely unprepared. In 2012 the Commission for Youth Media Protection (KJM) sharply criticized the program format; The strictest parents in the world give the viewer the impression that a change in behavior among young people can be achieved through rigor and in the context of a television broadcast.

Seasons

Season 1 (2009)

episode	Teenagers	family		episode	Teenagers	family
1	Sarah and Thomas	Waldner family in Canada		8th	Dustin and Jeffrey	Tejada family in Peru
2	Fabian and Julia	Nicolaus family in Namibia		9	Anna and Michael	Urbanski family in South Africa
3	Kay and Nicole	The Brunner family in Switzerland		10	Repetition of all families
4th	Michael and Jennifer	Urbanski family in South Africa		11	Lilli and Stanislav	Fedorenko family in Siberia
5	Anna and Pisei Stephen and Agnes	The Dahl family in Montana The Friedrich family in Morocco		12	Yvonne and Michel	The Liebich family in Greece
6th	Caroline and Vivien	Akorli family in Ghana		13	Louis and Sarah	The Kramer family in Germany
7th	Jaqueline and Mandy	The Krämer family in Patagonia		14th	Justin and Nadine	The Stemmann family in Tenerife

Season 2 (2010)

episode	Teenagers	family		episode	Teenagers	family
1	Jenny and Dennis	The Tjazerua-Auala family in Namibia		6th	Michele and Daria	Pokarel family in Nepal
2	Michaela and Tino	Carloanta family in Romania		7th	Aylin and Markus	Sairua family in Kenya
3	Dominic and Alicia	Maksymyuk family in Ukraine		8th	Soner and Laura	Ross family in Finland
4th	Robin and Vivien	Lengenberg family in Seattle		9	Shiva and Nico	Wesseln family in Spain
5	Vivien and Marcel	Spence-Blackwell family in New Zealand		10	Anna and Laura	Dahl family in Montana

Season 3 (2011)

episode	Teenagers	family		episode	Teenagers	family
1	Jessika and Basti	Dieme family in Senegal		7th	Dennis and Michelle	Muluneh family in Ethiopia
2	Laura and Marlon	Bishnoi family in India		8th	Dennis and Janet	Bozjigon family in Mongolia
3	Antonia and Max	Machaca family in Peru		9	Maurice and Angelina	Pataxó family in Brazil
4th	Dominik and Kalica	Erdal family in Turkey		10	Danny and Jasmine	Lundberg family in Iceland
5	Samer and Dana	Marika family in Australia		11	Marta and Fabian	Botrasoa family in Madagascar
6th	Sascha and Janine	Miguras family in Siberia		12	Timmy and Anne	Lopes family in the Cape Verde Islands

Season 4 (2012)

episode	Teenagers	family
1	Aileen and Dominique	Nengah family in Bali
2	Sina and Pascale-Kevin	Sosa family in Argentina
3	Monique and Timucin	Gidobat family in Tanzania
4th	Florian and Selina	Waurá family in Brazil
5	Angelina and David	Neskov family in Macedonia

Season 5 (2013)

episode	Teenagers	family		episode	Teenagers	family
1	Jarvis and Denise	Mentawai Indians in Siberut Island		9	Jessica and Marven	Monferrer family in Spain
2	Cihan and Jonas	Saramakans in Suriname		10	Maurizio and Giuseppe	Codreanu family in Romania
3	Chiara and Christian	Maziya family in Swaziland		11	Natalie and Jan	Uighur family Thoti in China
4th	Jennifer and Marcel	Karen in Thailand		12	Dennis and Christian	Shipibo - Indians in Peru
5	Corinna and Florian	Tuncer family in Turkey		13	Jaqueline and Selina	The Kambalas family in Namibia
6th	Chantal and Daniel	Wang family in China		14th	Sabrina and Marc	Do family in Vietnam
7th	Selina and Dennis	Abases family in Namibia		15th	Jessica and Raphael	The Nakinge family in Greenland
8th	Calvin and Michaela	Waorani in Ecuador

Season 6 (2014)

episode	Teenagers	family
1	Rafaela and Sammy	Casey family in Ireland
2	Moritz and Dominik	Bakytbek family in Kyrgyzstan
3	Chantal and Denis	Wilcox-Starkweather family in Montana
4th	Leo and Dzulija	Curikova family in Latvia

Web links

• The World's Strictest Parents in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Website of the show at kabeleins.de
• Website of the broadcast at sat1.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TV review: "The strictest parents in the world" (Cable 1): pitiful, speculative documentary. Hamburger Abendblatt online, March 2, 2009, accessed on March 14, 2012 . 
2. ↑ "Reality documentary in criticism - youth protectionists attack" The strictest parents in the world "". Express online, July 23, 2009, accessed December 12, 2015 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh} Follow , Kabel Eins

Remarks

1. ↑ The episode was broadcast as a special, for the first time the mothers traveled after their children and were able to watch their stay on screens in a hotel nearby and were brought to the children at the end, so the reunion wasn't at home for the first time, but with the host parents.