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Turn on the television in prime time and you're likely to find a channel where ordinary individuals are sharing astonishing, sad or sick family secrets. For every guest on The Jerry Springer Show who lets it all hang out – often literally – on the sexual front, there's a subject on Dr Phil working through psychological torment under the studio spotlights.
Flip through any news-paper and you will come across secrets belonging to other people that publishers believe you should or would like to know. There's frivolous and titillating: We now know, for example, that movie heart-throb Brad Pitt's got a rug as blond as his drapes to please Angelina Jolie.
But there's also the disturbing and even shocking, such as the recent revelations that a Gauteng pastor and his wife were allegedly treating their foster children like neglected animals, locking them up, wearing soiled clothes, in a room with little food and water.
Judging from how much media space is devoted to family secrets, we are a generation both fascinated and troubled by them.
Read more in the November 2005 issue of Fairlady
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