Hi, I'm the mom from the Distel family on Under One Roof. I just wanted to let you know that my kids (Melissa and David) did not suffer any irreversible psychological damage as a result of participating in the show. Although we were the first to leave the island, we did spend over two weeks with the other families (even though it looks like three days on TV).

In the amount of time that we were there, I didn't see any evidence that the other teens were being damaged in any way either. Sure Bianca cried about the spiders....she would've cried at home if she'd seen a spider walk across her bedroom floor. Sure the kids saw immoral behavior at times, but as parents, it is our job to use those situations to teach our kids some valuable lessons. They see bad stuff everyday and are subjected to people who are mean and nasty and evil right in their own backyards...the only difference was, it was all televised.

Every family going into the show had to realize there were going to be a lot of unknowns to deal with. The rules stated that anyone could quit whenever they wanted as well. Nobody was forced to stay and endure the horrors of bad behavior by grown men. My kids had the choice whether to go or not. In the end they opted to go. The whole Kitten/Bribe thing was blown out of proportion, but gee the producers found a great angle with that one and they used it, as I would expect them to.

I know it's easy for me to say this now, but my main reason for wanting to go was not to win a house that I would never be able to visit. It was to spend some time with my kids doing some things that we don't or can't do here and to share an experience with them that they would never ever forget! There were good and bad things about the show as there is with any reality T.V. show, but unless you were there, you really have no idea what the Reality was.