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CBS television, desperate for a hit to follow on from its reality shows Survivor and Amazing Race, has had the bright idea of emulating Lord of the Flies, Golding's 1954 dark masterpiece that earned him the Nobel prize for literature. The network has chosen 40 kids aged eight to 15 who will be left to their own devices for 40 days in a ghost town in New Mexico.
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The challenge that CBS will set the kids is to see whether they can be any more successful in establishing a functioning society than those original frontiersmen. They will elect four leaders to guide them and set bedtimes. They will have to cook their own meals, clean their own outhouses and run their own businesses.
Whole story here. Bolding mine.
Adults are one thing, but children, who don't have fully developed abilities to rationalize yet, and are still developing their coping mechanisms and morality standards... Damn. The bastage stage-parents that signed them up to this should be beaten with a large stick. I'm sure they think allowing them to go home whenever they feel like it is enough of a safeguard, but that really depends on the child's level of autonomy.
