Baby Borrowers Show- Do you think it great or not?

Question

I do not like it! I have only watched it once & won't again!

I hope they cancel this show immediatley!!

If these parents knew the long term effects of what they are doing to their poor babies, they may not choose to do so.

Attachment to parents is a basic need for babies. When they are being left with strangers to care for them, when they only want their mom or dad, it is causing attachment issues, whether anyone agrees with me or not.

This is fact, I am not making it up.

I feel these parents are used to leaving their children with other people, so they don't think much of it.

You think my views are extreme???!!!

I have studied attachment disorders in detail & attended classes for how to foster children who have them. This is practically what is happening. Abuse does not have to be verbal, physical, sexual. It CAN be emotional!!!

Another thing, these young kids "playing house", don't have the benefit of carrying their child for 9 months, to bond with them in the 1st place.

Answer 1

I don't think they will have any permanent issues. I don't leave my children either but I think some kids are better off the more they can be away from their parents. I don't think it has as much to do with morals as education. Parents think talking to their kids about s*x is taboo. So most teens are uneducated. People, especially adults, need to grow up. If the parent doesn't speak to the children about it then who will? The other teens and how accurate do you think that info will be? If kids were brought up being told about the risks and dangers of s*x like they are drugs then things wouldn't be so bad. Not to mention the fact that kids now have no clue what it means that it brings something special to a marraige. Something no other has had.

Answer 2

I think it should be required viewing for every teen in the world.  Birth control at its best!

Remember,  first what day-care is.  The same thing as this.  Second, that the parents were never far away from the babies and connected at all times by close circuit TV.  Always watching.  Third, that this was only 3 days time, not 3 weeks as we see it.

Teens have a natural idea they know EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD just as some of these kids did.  They thought babies were nothing hard.  They quickly learned how dumb and inadequate they were.  One guy did it with his girlfriend for exactly that reason.  To turn her off the idea.

This may help do what parents have tried to do for years and failed at.

Answer 3

I also thought to myself that the babies do not understand what is going on and i would never put my daughter in any type of experiment like this! But I also think it is a good way for the teens to realize that there is more to raising a baby than they may think. Im sort of unsure of the show now, I think it should have been the toddlers since they would understand better what is happening

Answer 4

i completely understand where you coming from hun and what not

but its not like their leaving their babies for months at a time. it was three days. parents do that alllllll the time

i mean yeah i find it wrong that their using these babies, toddlers, ect as experiments

but the long term effects on a baby being away from their mum and dad for only 3 days isnt going to do much. its like a stay at an aunt and uncles or grandparents. and i can almost garrantee that the show made sure the young couples and the parents spent time together so the baby would be familier. i read that in a paper somewhere about the show.

but as for the show itself i think its a great show. its a great lesson for teens to wake up and realize that having a baby isnt a walk in the park.

Answer 5

I feel your view are a bit extreme. But I do agree e with you on one thing these kids didn't carry that baby for 9 months. I will admit wont watch other peoples babies because there not mine and I didn't carry that baby for 9 months. But I will let my baby stay with my mother or grandma for 3 days and my baby likes them and bonds with them. I wont leave her with people I don't think she will bond with. Also I think foster care kids have a whole different attachment problem than a child that spent 3 days with some kids. Or spend time with there grandparents.