I just had to say this is the meanest idea for a tv show that I have ever seen. To put the 5 couples through this is unthinkable. The poor baby is going to grow knowing that the most important decision in his birth mother's life is just fodder for ratings. Adoptees and birthparents have a hard enough time and to trivialise this issue is sickening. Shame on ABC! :tut:
Well that my opinion. What does everyone else think?
Here is the link http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/Living/Adoption_main_040430-1.html

Yeah, I thought that sounded pretty rude too. I think its taking reality TV too far. Sheesh, what they'll do for ratings...

If people stopped watching, they wouldn't air it.

I thought those TV wedding shows were bad enough (where the 'player' picks a bride out of people he's never met before and marries her on-air) - but treatings innocent, unwitting children as gameshow prizes... that's sick. I don't know who's worse, the irresponsable people running it or the participants!

But maybe I'm just old fashioned *shrugs* I hate seeing life's most precious things being trivialised like that.

Ah, so that's what the owner's of the local ABC franchise are pulling off the air tonight.

My best friend just told me on Saturday that she's pregnant.

Her BF wants the big A of course. They were using the 3 R's for protection, and he thought it would be a good idea to go bareback in the middle of ovulation week. The guy has an IQ over 160, but he's a friggen tard.

She wants me to tape the show.

I will.

News just in: For everybody who thinks with logic and refuses to watch 'Garbage TV' there are 10 who don't.

IOW, we are the minority, and culture is the victim.

RIP common sense /mourn

I just could not believe that Barbara Walters agreed to this show having adopted a child herself. I wonder what Disney thinks of this?

"The late William Pierce was one of the most outspoken opponents of open adoption. "The primary concern is the long-term psychological trauma the child may experience"

What a retard.

We have at least 5,000 generations(probably closer to 10K) of other people taking care of another woman's(or man's) child(ren). Openly. Naturally.

The reason a woman has 2 breasts, and the reason why human females cycle mensus together.

If this is the beginning of the end of the nuclear family, more power to them.

All I saw was a stupid little pimply faced 16 year old girl getting off on the power of having control over the lives of 10 adults.

I hate that show, and Barbara Waters.

From what I've heard, ABC had no control in what happened with the adoption. Typically a mother won't have to decide between five parents like this, but it is usually about three in the case of an open adoption. If you notice in the article, they say it was the mother who decided to interview the five couples. I didn't watch the show myself, but from reading that article it didn't seem like it was a competition to win a baby or anything like that, but a typical adoption proceedure filmed to inform people on how these things go about.

So, I guess I'm not understanding what they did wrong.

"it didn't seem like it was a competition"

It was presented that way.
3 couples were voted off the island.
The girl interviewed the 2 remaining couples after that.
One couple left, went to lunch, and called bull**** on the whole thing.

The last couple was elated.
Then they set up the tease, that the girl wanted to keep the kid after all that.

I could not watch anymore of that **** and turned it off.
Don't even tell me how it turned out.

"...trivialise this issue is sickening." Leafblower was right. It was.

Ok, but aside from the fact that it was cut down to a 40 minute period, how is this any different than what happens in real life? In open adoptions, the mothers are forced to choose between various people and they have to let some of them down. They can only choose one couple and how often do you think someone is satisfied with the first couple they interview?

Then they set up the tease, that the girl wanted to keep the kid after all that.

Is that really that surprising? I believe something like 50-60% of women that are going to give up their child for adoption change their mind at the last minute. I strongly doubt it's that unusual for someone to have second thoughs, especially for someone that originally didn't want to give up her baby to begin with.

Again, I didn't see the show, so I'm just going off on what has been said here. I still don't see what was so horrible or unusual by what was done. Did ABC interfere with the process somehow? Did they do something that open adoptions don't typically allow? Sorry, I'm not trying to argue or anything, just trying to understand what the big deal is.

For me, adopting a child, or giving up a child, I imagine to be a deeply personal experience. Not something I would want aired on national television. And from the few ads I saw for it, it was presented as a competition.

Then again, I have no use for any reality shows. I like football and hockey.

And cheese.

Adoption is a very personal thing and most girls who give up a child only look at histories and stories of prospective parents. They are not actually interviewed unless the girl is very serious about that couple. Also most couples have no idea which girls are looking at them until that time. I am more upset at the ABC,and the girls family for doing this. Alot of couples looking to adopt would do almost anything to get a baby including national television and to put them through that for sweeps week is wrong.

I tried to watch the show and could only get through 10 min. it made me sick. I am glad to hear a couple walked out at least they realized what it was....bull****.

"Is that really that surprising?"

What? Keeping it, no.

The tease? Not really, just ****ing sickening is all.

Stone Phillips announcer voice on:

"Will she decide to keep the baby, we will find out right after this commercial"
Commercial
"She is still deciding if she wants it."
"Lets look at the anguish of the last couple standing for a few minutes, shall we"
"Even her mother now is having second thoughts"
"What will they decide?, stay tuned after this commercial"
Commercial



/puke

Adoption is a business. Put all the happy-go-lucky feelings into it that you want, but you're only fooling yourselves. My parents have adopted 3 children since I grew up and moved out. One was from here in America, one from Russia, and the last was from China. Of course, if you want a blond haired, blue eyed baby boy, expect to pay top dollar. Girls are cheaper, and the price goes downhill from there. Go overseas, and they are practically giving girls away. Money is always the bottom line. People make thier living from adoption.

*Shakes head*

I can't believe people just accept crap as inevitable. If you actually advocate it, then fine... everyone has their own beliefs (personally I hate this kind of stuff, but the world's too volatile and life too short to fight over it). If you don't but just accept it - then that's sad. If everyone takes the easy route and just accepts that bad things will happen, they will. As a consequence, the world will become an even worse place than it is already.