NBC Airs Show About Teens Raising Other Babies

Last month, the National Broadcasting Corporation launched a new reality TV series called, "Baby Borrowers." The concept of the show, according to NBC producers, is to prove to teenagers that despite whatever they may think, they are not ready to have kids, and as a result, should not be engaging in sex in their teenage years. The concept for this show was taken from a British show that had the same concept. In this series, five teen couples are put in a house wired with cameras and given a strangers baby for three full days to experience firsthand the life of an adult raising children on their own. The parents of the young infants were not paid for allowing their children into the show, they volunteered. There was an interview on the television show Fox & Friends with one of the mothers that volunteered her one year old son to be used on that show.

I have several thoughts and concerns about the overall concept and creation of this series. First of all, I am all for the concept of proving to teenagers that they should not be having sex and that they are definitely not ready to have children at their young ages. That being said, I feel that NBC has seriously crossed the line in putting together this series, abusing young lives just to make a profit. Yes, that's right...keep in mind here that the whole reason why this show was made and aired on television was to sell advertising space on commercial segments to make millions of dollars in profits and stuff in it their pockets. Absolutely no mention anywhere on this program that the money generated from airing that show would be used in any way to help national organizations that try to educate and prevent teen pregnancy. This was all done to make a profit for NBC!