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**Will** · 01-09-2007, 09:38 PM

I see the BBC are making another pseudo-social science programme. This time they've got various couples to lend their babies (yes you just read that right) to a bunch of young teenagers who have no experience of child care, they are then going to put them in houses and see how they cope with adult life.

Apart from being a pointless endeavour which I doubt is going to teach us anything we didn't already know, isn't the real issue about the parents who are "lending" their children for this experiment?!?

I don't know the details of the programme, but I can't imagine any realistic situation where I would lend my child to a bunch of kids to look after it! I don't care how scrupulous and careful the producers were, and how many guarantees I was given for their safety, I wouldn't not do that in a million years! I think the microscope should be on these families who would do such a thing (most likely for large sums of money), and the programme makers themselves!

Am I alone in thinking this is insane?

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Will Administrator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,090	Borrow a Baby? I see the BBC are making another pseudo-social science programme. This time they've got various couples to lend their babies (yes you just read that right) to a bunch of young teenagers who have no experience of child care, they are then going to put them in houses and see how they cope with adult life. Apart from being a pointless endeavour which I doubt is going to teach us anything we didn't already know, isn't the real issue about the parents who are "lending" their children for this experiment?!? I don't know the details of the programme, but I can't imagine any realistic situation where I would lend my child to a bunch of kids to look after it! I don't care how scrupulous and careful the producers were, and how many guarantees I was given for their safety, I wouldn't not do that in a million years! I think the microscope should be on these families who would do such a thing (most likely for large sums of money), and the programme makers themselves! Am I alone in thinking this is insane? __________________ Admin Will - Think for yourself, it hasn't been banned, yet. "When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson Contact me.