Will

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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skinny

Not at all, i find it hard to believe. I will watch the first one, make my assumptions on both parents and surrogate parents and wate for the headlines.

On the up side, if some young people learn a bit and change enough to make some other kids life better, well, i wonder.

Will

I'm sure there are far better ways of going about it though. For a start, the kind of problem kids this programme will be examining, and the kind who would much prefer to watch 'Big Bruvva!'.

This whole programme wreaks of a cheap shot at ratings, and like I said, I don't believe it will teach us anything we didn't already know. I am pre-judging, but to get back to my main point, I can' think of any situation where I'd consider people lending their children to this king of programme, as acceptable.

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Bruv

I saw the programme trailer and needed to watch.
I couldn't see how any parent could allow a baby to be loaned ....let alone get both parents to agree.
The set up (for those who didn't watch)was that the new parents all lived in a single street, the parents were monitoring every move from another house in the street, with the option of intervening at any time. There was also a Nanny in attendance inside the houses with the each pair of pretend parents, should any emergencies occur that might need a fast reaction.

I watched it with some misgivings.but over all it was revealing.
The set up proved to be too false, there couldn't be that settling in period to adjust to the cameras presence.....so most of the immature teens were acting up to the cameras.
But the seriousness of having to care for a helpless baby was made very clear.
The first progamme always has to set up the whole scene , I will try to catch the next one.

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skinny

I missed it.

It was never going to represent true life, heh!

Sweetpea

I think social services should be called.