tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post5602571378534107404..comments2024-03-27T20:48:39.389-04:00Comments on [Birth Mother] First Mother Forum: Want to "star" in reality TV? Sign up to give your baby upLorraine Duskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285341379272250245noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-20717513086651048202011-06-24T11:03:12.191-04:002011-06-24T11:03:12.191-04:00@d28bob, the topic AT HAND was reality t.v's d...@d28bob, the topic AT HAND was reality t.v's disgusting attempt to exploit young, pregnant,vulnerable woman and their infants, was it not? I was not aware it was about Gay adoption... <br /><br />Love this quote:<br /><br />"I have given up on her, and am determined to work for the kids in my case, keeping them in contact with their shattered siblings. No, adoption is not the best of all worlds for kids, but neither is living with a meth head mom..."<br /><br />Isn't is wonderful to sit on your holier than thou throne and control the life of another and her children?<br /><br />Drug addiction is horrific, this is true, but who are you to judge and say you have "given up on her"? This is a human being you are speaking of, not some soulless creature not worthy of redemption.<br /><br />Get over yourself why don't ya...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-63670615415743101752011-06-23T22:04:42.167-04:002011-06-23T22:04:42.167-04:00To return to the original topic, my nephew and his...To return to the original topic, my nephew and his partner (married thanks to the State of New Hampshire) recently adopted a boy from Arizona. Though I'm sure two guys raising an infant will have its funny moments, I think they will be good parents. The mother chose them because of their liberal views, and provided contact information for their son's sibling so he will know family.<br /><br />As for foster adoption, I work with CASA and in the case I currently have, the mother is losing two of her four children to adoption and may lose my two if she keeps failing drug tests. I have given up on her, and am determined to work for the kids in my case, keeping them in contact with their shattered siblings. No, adoption is not the best of all worlds for kids, but neither is living with a meth head mom.d28bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05866860173755756630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-73479831139762817122011-06-16T18:49:33.436-04:002011-06-16T18:49:33.436-04:00Great plan, JaneGreat plan, JaneJane Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05669797756463841249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-45525746274230835242011-06-16T16:33:41.089-04:002011-06-16T16:33:41.089-04:00I truly feel sorry for any expectant mother who bu...I truly feel sorry for any expectant mother who buys into this type of “reality show”. <br />Of course there will be extensive manipulation to the expectant mothers by the producers of the show. They are only looking at ratings and the profitability. Humanity, which gets thrown out of the equation when dollars are to be made.<br />What about their child if they choose adoption? Will that child get a copy of the show their mother “starred” in when they are older?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-19465494336290222382011-06-16T10:28:29.124-04:002011-06-16T10:28:29.124-04:00Perhaps we need to make our own production special...Perhaps we need to make our own production special. <br /><br />Yep! We'll call it "Survivors: First Mother Island." We'll lock a bunch of people in a Closet of Shame. Show rampant disregard for their civil liberties. Pressure them into signing over their parental rights by any means possible. Yell vile things at them. Accuse them of prostitution, drug addiction, child abuse, child abandonment and baby selling. Slap duct tape over their mouths and sentence them to 3 decades of silence. Then, after they're shell-shocked, beaten down and heartbroken? We'll suddenly let them free with this little piece of advice: "Forget and Go On!"<br /><br />Nahhhh....that's too much reality for reality TV. Nobody would ever believe it!!!!!Jane Karrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-29922502660193635362011-06-16T07:57:01.435-04:002011-06-16T07:57:01.435-04:00Agreeing with Lauren. I may be the last person on ...Agreeing with Lauren. I may be the last person on earth who has never watched a reality show of any sort, unless you count animal and nature shows. The human animal is too disgusting.<br /><br />Anyone who goes on one of these shows to be "famous" pretty much deserves what she gets, including any pregnant young woman stupid and greedy enough to sign up. If everyone ignores this crap, it WILL go away. The only reason it exists is money and ratings."Reality" which is always scripted, is cheaper than paying actors.maryannenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-61457249600716724632011-06-15T19:07:20.093-04:002011-06-15T19:07:20.093-04:00I'm starting to think that it boils down to th...I'm starting to think that it boils down to this: all shows featuring "live" people, be it Maury, Montel, 16 and Pregnant, or whatever, just exist because people want to be vaildated that SOMEONE has it worse off than they do--that someone else's behavior is worse than theirs, no matter what they're actually getting away with.<br /><br />It's sad, pathetic, and sad again. The fact that the people of this country take pleasure in seeing other fellow americans (let alone humans) suffer, just because it makes THEM seem less like the leeches of society that they really are....<br /><br />ugh. <br /><br />What is becoming of our world.....laurenhttp://www.youneveretoverit2.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-45573141041642429132011-06-15T18:47:16.684-04:002011-06-15T18:47:16.684-04:00I cannot watch a reality show that follows the liv...I cannot watch a reality show that follows the lives of expectant mothers thinking through their options. I just can't. It is inhumane and makes no sense.<br /><br />The severing of a family should never be filmed for public comsumption - it just shouldn't. And the one at the center of all that has their rights stripped away without a second thought.<br /><br />And sadly you are right Lorraine - some girls will get pregnant hoping to get on these shows.<br /><br />I bet the adoption industry is salavating at yet another show promoting adoption.<br /><br />I'm sad now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-29823139017469956352011-06-15T18:07:57.656-04:002011-06-15T18:07:57.656-04:00These show are disgusting...
Unplanned pregnancy...These show are disgusting... <br /><br />Unplanned pregnancy and a subsequent surrender due to making a very uniformed choice is nothing to celebrate and not the business of millions of people who watch this crap. <br /><br />How are these women going to feel, some 20 years down the road, when they live not only with the anguish of a decision that they now regret, but to have done so in front of millions who watched it as if it is now some spectator sport? <br /><br />For those women who want to be a "star" via exploiting their unplanned pregnancies (or NOT so unplanned, to get on a reality show), I just have no words, except for why? I will never understand that. <br /><br />I watched 16 and Pregnant last night and the it happened to be the episode about the girl who was considering adoption. She didn't go through with it. I am sure as she watches her precious child grow, as she should have, it is a decision she will never regret. <br /><br />I hope some of these women will read stories, such as ours, about what it is REALLY like to lose your child to adoption and opt out of such idiocy via reality television...PhoenixRisinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07655924058370540037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-56823326476762275382011-06-15T17:21:07.978-04:002011-06-15T17:21:07.978-04:00Discovery Fit & Health channel's series (F...Discovery Fit & Health channel's series (Formerly TLC?)"Adoption Stories" t.v. series is right up there with this one. I remember reading that a first mother didn't want to place but she was being filmed for this show. She ending up placing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-47775764470018407652011-06-15T16:54:19.308-04:002011-06-15T16:54:19.308-04:00I looked at the site for the production company. ...I looked at the site for the production company. Seems there are many people who spend a great deal of effort pitching themselves to reality show producers. I always wondered where they found folks who are so eager to humiliate themsevles on TV, but now I see that they are mostly wannabe actresses, singers, and other no-talents of various stripes. Gone are the days of having actually having a real talent....just become a caricature of yourself on the tube and you're guaranteed a certain amount of fame. Oh, it helps to be the meanest of the mean girls with lots of catfighting and screaming (ala Real Housewives of Whatever City).<br /><br />This "ground breaking documentary" will likely result in the typical reality-show garbage that is standard fare these days. Another opportunity to present a nuanced view of the complexities of adoption will be wasted yet again. But someone will get famous and make a little cash, so I guess that's what counts.maybehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07067284504038707207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-28452953040306040472011-06-15T14:22:15.169-04:002011-06-15T14:22:15.169-04:00One thing, as a person, that each of us can do is ...One thing, as a person, that each of us can do is to boycott any channel or broadcaster that permits these kinds of shows to be aired.Lorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05815710859859029536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-2936484591208473862011-06-15T14:21:15.415-04:002011-06-15T14:21:15.415-04:00This surprises anyone? I don't know about you...This surprises anyone? I don't know about you but when they started making celebrity hijinks the headliner for the news, I stopped having faith in the American mind. Idiocy seems to make millions so they keep doing it.Lorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05815710859859029536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-59949951398953463922011-06-15T13:29:52.820-04:002011-06-15T13:29:52.820-04:00I want to be on a show where a woman is comtemplat...I want to be on a show where a woman is comtemplating divorce (we'll call her a divorcee even though she is still married). Five fabulous, sexually-starved middle-aged women with more cash and nicer homes than the divorcee will compete to claim her future ex-husband. I will do whatever it takes to win! But there will be requirements for the future-ex: prefer white, college educated, no tattoos, good table manners. <br /><br />Would that be tacky? No, of course not, it will be a ground-breaking documentary!maybehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07067284504038707207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-52100201783595123762011-06-15T09:54:23.470-04:002011-06-15T09:54:23.470-04:00Here in Illinois because of recent legislation tha...Here in Illinois because of recent legislation that allows civil unions, Catholic charities has stated they will suspend adoptions. They say that letting gay couples adopt is against their beliefs. I believe that they have filed a lawsuit.tryingtohealnoreply@blogger.com