Pregnancy
Discussion Title: Baby borrowers
Created by: gail
Created on: Tue, 06/17/2008 - 12:35pm.
Created by: gail
Created on: Tue, 06/17/2008 - 12:35pm.
I know, I said I wouldn't be back, and I'm not, but I wanted to reach everybody I could about this issue. I sent this e-mail to everybody on my address list, and then I thought of all of you.
I read yesterday in the paper about a TV show that is going to begin airing on June 25 on NBC. I was really upset about the show and I wanted to invite you to join me if you happen to agree with me.
I'm sending this to everyone on my address list, so if you don't remember who I am, Sorry!
Just wanted you to know, as quickly as possible, that I will regretfully end my 45 year long relationship with what has been a fine network if you air a single episode of baby borrowers. That you have condoned removing children for 72 hours from their primary caregivers is abominable. Your purported admirable motive blinded you to participating in human slavery and abuse.
It is no longer hard for me to believe that no one in your programming department had the wits to consider the effect on these children as a counterbalance to cheap programming.
You need to foot the bill for parenting classes for those who rented out their children. That the adults knew the children were safe is interesting, but the children could not have known that they were themselves safe.
How could you do such a thing?
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Replied: 6/25/2008 8:25pm.
Look...more power to you. But I feel like this is going to have to be a case of agree to disagree.
Replied: 6/25/2008 9:26pm.
USA today had an article on June 24. Wish I had seen it before. I'm watching Deal or No Deal.
Replied: 6/25/2008 9:54pm.
Deal or No Deal, which is on NBC?
Replied: 6/25/2008 10:06pm.
Yep, writing down every company that advertised on the show. Watching Supernanny now. Gonna write down all their advertisers, too. Then tomorrow morning I'll call them all. Tell the NBC advertisers about their show. The the ABC advertisers that I enjoy supernanny every week. If your cable company gives you the option of WE whatever that is, please call your cable company tomorrow and ask them to take it off the lineup. I don't have it so that won't make a difference. I thought about listing the advertisers here, but that would be an abuse of the forum.
Replied: 6/25/2008 10:19pm.
Well, I applaud you for your perseverance.
Replied: 6/25/2008 11:03pm.
This site sure is entertaining. Quite frankly, I don't see what the big deal is. I watched the show and thought it was interesting.
Replied: 6/26/2008 2:28am.
As for my family and I, we wont watch this kind of garbage. I wouldn’t allow this to be done to my children, so why would I support it being done to someone else’s child? Those amongst us who believe that NBC is doing this as a way to educate teen’s , I have a bridge I want to sell you. I guess we should also believe that Survivor is all about honing our survival skills, and Hell’s Kitchen was created to refine our palates. Primetime slots are not given away, and NBC is profiting from this show. If all the sponsors pulled their ad’s NBC would drop the show like a hot potato.
Replied: 6/26/2008 11:18am.
I am not suggesting that babies are lab rats and we should be experimenting with them AT ALL, but would anyone change his/her mind about this if we used orphan babies? They don't have mommies to be separated from.
Replied: 6/26/2008 1:26pm.
IMO, even worse. They have already suffered a terrible loss. Doing something like this would be like taking someone who had been in a car wreck, and dropping an iron on their leg. Legitimate question, though. These are the kinds of questions I am hoping we will talk about on the ethics board, along with talking about the personal stands we take.
Replied: 6/26/2008 2:53pm.
Got an answer to this First, how many waking hours a day did the parents spend with their children? -x*-x*-x*-x*-x*-x*-x*
No, we did not go over to cuddle the babies off camera. You saw Wiley, on camera, go talk to the teens, and get to cuddle with Miley. And Kristy went to speak to Alicea and was able to talk to Carson a little at that time. I was the only mom who was still nursing, so I specifically asked that Etta not even be in the room while I was speaking to the teens. Any nursing mother knows that babies can sense and/or smell their mothers' milk just from being in their presence. Knowing that I was around, but not taking her with me when I left would have been detrimental to Etta. Although I desperately wanted to hug her and kiss her, I truly felt that she was serving a greater good by being there. There is so much off camera that you aren't able to see when they have to condense the footage down for the show. Every day, Etta was so content with Sean and really had an awesome relatioship with him. At night, after I spoke with him on the first evening, Sean stayed up and walked around with Etta. He sat on the couch while she slept peacefully on his chest, etc. He "nursed" her with her breast bottle in the same position that I do, using my own milk. He really did a phenomenal job with her, he just had to have that rocky start to grow a little.
Natalie--Etta's mom