The Baby Borrowers: new reality TV show

Have you been watching The Baby Borrowers if so what do you think of the new reality show? On the Baby Borrowers five teenage couples are encouraged to find a job, establish a home and then become responsible parents to first a baby, then a toddler, then a preteen and finally a teenager all in the course of three weeks. Now I have watched this show in the past and a lot of the couples have found it very hard but saying that some have enjoyed it and have found it very helpful.

In the opening show the would-be mothers are enrolled in prenatal classes and given a simulated “empathy” belly, to prepare them for the arrival of their new baby. Then volunteer parents, some of whom were teen parents themselves, give each couple a real baby and all the babies in the show are between six and 11 months old with presumably social workers, nannies and family minders hovering in the background in case the teenagers can not cope or don’t know what to do.

How do you think that this batch of teenagers will do?

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