The New Show Baby Borrowers...

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Have any of you seen this new reality show on Wednesday nights at 8pm? I was switching through the channels the other night and I came across it and it's actually an interesting idea. Here's basically what they're trying to do with it: They take these teen couples, where the girls in the relationship feel they're ready to have a baby, and they stick the couples in their own house (each couple has a seperate house but all the houses are in one neighborhood)and the they put them through the stages of parenting. First, they start off having to wear pregnancy bellies, then they borrow these babies from parents who have signed up to work on the experiment (I know these parents are probably getting paid pft...)and they have to take care of these babies day and night for three days while the parents look on from a tv monitor in a seperate house in the same neighborhood. There is a nanny in the house for each couple and on hand in case of emergencies and the parents can step in whenever they feel like they need to. After the baby stage they go on to toddlers, then pre-teens, then the teens and then GET THIS, the elderly. I relly don't get the elderly part because by the time their kids are elderly, the kids will be taking care of them but I guess the idea is to teach them the responsibility of caring for another human being. Also, while one of them stays home to take care of the babies and ect...the other has to go to work, interesting... I do have to say, however, that if I were a parent, I don't think I would lend my baby out to a bunch of teens for three days, whether I was watching close by or not. A lot of these babies seemed real shaken by it and they kept crying because they were with total strangers and they were being handled by people who had no clue what they were doing. A lot of the parents said that they did it because they were teen parents themselves and they wished that they had had an opportunity beforehand to know what it was going to be like. For that, I respect them. Still, I don't think I would hand off my baby to a bunch of teens, even if I were right accross the street and could step in at any moment.... In any case, after watching these couple's struggles and then watching them give up and say they weren't ready for parenting just after the first baby stage, I started to understand what it is (besides ratings and money) that the network was going for and that is to show these kids that parenting is not fun and games and it's A LOT of very hard work. I think this show is not only a great experiment for those taking part in it but for all the young teens watching the show as well. You have to watch an episode to understand what I mean here. Here's the YouTube link to the intro... http://youtube.com/watch?v=asbeykh9Be8 In any case, what is everyone's opinion on this show and do you think it: 1)Will work 2)Is it a good idea 3)what do you think about people lending out their babies to these teens as an experiment I would love to hear all of your opinions on this one!