Comments on: TV vs. babymaking

By: SuperSub

SuperSub — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:55:16 +0000

Marcos-
I’m assuming that your reply was meant for me, so here I go.

Some societies don’t share our values primarily because their governments have effectively isolated them from the rest of the world. The Communists did it, and the Islamists are currently doing it.
By values I do not mean consumerism, but instead individual liberty, good will, and acceptance towards others, all of which the West embrace. Any society that places the same value on human life as many of these Islamist nations does not deserve to exist.
Human civilization has improved over the past 10,000 years because of advances made by dominant societies that have spread. The US should not force their culture on unwilling societies, but they sure as heck should give the opportunity to learn to those who have been cut off from the rest of the world.
The ones who are fooling and raping (literally) these societies are their own leaders… and you can add in theft, intimidation, kidnapping, oh, and let’s not forget murder.
Soemthing tells me that those given the opportunity to learn from Western culture will appreciate the absence of these types of violence and daily bomb explosions.

By: marcos

marcos — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:59:04 +0000

Oh, yeah! good idea to drop tvs on every poor corner of the world, so they can have a taste of the glorious civilized countries and try to become good american or european people (of course unsuccesfully).
Let’s deculturize people and make them wish things they can’t have because the civilized people need their natural resources for better purposes, for better cars and much more fun than to reduce poverty or disease or their own wantings in their own coutries. Anyway, who turns on the tv to watch things of their own city or country when you can see others complete different from your reality?
Poor people need no education. They need entertainment, because this make them spend money and make the riches richer. Therefore, those ignorant folks need tv to teach them to need cool things.
The last thing poor people need is to know how much they were, since colonization, explored, enslaved, raped and fooled, and still are, by the civilized people.

a Brazilian.

By: Wyatt

Wyatt — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:51:06 +0000

It was shot in Idaho, so I wonder what the state laws are there. Although, I think they didn’t pay them, so maybe the rules don’t apply.

By: GoogleMaster

GoogleMaster — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:10:39 +0000

IIRC, there are strict laws? regulations? — rules, anyway — restricting the number of hours that child actors can work. The limitations for babies are even stricter.

Ah, it’s a state law. Slate ran an article that explains the law in California.

“In California, infants under 6 months are allowed on-set for two hours a day, but their actual workday can’t exceed 20 minutes.”

By: pmichellej

pmichellej — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:00:14 +0000

The one aspect of this show I hadn’t really thought about was the fact that there are parent loaning out thier children for this show. I guess that’s a bit scary giving your kid up to teens for awhile to have them babysit. I wonder how long they had the kid and how long they watched it?

By: Wyatt

Wyatt — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:49:03 +0000

Hopefully, yeah. I saw one teen on there say she wants to have kids at 18 just like her parents. No way I could have been an effective parent at 18! Cannot even imagine. My sister had kids at 17 and she has so many things she wasn’t able to do with her life, and her kids were pretty messed up aas well.

By: Rob Miller

Rob Miller — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:59:09 +0000

I think this show will be wildly entertaining, and if it wakes up even one teen and makes them reconsider getting pregnant at a young age then it is worth being on television.

By: Wyatt

Wyatt — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:36:26 +0000

I hope it wakes some teens up, but will it make them want to have abortions? I’ll be watching, though.

By: Jeanie

Jeanie — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:44:44 +0000

I really like the concept for the Baby Borrowers show- So many bratty teens need a reality check. Put on a condom, kid!

By: pmichellej

pmichellej — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:46:22 +0000

I think this show sounds really good and raises a lot of questions for our society. Itâ€™s kind of controversial. Should we be promoting birth control on tv? Should we be teaching teens about having babies? And what should they do if they are preganant, is this show saying they should adopt the baby out? And what about the people who gave these teens their kids to use for the show? Iâ€™ll be watching.