More than a few commenters on my "pregnancy pact" post suggested that the teens in questions watch "The Baby Borrowers"
– a reality show debuting tomorrow night on NBC in which five teenage
couples care for, in turn, an infant, toddler, teen and older person.
Does
this sound like a ginormous trainwreck to anyone else? – and not the
VH1-type celeb-reality type trainwreck that's so bad it's almost funny,
but an actual horrendously bad idea?
First, the idea is to let
these teenage couple test out if their relationship can withstand the
rigors of parenthood. Hello. I don’t need to have watched a minute of
the show to tell you no they can't – and if they can, so what?
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