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When I was a teen, the adults around me had a funny, serious and thought provoking way of informing us about teen pregnancy. We heard things like: you could become pregnant if you kissed a boy, or if a boy touched your little finger he would tell his friends he more or less had his way with you or your body, but most of all, becoming pregnant out of wedlock and while still a teenager would bring great embarrassment to you and your family.
And just when someone must have thought the teen pregnancy issue was becoming sort of manageable, we heard about the seventeen teens who supposedly made a pregnancy pact. It was a news story that shocked the nation, and as one wonders what more can be done to help curb the teen pregnancy issue, NBC came up with a reality show that might indeed send a message.
The show titled: The Baby Borrowers has a simple enough plot. Teenage couples are placed in charge of new born babies, so they would see first hand, what taking care of a baby is really all about.
And in a world in which most teens who become pregnant leave the nurturing of their new borns up to their own mothers or grandmothers, maybe this NBC show will deter some teens from even thinking of becoming mothers at such a young age.
For in this NBC reality show, as far as one can tell from the previews, it is the teens who are in charge of the diaper changing, feeding, bathing and babysitting of the babies. Not some older and experienced relative who comes to the rescue when the inexperienced teenage mother/father is acting as though she/he is freaked out by all the responsibility of what it takes to actually be a parent.
Maybe the teen pregnancy issue will never be in a situation in which there are no teen pregnancy cases in the world, but if educating teens about safe sex has not seemed to make a big enough impact, maybe, just maybe having some of these teen parents take care of their own new borns twenty four seven just might do something.
Maybe the folks at NBC had the right idea after all.
And for those of you who are interested, the reality show, The Baby Borrowers will air on NBC in a few days, June 25th 2008 at 8:00 PM central time.
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Peace and unity begin with all of us- Judy Ramsook
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