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Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Talk About Repulsive!!!
If you've been reading my blog for more than a month and a half, you know that I'm adopted. And, I've attempted to contact both of my birth parents (stories for another day- not all stories are happy ones, you know?) So, I think I can speak with some knowledge on this topic.
In a nutshell... Fox has a new show called "Who's Your Daddy?" They found a woman who had been adopted and then found her birth father plus several other guys... if she figures out who her birth father is, she gets $100,000.
This is so upsetting to me on so many levels that I'm almost speechless. I can almost imagine the woman's motivation to do this- I mean, I'm sure Fox picked up the bill for the search, which can really add up. And, if it ends up that she finds him and all is good, then that's a good thing, right? But, what about the birth father? It just doesn't make sense to me.
But, mostly, I'm upset about them turning a very emotional process into a game. It cheapens everything about it. The process becomes just another freak show for people to watch once a week. That is truly sad. Fox claims that it was put together with the best of intentions, and that people's lives were changed for the better. For everyone's sake, I hope they're right.
While searching for my birth parents, I went through almost every emotion I can think of. The idea of doing that in front of television cameras is beyond anything I can imagine. I hope the woman and her birth father knew what they were getting into when they signed on for this.
Then again, having gone through the search, I can tell you that they had no idea what they were getting into. There is no way of knowing that.
In a nutshell... Fox has a new show called "Who's Your Daddy?" They found a woman who had been adopted and then found her birth father plus several other guys... if she figures out who her birth father is, she gets $100,000.
This is so upsetting to me on so many levels that I'm almost speechless. I can almost imagine the woman's motivation to do this- I mean, I'm sure Fox picked up the bill for the search, which can really add up. And, if it ends up that she finds him and all is good, then that's a good thing, right? But, what about the birth father? It just doesn't make sense to me.
But, mostly, I'm upset about them turning a very emotional process into a game. It cheapens everything about it. The process becomes just another freak show for people to watch once a week. That is truly sad. Fox claims that it was put together with the best of intentions, and that people's lives were changed for the better. For everyone's sake, I hope they're right.
While searching for my birth parents, I went through almost every emotion I can think of. The idea of doing that in front of television cameras is beyond anything I can imagine. I hope the woman and her birth father knew what they were getting into when they signed on for this.
Then again, having gone through the search, I can tell you that they had no idea what they were getting into. There is no way of knowing that.
