What is your opinion of "Adoption Stories" TV series?

Nauseatingly difficult to watch.

It makes me sick. It's a perfect depiction, however, of what most people think adoption is: a story that begins not when child needs a home, but when one or two people want a child.

The worst episodes are the ones that start with a "Dear Birthmother" letter and end with an adoptive parent in the delivery room, cutting the cord, and then actually handing the mother a stuffed animal to cuddle in place of the baby. This "here's a teddy bear for your trouble, Lady" ritual makes me physically ill.

Only a little better are the ones in which people adopt internationally. We get to visit the child's Exotic Birthplace!

Yeah, I had to quit watching.

The first time I saw it (many years ago) a 40+ year old woman housed an expectant mom, who give birth in the tub at the request of the PAP, the when the child was born, the PAP put the baby straight to her breast using a milk supplement kit. I was in shock, I felt like the expectant mother was exploited.

I think it's coercive and just sad.

Exploitive.

I am extremely uncomfortable with reality shows about children, since young kids lack the ability to consent or revoke consent to have their most private moments shown on television. It's one thing for adults, but it seems like an invasion when it comes to the lives of children.

I'm not comfortable with parents choosing to share their children's stories with a media audience, since they can't get informed permission from the child (a child can't fully understand the implications of what they're agreeing to, even if they verbalize agreement, and can't know how it may follow them their whole life to have this information known.)

Children should be kept out of the media spotlight; that should be for adults who choose it.

Coercive, exploitive, morally wrong. And to the answer talking about bringing a camera into a special moment... pfffft. Special is not what I would call that point in time where I was at the lowest moment of my life where I actually had to relinquish my newborn for adoption. There are so many other descriptive words to be chosen.

I take a dim view of reality TV shows in general, but especially ones that involve children. Children cannot give consent to having very intimate moments of their lives broadcasted and spotlighted.

Hi Julie,

Not a fan.

I personally LIKE it.Sure, I will get thumbs down for this opinion, but I really can care less.

This show has actually encouraged me too look into foster care adoption.

it actually turned me against inter-racial adoption....

all those stories of kids being uprooted from their home.

not cool