New Adoption Storyline Planned on MTV's True Life Series

In theory, this is a great idea, and needs to be addressed. There are all too many babies literally (and figurativly) being thrown away in dumpsters, garbage cans, hospitals, etc.

My concern is how MTV is going to present this. Are the birth parents going to be presented as crackheads and trailor trash?Maybe rich bitch girls whose parents are sweeping the baby under the rug (OMG, what will the neighbors say)? Or, are they going to be presented in a more positive light, people whose birth control failed, or the young mother whose husband died tragically, and doesn’t have the resources or the courage to raise the child on her own?

How are the adoptive parents going to be present? Look at how wonderful I am by adopt-ing this poor helpless orphan, or I can’t conceive and I’m entitled to be happy raising a child. Or will they be presented as people who are truly concerned and want to make a positive difference in the child’s and birth parents lives?

One thing I didn’t mention before, this would probably be presented better by the Hallmark or the Lifetime Networks. I imagine they would be more tactful and tasteful than MTV. Time will tell, though.

OK, having lived through the adoptive parent side and faced 2 failed “open” adoptions and then successfully adopting my son in a closed adoption, I can’t imagine either side wanting to go through this on camera. It is very traumatic for both sides. No matter what the decision of the birth mother, it is traumatic for all involved. I was not angry with the birthmoms who backed out and took children away from me, but I can’t even imagine the devistation of going through this and then having it watched on cable television. There is already a show called “adotion stories” that covers the documentary type stories. A reality show? Yikes! The tv execs need a reality check! (My son will be 8 years old in 1 month & I remember the events like it happened this morning!)

Dear MTV Producers,

According to the infant traffickers and their industry promotions, a vulnerable pregnant person is a ‘birthmother.’ That is, an exploitable fertile female who can be targeted, tracked, trapped, tricked, and turned into a sexually reproductive slave who becomes ostensibly ‘willing’ to hand over her first born BEFORE she ever sees or holds her son or daughter. That these highly sophisticated infant traffickers/sexually violent slavers don’t ensnare EVERY vulnerable pregnant person is evident in the manufactured hatred of unmanned motherhood, the manipulation of pregnancy prevention and declarations and judgments against pro-choice organizations and their clients. Now MTV wants to assist in the carnage?

Are you mistaken in the use of industry terminology? For example, A pregnant person is NOT a mother: She cannot ‘give away’ her future offspring since she has no baby to give to anyone. She cannot give away her pregnancy. Nor once she attains motherhood can she magically bestow it upon strangers. She will either become a mother or she will not (via termination).

Who would want to, much less voluntarily become the mother of a missing child – missing and vanished as in legally kidnapped? The deliberate targeting of vulnerable (socially and economically oppressed) pregnant girls for the purpose of harvesting their womb-fresh newborns for transfer to elite-but-infertile buyers can in no way be of benefit to any child. The deliberate manufacture of such pseudo-orphans and empty-armed new mothers amounts to the most sexually violent genocidal business ever inflicted upon Womankind.

Perhaps you should consider doing a series on pseudo-intimacy, that is, forced intercourse also known as rape. Let the women ’speak about their process.’ Maybe you can convince your viewers to begin to consider that manufactured choice and even satisfaction in rape can exist. After all, like every baby-hungry adopter-wanna-be targeting some young victim’s womb, isn’t the rapist just a man looking to engage in a little intimacy with his victims genitalia? When motherhood and sex are so very natural and so very human, whose to blame for such predatory predilections?

In the crimes of sexual violence against women who are deliberately and systematically rendered powerless, infant-harvesting is without equal. Don’t ever believe that anyone consents to or has the capacity to consent to such soul-corrosive dehumanizing agony.

I am going actually going to be on the show True Life: I’m placing my baby for adoption and I would like you to know that I did not give my baby up for adoption and I did not feel any pressure to whatsoever. The producer Craig was very sensitive about the whole thing and made a huge point about not effecting my decision in any way whatsoever.

THIS IS NOT A MOVIE OF THE WEEK meant to trivialize the lives of the young women considering a placement for their children. We are adoptive parents and part of the service where one of the young women was working with the adoptive parents and know from witnessing the filming and knowing all of the players on camera and off there was no pressure to place … it will be interesting to see the final edited outcome of the show but no there was very good intentions by MTV to really follow the story with integrity!

Lisa,

It probably would have been a good thing to read the update where I interviewed MTV and got more information regarding the project!

I don’t see your update but have since viewed the show and hope everyone can now see it wasn’t a project taken to sensationalize the story of adoption from the young women’s point of view. The hope is everyone can have a better understanding of what decisions come into play when making an adoption placement. We have open adoptions for our two daughters and like Kayla both young women struggled with their decisions and we are very pleased on how well MTV let Kayla tell her story about her baby.

More information from the interview can be seen here.

I look forward to viewing the show. Wonder what birth mothers thought?