Is This As Bad As It Seems At First Sight?

[sandyRoe]

Initial reaction might be to think this is dreadful. But the babies could be brought up in loving families instead of in institutions where any type of affection would be thin on the gpound.

http://www.dbtechno.com/curiosity/2013/07/26/game-show-used-babies-as-prizes/

[emmie]

as bad and in fact worse than it sounds. There are proper channels for adoption i am sure, this is not the way to do it.

[rockyracoon]

This is awful, winning a baby in a game show is definitely scrapping the bottom of the humanity barrel.

[sandyRoe]

I'm sure we've all seen news items where animals abandoned in particularly cruel circumstances have been rescued. They are always lots of offers of a good home.
A good outcome can come from a bad action. If these babies were brought up in a family home would it not be better for them than being raised in an orphanage?

[Sharingan]

I'd like to refer everybody to a comment underneath this by someone who speaks the language before any furthyer hysterics ensue. If this really has been so badly misreported ( and I'll be getting a translation done later by a friend to see) then this really is a shcoking piece of non journalism, cuynically put together. Meanwhile I'm not going to get upset about soemthing which i don't think is what it appears to be. the comment is as follows:-
Fauzia Khan · Manchester, United Kingdom
I am disgusted at the false reporting of this story. The presenter very rightly described that the the babies were being dumped on rubbish tips, becaue a they may have been born out of wedlock, b the motehr couldn't lookk after her and c more dispicably when parents do not want a girl. the presenter very rightly CONDEMEND THIS PRACTICE.
Lastly and mor seriously he said quite clearly that with the adoption agency they had FOUND parents to look after the child. Therefore they were not giving the child away as a prize , but had already found parents and were presenting the baby to the parents on the TV show. There is a very good reason for this. Firstly it is to discourage the throwing away of babies on rubbish tips- people were being urged not to do this but to leave it with the adoption agency so that more deserving parents could look after it. Secondly he very correctly outlines that many of the children are girls and that not valuing girls is incorrect, as The Prophet Peace be Upon him said that they girls were a mercy and must be treated with respect.
What the show has tried to do is to stop the shameful act of dumping babies by shaming those concerned and getting those unwanted children into loving homes.
There was no prize giving in this clip or nor was it even implied.
Shameful western media reporting.

[Sharingan]

Flumming typos- I hate this tablet- sorry :(

[Peter Pedant]

Jayzus sandy - I thought it was gonna be about selling babies,
but I note that it is just about the much less reprehensible practice of just giving them away....

[murraymints]

Why aren't the same folk going to orphanages for a baby instead of on a game show ?

[Sharingan]

If you read the comment, they did Murray- the orphanage approved them as adoptive parents and they were ' presented' with their new baby on the TV show to highlight what a terrible practice it is to dump babies.

[murraymints]

Oh dear ...doesn't sound good..poor child learning they were a prize on telly !

[murraymints]

Vultures for cultures I suppose...if it is deemed acceptable practice there..then can we apply western morality ?

[Sharingan]

Well if the person who posted the comment is correct ( and I will get the clip translated later to see) then all that actually happened is some people went to an orphange and were approved as parents and agreed to adopt the babies. Then to highlight the problem of abandoned babies they went on a popular show where the host underlined what a terrible practice it is and were presented with their adoptive daughters to show there is no stigma in girl children. I really don't see anything wrong with any of that, in fact it seems like a good thing.

[murraymints]

Just doesn't seem very British like shar..but if it does some good who are we to question the practice ...

[pixie373]

It sounds awful. There are better ways to highlight problems than using babies that way.

[Baldric]

I think a couple of people up there ^^^^ have not taken in all the available info before posting,
however that doesn't mean I think it's OK either!

[Sharingan]

I think the issue of the abandonment and killing of girl children is such a terrible cultural problem that anyway it can be highlighted and pitched as an unacceptable practice is great. Granted it seems an odd thing to us to go on a show to be presented with your new adoptive child, but these people are progressive in wanting to adopt a girl child, and if that is glamourised on TV then it might go some way to combating the next generation of people who think it's culturally acceptable to kill or abandon a child simply because of it's sex. It's not very British, but then it's not percieved as a very British problem, although it is. I'm in pre production of a film addressing the same problem in the Asian community in the UK and I actually think it's quite a good thing for Pakistani TV to be tackling this head on even if it is somewhat sensationalised.

[Old_Geezer]

Sounds like an excuse to me.

[tamborine]

Edicating & supplying girls with the Pill should be the WHO priority.

[naomi24]

Tamborine, in most instances, unless it’s for medical reasons, observant Muslims don’t use birth control.

[netibiza]

tamborine: It should be the boys that are educated about sex and preventative methods, they should be taught not to rape.