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Medical experts want baby reality show taken off US television
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
4 July 2008
The US version of 'The Baby Borrowers', based on the UK reality television programme, has been criticised by American medical experts who want it taken off air.
The programme, which separates babies and toddlers from their parents and places them in the care of unfamiliar teenage couples for three days, has been condemned by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP). The Academy said that it could cause the children stress and anxiety and make them distrust their primary caregiver. ‘The Baby Borrowers’ appeared on the NBC network in June and was an instant success, with the first...
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