New network television series: "the baby borrowers"

The idea behind the show is to give teen couples an opportunity to experience juggling career, primary relationship (i.e. marriage) and parenting. The parents of the babies "lent" their own babies to the young couples/ then observed the teens on close circuit t.v.

 Then professional nannies observe the teens only stepping in in an emergency. Some teens are doing better than others. Alicia seems like a fairly angry teen with a pretty bad attitude. I'm surprised the parents are still letting her even be in the same house with their child. It can't be good for that child. 

 the mother had a frank talk with Alicia who is pissed that the mother expressed her views, so refuses to care for the child and is letting her boyfriend do all of the work.

One major critique that I have of this show is: if you're going to show what it's like to be in the "real world" let's BE real about wages.

The teens are in a fancy house in a quiet suburb. They are being paid wages higher than what is paid in the real world for certain jobs. For example, all teens who go out to work are making more than 10 an hour. THey are making 500 a week. This is not enough to afford a reliable car and a house in a safe neighborhood.

  But on top of that, in the real world, the boy who has been given the coffeehouse job, would be making 6 an hour and he and his girlfriend teen would be homeless and raising a baby on that wage especially since one teen is the "stay at home" parent. Even at the 500 a week that the show is paying the teens, that would not be enough to afford a 1 bedroom apt. in a safe neighborhood in Baltimore unless they pay well over 25% of their incomes in rent.

Have you seen "the baby borrowers"?

What are your thoughts?