Thursday C4

[Maria2]

Have been on chat tonight so am putting this on here as suggested....

Did anyone watch last Thursday the prog titled "Making Babies - the Gay way"? It is on again this week.

I had seen the trailer to this program and must admit I had a bit of a wry smile to myself....maybe that was me just being very narrow minded.

I had read the stories in the papers about the two men Barry and Tony who had selected and egg donor and (for the want of a better word) an incubator, for their babies. But as I watched this program, my opinion of these two men drastically changed.

Yes, i know what the church or bible says but these two had me laughing and the prog also showed that they were a couple in very sense of the word. The children had a nanny so they had the influence of a "mother" figure but most important of all, they were growing up in such a loving and wanted environment.

There was another case of two women in a relationship who wanted a baby (the elder of the two already being a mother of six children at the age of 38 and her partner being 22 years of age and not having had any other children) and had gone through the Internet to find a spem donor. This I didn't and couldn't accept, not because they were women but because they had taken just a "donor".

I don't know really and do not want to put many more of my opinions on here but am looking forward to next Thursday and to what anyone else may have thought to this program if they had seen it.

[Annabel]

is it a series then maria?

i like programmes like this that are basically about societal issues and people who live outside what is the perceived norm.

[Maria2]

Don't know how many weeks its on for, i thought it was only the one I think mazza said it was on again this week. Barrie and Tony have just had another baby and the other couple are about to have theirs. So as it was left open last week i am sure there must be more to come.

[Annabel]

Caught just a tiny bit of this last night...the male couple are very well off and I do think this will mean that their kids will be absolutely fine...

not so sure about the lesbian pair, mind you i did only see a tiny bit, but i have to have my doubts about a woman with six kids who then becomes a lesbian and has another kid with her partner..who is very much younger than her.....i feel quite flummoxed by that, as did the woman's mother...this might sound really bad, but i just wonder how she could have been married for so long and had so many kids...unless the having of kids was herattempt to deflect from her inner turmoil...or something like that!

oooh im waffling so ill just go!!!

[mazza]

I like to kep an open mind about all this, although the lesbians' situation doesn't really sit well with me from what you are saying :( .

I was wanting to watch this, but it clashes with Celeb!!! Oh, what a dilemma...I am just hoping E4 will repeat it sometime so I can catch it in full :) .

Sounds very intriguing!