A new TV show airing this spring.
Ben who, in his 20s, becomes a surprise dad to a baby girl when she’s left on his doorstep by an ex-girlfriend. Ben decides to raise the baby with the help of his mother, his brother, his best buddy and his close female friend, who is harboring a secret crush on him.
How odd that when we have a national crisis of men in their 20s walking away from their children, a new TV show would feature a fictional father willing to raise his child whose mother walked away.
Categories: Fatherhood
Single father by choice? Single father by biology? He could have given his child up for adoption. Is this a good message? Or not so good?
There have always been comedies about the wacky idea of men raising kids without a mom. The current sit-com “Raising Hope” is about a young guy raising his daughter, after the mother (a one-night stand) is executed for murder. Another recent example was “Two and a Half Men.” But if you go back in time, there were movies like the “Three Men And a Baby” series, and older sitcoms like “My Two Dads.”
I think it’s supposed to be funny because — in the producers minds, at least — it’s a “man bites dog” scenario.
Baby Daddy.
What a horrible name for a TV show. When people who don’t talk that way naturally say Baby Momma or Baby Daddy its because they think only a husband can be a father and not being married means they don’t care about their children and that not being married is irresponsible and a sign of low intelligence, poor breeding and a general lack of motivation to do anything for themselves or their children but sit back and collect welfare while the rest of America plays by the rules and does things right. Its arrogant as hell that’s what it is and the producers should be thinking harder about the message they send with a title like that. And I am not talking about political correctness I’m talking about good old fashioned all American Politeness. It’s not polite to make fun of the way people talk or to act all like you think your smarter than them. Its rude. I don’t care if Rude lines up with Politically correct or not its also rude to bald face lie and pussy foot around the truth by using delicate words. But my baby’s father is not at all inaccurate for a mother to refer to the father of her child as her child’s father if she’s not married to him. It shows she still expects him to take care of her child. They should not poke fun at her grammar or whatever the way she says it, there is nothing wrong with the underlying words she uses and its quite superior to make fun of her pronunciation kinda lame.
The topic of the show sounds fine. It sounds like it shows a father doing what he should do whether the mother is around or not. He should take care of his child.
No Karen we want people to realize that fatherhood and motherhood don’t turn on the relationship to the other parent they turn on the relationship to the child. That message needs to be driven home so what happened to you or Stephanie or Alana stops.
pinochio
heidi
courtship of eddies father
the nanny
different strokes
Archie Bunker’s place
who’s the boss
silver spoons
The Love Boat (captin Stubing and his lovely daughter Vicky double bonus)
Sitcoms about working class marriages have always been popular from the Honeymooners to King of Queens. As marriage evaporates from working class communities will such stories continue to find an audience? A “comedy” about a waitress with three kids who has a revolving door of boyfriends, whom she supports until their laziness/abuse/infidelity becomes intolerable doesn’t sound very funny. Also, I think that watching live-in lovers quarrel won’t be as compelling as the squabbles of a married couple. The humor of the marital sitcom is based on the value that marriage is held to. I don’t think the petty arguments of a cohabiting couple will intriguing enough to be funny.