Game Show Orphans

A game show in Pakistan, Amaan Ramazan, has begun giving away orphaned girls as prizes. Infant girls....game show prizes....

Let's let that sink in.

I'm actually conflicted by this concept. On one hand there is a child that has been taken off the street and placed into a home. However, this is a girl that will be raised in a home where the parents may not have known they were going to be given a child. Not to mention that this is a girl that will now be raised in a religiously strict environment where women are not always seen as equals. 

The producers of the show have stated that the contestant couples are screened and vetted repeatedly before being allowed to take their prize home.

I just hope the attitude toward games shows is true; that they are rigged. Perhaps some of these couples really want to have a child.

The Mirror reports:
"The babies used were presented by the Chhipa Welfare Association, a charity which rescues abandoned babies. Its organiser Muhammad Ramzan Chhipa explained: “We have lots of babies that are just abandoned, left in the garbage or other dirty places. Often we just find the bodies so our message is to tell people to bring their babies to us, don’t leave them.”
He said the show’s lucky couples had previously approached his organisation to adopt children, although he did not discuss how they were vetted."

The full article can be found here: 

 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/who-wants-win-baby-bizarre-2090386#ixzz2aeEs1jDF

One report stated that children who are abandoned in Pakistan will either die from starvation or the elements, be attacked or killed by wild animals. They can also grow up as street children that are easily recruited by terrorists to become suicide bombers.

So, what will it be? Killed by wild dogs, street urchin who my or may not become a violent radical or grow up in a home where women are severely repressed, beaten and/or, in some fun instances,  married at the age of 10 to a man in his 60s?? 

The middle east is no place for women and girls. This game show keeps the babies safe from nature but not from the dangers of the local culture.