Adoption Institute Criticizes FOX Reality Show‘Who's Your Daddy?’

In December, Fox television announced the release of a new reality television show, “Who’s Your Daddy,” in which an adult adoptee interviews eight men to determine which of them is her biological father. If she guesses right, she wins $100,000; if she fails, the contestant who fooled her gets the cash. The Adoption Institute quickly issued a press release calling the show “insensitive and offensive.” Executive Director Adam Pertman and Policy Director Hollee McGinnis wrote commentaries on the controversial program, published in the Christian Science Monitor and Los Angeles Times. In addition, Pertman commented on the show in scores of television, radio and print stories including Reuters, the Chicago Sun Times and the Seattle Times, as well as in international newspapers in Australia, Ireland, Pakistan and the U.K. To read the Adoption Institute’s two press releases on the subject, go to: http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/pressrelease/200412_foxrelease.html and http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/pressrelease/20041229_foxrelease.html ; to read the commentary in the Christian Science Monitor, go to: http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/commentary/20041220_csmon_oped.html ; to read the commentary in the Los Angeles Times, go to: http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/commentary/20041221_latimes_oped.html

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