Also-Known-As tells Fox Not to Ask, Whos Your Daddy?"

Along with several other groups and organizations in the adoption community, Also-Known-As is asking Fox Entertainment not to air Whos Your Daddy?" as planned on January 3, 2005.

(PRWEB) December 23, 2004 -- Along with several other groups and organizations in the adoption community, Also-Known-As is asking Fox Entertainment not to air Whos Your Daddy?" as planned on January 3, 2005.

Because adoptees are often exploited Also-Known-As has asked that the Fox Network not further use adopted people for sensational, self-serving melodrama. Although a Fox representative has attempted to defend the planned program on Entertainment Tonight by saying that all the people on were consenting adults, we contend that this claim ignores the fact that adoptees are denied the right of access to their own birth records in most states, and may be driven to such extremes as allowing this kind of exploitation, only out of desperation.

The game show/reality show format of Whos Your Daddy?" does not treat this subject with the respect that it deserves and cheapens adoption and the search for biological parents and turns it into a strange contest for money. According to Reuters, A young woman given up for adoption as a child will try to pick her long lost biological father from a line up of impostors on a new Fox TV show called Who's Your Daddy? If she guesses correctly she will win S100,000." If she chooses incorrectly the men will split the money between them.

Also-Known-As is a non-profit organization that serves the entire adoption community of adoptees, biological parents, birth parents, extended families, and friends. Founded in 1996, Also-Known-As has helped to organize international conferences and is recognized as a leading organization of adult adoptees.

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