Fox’s ‘Trading Spouses’ conducting open casting calls for more families - Reality TV World

Here’s my thought. Since the name of the show is Trading Spouses and not Trading Moms (let’s ignore the subtitle of Meet Your New Mommy since they’ve already blown that by switching dads next week), I vote we take a married, childfree-by-choice woman and switch her with a married woman who has a litter of children. Of course, there’s no way in Hell I’d do that but…for $50k? Well, maybe. Let’s see…we could use new landscaping for the front yard…new carpeting…I don’t have a flat-panel TV for my home office…that would be nice. With my luck though, the other Traded Spouse would blow the entire wad of cash on counseling for my husband and I to figure out what happened during our childhoods that made us not want to populate the world. That, or she’d realize what a great catch my husband is and have the locks changed on my house.

Let the poor CBC woman deal with kids for a week and let the mom live a lifestyle sans children for a week…and see what happens. Sure, there are less proverbial mouths to feed to share the $50,000 but wouldn’t that be an interesting socio-economic experiment? See if the grass truly is greener on the other side, which is what Fox implores us to believe is the challenge of the program. For years people have been badgering me, telling me how empty my life is and pointing out what I’m missing by not raising children. They tell me, “Don’t worry…you’ll change your mind.” The proof is in the pudding. Come on Fox, bring it on! Get controversial! You did it with Married By America, you can do it again!

But, if we did this sort of non-traditional switcheroo, there would be less kids to watch while shaking our heads in disillusionment and commenting, “Well, you can tell how those poor kids are going to turn out.” But then again, no matter how much fun the mom might have, she’ll go on and on and on and on about how much she misses her kids because, if she didn’t, well that would be downright un-American and she’d probably be stoned by her carpool group.