Maury Show

I'm watching Maury now at 2nd Avenue. Yeah, it's obvious I'm a TV addict. I guess I'm just compensating for the times I was too tired to even turn on the TV.

Boy, these Americans can be freaky. I hope the freakiest ones are just fabricated, but it seems that people can be...er, creative in their lives also. So far what I caught in the show are:

• A 38 year-old white woman is engaged to a 24 year-old black dude. Her instincts are telling her he had been cheating on her, and that he might be a man-whore for free cigarettes, mp3 players and a laptop. She said she's been too distressed that she can't eat, can't sleep.
  
• As a trap, Maury's team put the guy into a limo with a lady-decoy pretending that she's one of the guests for the show. It took the guy 13 minutes before he started lip-locking with her.
  
• So no surprise when lie-detectors divulge that this guy had cheated with 5 women, 25 times.
  
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• A woman's husband is a pimp and had been cheating with her.
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• An angry man subjected his wife to Maury, and his lie-detecting machines, to check if she had cheated and is cheating on him.
  
• He believes that their 3 children are not his, and has been alienating them.
  
• Guess what, his wife never cheated.
  
• Well, in support of his truth, I hope he settles his issues before his children end up like him or like the other freaks featured in the show.

What I can't get is why do some of these people need to bring their case to national (and international TV) when they know that they would revealing embarrassing and degrading facts and secrets about themselves. Can't they just settle this in court or with a family or marriage counselor?