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For what the format entails, no it isn't, IMO. It may well be that people are happy-clappy about dating but that isn't the format itself. The kids watching the parents is plain weird. As for them making decisions, how does that work if they supposedly don't know they're doing it? Seeing other parents and saying "he/she's nice" and the producers try to pair them up?

The parents know they’re on a TV show and that they’re being filmed. So I don’t see what’s weird about the kids watching them. The parents might not know they’re being watched there and then but they know they’re being filmed and the kids will inevitably see it all on the TV anyway so it’s not exactly private.