I find these shows hit me in a really personal place, my husband was a teen father. His ex put him through the ringer, cheated on him, manipulated him via his child, she used to refuse to let him see his son unless she was there and when he would come over, she would call her bf to come over and she'd take the bf into her room and have loud sex whilst he sat in the lounge room on the floor playing with his son with tears in his eyes. She would send him email a10 paragraphs long abusing him once every few weeks, or hours of phone calls he'd just sit and listen to abuse and demands because he wanted to placate her, and this was 6 years after breaking up. We just went through so much aggression and heartbreak all because she felt she had no control over her life and needed it, via scapegoating him and bad mouthing him and causing chaos in people's lives doing silly things like saying we can't take him to the zoo until she does it first, and then causing so much disruption you'd just give in so you didn't have to see your kid study in the middle. She finally settled down when her husband turned out to be a complete shit, and she got professional counselling for her anxiety. I'm probably going to delete this later but seeing the pains and sadness these people are going through brings back those immediate feelings of being constantly torn down and fear we'd never truly get to be at peace and in my step sons life. My husband cried in the car after court one day and said "I'll never get to be a father" I've never really seen him cry like that, all he wanted was to play a significant role in his sons life without the uncertainties. If any of my kids ever become a teen parents,that was the darkest period of my life.