'Glee' Causes Controversy with Quinn's Adoption Storyline

"Glee" has been the target of a number of complaints in its two-season-plus run, some of them pretty fair and caused by Ryan Murphy's big mouth, and others completely unwarranted. The newest complaint against the show falls somewhere in the middle.

If you have been watching season three, you already know that Quinn (Dianna Agron) is actively trying to get her daughter back from Shelby (Idina Menzel), who adopted the child earlier in the show. Shelby is also Rachel's (Lea Michele) birth mother, and not only showed up in Rachel's life unannounced, but has now returned as an employee of her school.

A petition started on Change.org by Amber Austin notes that neither of these storylines are true to fact. "In real, legitimate adoptions," writes Austin, "a birth mother cannot simply take a child away from their family or pop back into a child's life, however this is one of most pervasive and harmful myths about adoption."

A valid point. And while "Glee" is a fictional TV show and nobody should be getting their adoption information from a musical comedy, the "Glee" audience does skew younger and these storylines could be misleading.

Thus, Austin requests that Fox and Ryan Murphy create a PSA about adoption myths to help point viewers in the right direction for further information. Basically, Austin wants to turn a future "Glee" installment into a "very special episode."

What do you think? Is this petition taking a fictional show too seriously, or should Ryan Murphy own up to the inaccuracies on the show?