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Foster Care and Adoption
• Adoption
• Foster Care
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Navigating the transition from adolescence to adulthood is challenging for even the most mature and privileged youth. For three young people in New York and Los Angeles, making the transition to independent living is considerably more difficult as they "age out" of the foster care system. They suddenly discover that they¹re on their own for the first time. Aging Out chronicles the daunting obstacles that these veterans of foster care encounter as they are forced to fend for themselves. more »
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Some people have very big hearts! We meet an Australian couple who have adopted several Ethiopian orphaned children. We see how they help the children overcome the pain of their past as they adjust to a new country. more »
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Victoria, a young Argentine woman, set out to find the truth about her parents who disappeared in 1978 during the military dictatorship. Painful questions emerge: were her parents terrorists? Did they suffer more because they were Jewish? more »
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This unique film takes viewers inside a suspenseful death penalty trial and challenges beliefs about capital punishment. As evidence in the trial is an earlier film, Aging Out, which documented the the victim's life as she aged out of foster care. more »
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The poignant, depression-age story of abandoned children from big cities who were sent West to live and work with farm families. It was the idea of Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, as an alternative to institionalization. more »
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Operation Babylift in 1975 helped thousands of South Vietnamese children to escape to America where they were adopted . Now in their mid -20's, the adoptees return to their birthplace in search of their roots. more »
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During the Cultural Revolution a daughter was given up for adoption to a farm family. Now, a parent herself, she journeys to meet the father she never knew. more »
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This powerful film focuses on issues of race, culture and identity in families in which there have been transracial adoptions. more »
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Almost half a million children in the United States are in foster care. They were taken from their parents who were deemed unfit to care for them. This is a sensitive exploration of the long term emotional and psychological costs of this policy. more »
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After the Indian tribes were vanquished, the governments of the U.S. and Canada destroyed their cultures as well. For generations, youngsters were separated from their Indian parents and adopted by both well-meaning and exploitive adoptive families. This film reveals some of these complicated stories more »
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