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Adoption: Children Are Waiting
198027 min 53 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Laurie Jennings
Production: Lee Gordon
Script: Laurie Jennings
Produced for the NFB by Westminster Films Limited for the Social Services Programs of Health and Welfare Canada.
This film will inform and encourage prospective adopting parents and be helpful to professionals in the child-welfare field. In interviews, three couples relate their experiences of adopting older children or children with disabilities. A fourth couple explains how they, as foster parents, try to prepare children emotionally for adoption.
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Subject categories
- Children and Youth > Adoption and Foster CareYoung persons with disabilities
- Families > Adoption and Foster Care
- People with disabilities > Children with DisabilitiesFamily Life
Credits
- director
- Laurie Jennings
- script
- Laurie Jennings
- producer
- Lee Gordon
- editing
- Arthur Campus
- Kirk Jones