Meridian Education - What Is Family? Defining the Tie that Binds

What Is Family? Defining the Tie that Binds

Is biological lineage a necessary precondition for being a family? In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and correspondent Robert Krulwich visit the Van Dries, of Grand Rapids. With three biological children plus eleven adoptees from the U.S. and around the world, parents Doug and Jan put that question to the test, adding language barriers and the effects of extreme poverty and abuse to the usual array of daunting parental challenges. The sociological underpinnings of family and the psychology of parenting are both examined in this compelling portrait of sixteen people for whom reciprocal loyalty is the cornerstone of life. (44 minutes)

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Item#: EDP10906
Copyright date: ©1999
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-2184-0

Part of the Series : Brave New World


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