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  • Commemorate National Adoption Month
    Explore POV's films and resources on adoption with your community.
    POV Staff 3 min read November 9, 2015 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Next on POV: Tough Love
    What makes a good parent? How do you prove you are responsible after you've been deemed unfit? Watch "Tough Love" - Monday on PBS.
    POV Staff 2 min read July 2, 2015 POV Films Blog Comments
  • Host a Free Screening for National Adoption Month
    During the month of November, people across the country are hosting events in celebration of adoptive families. Learn more about National Adoption Day at NationalAdoptionDay.org. POV is encouraging community groups, educators and librarians to host a local screening of our Adoption Stories films First Person Plural by Deann Borshay Liem, In the Matter of Cha […]
    POV Staff 1 min read November 1, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • This is My Family – Defining Family
    We were excited this week to see the launch of This is My Family pull in our first video submissions. The range of style was as eclectic as the perspectives and individuals posting the videos. Already we have children of LGBTQ parents, extended-family-families, foster families, adoptive parents, adoptees — singing songs, recording from their computer’s […]
    POV Staff 1 min read October 7, 2010 Documentary News Comments
  • Doc Soup: Adopting Parenthood
    Normally with this blog, I like to approach the form, aesthetics, politics and/or cultural context of the documentaries I write about, but for this week’s POV airing of Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy, I find myself thinking about just the content. It’s no doubt because I recently experienced the birth of my second […]
    Tom Roston 3 min read August 30, 2010 Doc Soup Comments