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  title info:
    title: Taken in
    sub title: the lives of America's foster children
  name:
    name part: Roth, Vanessa.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Big Year Productions
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentary.
  genre: Streaming videos.
  genre: documentary film.
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Documentaires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York, NY
    publisher: Filmakers Library
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (57 min.)
  abstract: Almost half a million children in the United States are in foster care. These are young people abused or neglected in their homes, or abandoned by their parents. For the last 150 years, social welfare agencies have placed children in temporary foster care. What are the real long term emotional and psychological costs of this policy? This powerful film delves in to the lives of generations of children who have grown up in foster care. The centerpiece of the program documents a year in the life of fifteen-year-old Jeffrey Smith and his five-year-old sister Joanna after they are separated from their crack addicted parents and three brothers. They now live in a two bedroom apartment with a Spanish speaking foster mother who has three children of her own. With the help of a guidance counselor, they confront the pain of separation and the difficult adjustment to a new home, neighborhood and culture. To the disappointment of the children, their parents fail to visit for several months. When they finally do, it becomes evident that their mother is still using drugs and fighting with their father. The hopes they had for being reunited are further diminished when their father is diagnosed with leukemia and their mother becomes pregnant with her sixth child. Interwoven with the Smith s story are the stories of four generations of adults who were once in foster care. From eighty-year-old Bill and his seventy-five year old brother Paul who lived in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in 1932 to twenty-year-old Tieysha who aged out of foster care two years ago, they all feel they were deprived of a normal childhood. This is an important film for social workers, counselors, policy makers, and classes in sociology and social policy.
  target audience: For High School; College; Adult audiences.
  target audience: general
  note: written, Produced and Directed by Vanessa Roth.
  note: English.
  note: Alfred I. Dupont Award, Silver Baton, 1999
  note: First Place, Social Issues, National Council of Family Relations, 1998
  note: American Psych. Assoc. 1999
  note: Bronze Apple, National Ed. Media Network, 1998
  note: Gold Plaque, Chicago International Television Festival, 1998
  note: International Documentary Festival , Amsterdam, 1997
  note: Silver Apple, National Educational Media Network, 1998
  note: Silver Apple, National Educational Media Festival, 1998
  subject:
    topic: Foster children
  subject:
    topic: Foster home care
  subject:
    topic: Foster children
  subject:
    topic: Foster home care
  classification: PN1200eb
  classification: 362.73
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Taken in
    name:
      name part: Roth, Vanessa.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1999 publishers catalog number
    identifier: 810
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Filmakers Library online
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 080405
    record change date: 20241201225236.4
    record identifier: in00005532108
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng