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Preacher's Sons
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Wikipedia article
'Preacher's Sons' is a 2008 American documentary film, by C. Roebuck Reed and Mark Nealey. It follows the lives of a Unitarian Universalist minister, his husband, and the five sons they adopted from the California foster care system.* The family is seen dealing with issues related to the fathers' homosexuality and the mixed-race (African American and Latino children with Caucasian parents) composition of the family, as well as the disturbed backgrounds of the children before their adoptions.[http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/ARTICLE.php?AID=23446 MOMBIAN Preacher's Sons: A 'love bomb' for Middle America] The introductory segment has been aired on the public television program, 'In the Life'.[http://www.inthelifetv.org/html/episodes/79.html 'In the Life' Presents: 'Preacher's Sons'] The California Council for the Humanities supported the film.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070701115123/http://www.calhum.org/press/press_doc_four_films.htm California Council for the Humanities Awards $238,000 to Four Film Projects That Reveal Little-Known Aspects of California Life]
See also
*Interracial adoption
*LGBT adoption
*'Mommy Mommy' - a documentary about a lesbian adoptive couple
*'The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant'
References
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