Preacher's Sons is a 2008 American

United States

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 documentary film

Documentary film

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, by C. Roebuck Reed and Mark Nealey. It follows the lives of a Unitarian Universalist

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 minister, his husband, and the five sons they adopted

Adoption

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 from the California

California

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 foster care

Foster care

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 system. The family is seen dealing with issues related to the fathers' homosexuality

Homosexuality

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 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. The introductory segment has been aired on the public television program, In the Life

In The Life

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. The California Council for the Humanities supported the film.

See also

• Interracial adoption
  Interracial adoption
  Interracial adoption refers to the act of placing a child of one racial or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another racial or ethnic group....
  
  
• LGBT adoption
• Mommy Mommy
  Mommy Mommy
  Mommy Mommy is a 2007 documentary film directed by Sylvie Rosenthal about a Montreal lesbian couple's five-year long struggle to have a child.-Background:...
  
  - a documentary about a lesbian adoptive couple
• The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
  The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
  The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant is a non-fiction book by Dan Savage. It was first published by Dutton in 1999. The book recounts the author's experiences during the process of adopting a child with his partner, Terry...
  
  

External links

• Preacher's Sons at Internet Movie DataBase
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