We Are Dad
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We Are Dad is a 2005 documentary film
chronicling the story of two male pediatric AIDS
nurses who have taken in a number of HIV positive infants as their foster parents. The film outlines the couple's struggle to provide a stable and loving home to their children. When one child, who tested HIV-positive at birth, is discovered to be HIV negative, the state of Florida
determined that the child should be adopted, but refused to allow his foster parents, a gay couple, to adopt him. The fight over this decision thrust this family into the center of the debate over gay adoption.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
chronicling the story of two male pediatric AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
nurses who have taken in a number of HIV positive infants as their foster parents. The film outlines the couple's struggle to provide a stable and loving home to their children. When one child, who tested HIV-positive at birth, is discovered to be HIV negative, the state of Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
determined that the child should be adopted, but refused to allow his foster parents, a gay couple, to adopt him. The fight over this decision thrust this family into the center of the debate over gay adoption.