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Adoption documentaries to air on PBS
From The Examiner:
Three documentaries about adoption will be aired on the PBS Point of View Series in the near future.
Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy, follows the story of Fang Sui Yong, an 8 year-old girl adopted from China by an American family from Long Island. After leaving her foster family, language and culture behind her, shy Sui Yong transforms into someone she never expected she could be. There are over 70,000 Chinese adoptees growing up in the United States today. Scheduled to air on Tuesday, August 31.Off and Running, scheduled to air on September 7, is the story of Avery, an up and coming track star who was transracially adopted by a Jewish lesbian couple. Growing up with two transracially adopted brothers, Avery’s home is a typical American household, until she writes to her birthmother whose response sends her into an identity crisis. The results of Avery’s effort to understand herself are inspiring.
The Matter of Cha Jung Hee is the follow-up to Deann Borshay Liem’s First Person Plural (POV 2000). Even though her Korean passport said she was Cha Jung Hee, Borshay knew that’s not who she was. Adopted at the age of eight, she was told never to tell her American family her real identity. This is the story of Borshay’s return to Korea forty years later to search for the real Cha Jung Hee. It is scheduled to air on September 14.
Learn more at www.pbs.org/pov/adoption
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