Adoption Documentary: In The Shadows of Giants

This is my Film Degree Thesis movie. It is about how the adoption industry is a dynamic and quickly changing field with countless ways in which one can adopt a child. In this modern age in which information from around the world is accessible at the click of the button, the process of adoption has grown both more accessible but also more complex and rigorous regardless of the path one takes. These are the struggles of the adoption industry and three families wishing to adopt.

Teresa and Alberto have been married for 16 years. While Teresa already has children from another marriage, Alberto wishes to have a baby of their own. Unable to have one, the Figueroas consider adopting domestically.

Christine and Michael Bates already have a child of their own but wish for another. Having tried pregnancy and other options without any success, they look internationally to adopt.

Teri Hopper and Alyssa Baloo have been a couple for nine years. They were certain they wanted to raise child together, however they needed to find a viable route that would hide their sexuality.

For various reasons, each of these families wants to adopt a child. These are the stories of their experiences and struggles in order to finish their goal, to complete their family.

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News & Politics

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• children
• adoption
• adopts
• adopted
• adoptee
• struggles
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• analysis
• news
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• documentary

[1whatever69]

This is a wonderful film for me to see.After I have completed the medical tests to see if I am able to have a baby we are thinking about adoption from Russia.That is if I am unable.We have been trying for 3 years.

[bigmysterio]

@1whatever69 I wish you all the best with your tests. But it's also great to know that there is something you can fall back on. There are options for people. They are not easy and that is the main message of the film. But if you want it it can be achieved.

[ashatbulaparanormal]

I would love to hear more about your experience.It's nice to hear adoptees true feelings and not something that was programed.

[ashatbulaparanormal]

@givebirthathome Thanks I hate to upset anyone or step on anyone's toes.The website that you found on my channel is not mine,but belongs to a wonderful activist Laurie Frisch and others activist.We're a small group,but getting bigger by the years. We hope to open more eyes on this subject and get adoption reformed that better suits everyone.

[givebirthathome]

@ashatbulaparanormal Take it the wrong way?!! No, I totally agree with you!! I am an activist along these lines, but in a natural way..I simply speak up from my experience as an adoptee, during all the times people are blithely going on about adoption without ever mentioning the difficulties for mothers and adoptees.

Your site, exiled mothers, was excellent. I knew about the issue of fraudulent open adoptions, but I am nevertheless appalled.

[ashatbulaparanormal]

@givebirthathome Hope you don't take this the wrong way,but this video to me is nothing more then promoting solicitation of children.After all we don't solicit living people for their organs or if a woman solicit for sex,she is arrested.I'm working on tons of videos to stop this madness and help those get their adoption records open.Every adoptees deserves the right to know where they come from and all their questions answered.

[givebirthathome]

@ashatbulaparanormal I'm with you on that..at least they didn't censor my comments.

[ashatbulaparanormal]

@givebirthathome No,this film maker wants only to show and make a point on how great Adoption Agencies are.They don't want Adoptees to know the truth about their past and where they come from.They think Adoptees should be grateful they got adopted and leave it at that.I don't like adoption agencies,nor do I like how they conduct their industry.

[givebirthathome]

btw, google Lisa Steinberg, adoptee. Read Lost Bird, there have been many other indigenous children stolen, too. So many in some cases its been considered genocide.

Take a look at the brilliant book, "the Girls who went away" representing the abuse suffered by birthmothers, routinely lied to. Then there's the children stolen from moms who are political prisoners, the lack of legal rights of the surrendering half of "open adoptions", and the sexual abuse suffered by some adoptees.

[givebirthathome]

You seem to be a good filmmaker, but as an adoptee, and sister of two adoptees, and friend of others, this kind of strikes me as if we're Holocaust survivors, and you're making a film about a bunch of folks happily anticipating building better concentration camps, without giving a f*ck about not only what happened to us in the past, but what is STILL happening--with the sealed records and legal discrimination.