I Have Roots & Branches... Personal Reflections on Adoption  

While the process of adoption has been receiving increasingly greater attention, the feelings of those touched by adoption are often overlooked. Director and executive producer Flory G. Herman, a member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys since 1994, takes an intimate look at adoption in this new must-see 47 minute documentary-style film "I Have Roots and Branches"...Personal Reflections on Adoption, a 2004 winner of a prestigious Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence, recognized world-wide for quality family/children's entertainment. The film conveys a positive, encouraging and honest message about adoption, and is most appropriate for children viewers. Viewers will find out firsthand how it feels to have been adopted and discover that all kids have common experiences growing up in their homes, surrounded by the families they know and love. Families formed through adoption, prospective adoptive and birth parents and professionals in the adoption community should not miss this wonderful film. The video is appropriate for schools and libraries as a resource for adoption education. 

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Die blaue Spur und Suchlauf (Teil 1 und 2 einer Ado-Geschichte) 
Die Geschichte um Sophie beschreibt das Schicksal und die Tragödie vieler Personen einer Familie über mehrere Generationen hinweg,

in deren Mittelpunkt die drei Schwestern Margret, Maria und Sophia-Gertrud stehen. Nicht nur Sophies Mutter Margret war nicht in der Lage, ihre Kinder

selbst großzuziehen, auch Margrets, um ein Jahr jüngere Schwester Maria, musste ihr erst geborenes Kind in ein Heim geben. Die jüngste der drei Schwestern, Sophia- Gertrud kehrt 1972 Deutschland den Rücken, folgt einem amerikanischen Offizier in die USA, und lässt zwei Söhne in Deutschland zurück.