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When Pete and Ellie choose to start a family, they stumble headfirst into the world of foster care adoption. After they learn their perfect foster child comes with two other siblings, Pete and Ellie find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight and must hilariously learn the ropes of instant parenthood if they hope to become a real family.
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Single parents face unique challenges. This 2-volume set offers proven strategies that help single parents respond to difficult situations they encounter daily, including balancing their needs with the needs of their children, financial issues, co-parenting, and more. Volume 1: Creating a Healthy Life for Yourselfshows single parents how to prioritize the needs of their children while still maintaining their own health, interests, and activities.
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Single parents face unique challenges. This 2-volume set offers proven strategies that help single parents respond to difficult situations they encounter daily, including balancing their needs with the needs of their children, financial issues, co-parenting, and more. Volume 1: Creating a Healthy Life for Yourself shows single parents how to prioritize the needs of their children while still maintaining their own health, interests, and activities....
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Single parents face unique challenges. This 2-volume set offers proven strategies that help single parents respond to the difficult situations they encounter daily, including balancing their needs with the needs of their children, financial issues, co-parenting, and more. Volume 2: Creating a Healthy Life for Your Child provides strategies for single parents to meet the varying needs and unique challenges of their children from birth to adolescence....
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Single parents face unique challenges. This 2-volume set offers proven strategies that help single parents respond to the difficult situations they encounter daily, including balancing their needs with the needs of their children, financial issues, co-parenting, and more. Volume 2: Creating a Healthy Life for Your Child provides strategies for single parents to meet the varying needs and unique challenges of their children from birth to adolescence....
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When grief is compounded by guilt, all of the problems of bereavement are multiplied. This program from The Doctor Is In seeks to help parents listen to their teenagers with greater awareness-not to place blame on parents for not hearing, but to help them identify the symptoms of serious trouble...and to recognize that all parents can do is their best, which is sometimes not enough to prevent suicide.
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Gilly Hopkins has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Maime Trotter's endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue. But when the ploy blows up in Gilly's face it threatens to ruin the only chance she's ever had to be part of a real family.
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Zoey, a thirteen year old foster child, watches her foster family's dog get stolen while she's in charge! The criminals, a pair of Home-Alone-like thugs, are after the mutt because he is a famous show dog. Zoey runs away from the desert on a cross-country adventure with her techy new friend in order to track down the dog and save the relationship with her foster family.
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This Life Skills two part program gives young adults foundational building blocks in crucial life areas like relationships, time and money management, career building, and more. The videos teach young parents the keys to success and will leave viewers feeling more confident and excited about their futures. Volume 1: Healthy Relationships includes: relationship basics, conflict and commitment, and your support network and parenting.
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This Life Skills two part program gives young adults foundational building blocks in crucial life areas like relationships, time and money management, career building, and more. The videos teach young parents the keys to success and will leave viewers feeling more confident and excited about their futures. Volume2: Building Your Future includes: staying in school, setting goals, jobs, money management, and living on your own.
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Three guests know almost nothing about their fathers' past. Stephen King's father walked out on the family when Stephen was two years old and never returned; Courtney Vance's father was a foster child and never knew who his biological parents were - after his suicide, Courtney wants to learn more about his roots; and Gloria Reuben's father was 78 years old when she was born - he died when she was young, taking the secret of his ancestry with him....
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Little Molly Hale has always led a lonely life, but things only get worse for her when the long-lost Uknown cause her father to mysteriously vanish one day. But things start to seem brighter when the power of the Uknown starts to change the world around her into a fantasy land. She soon lives in a crystal palace, and has the Legendary Entei as a dad. There's only one thing missing rom the equation, a mother.
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A boy makes a list of places to visit and things to see after learning that he could lose his eyesight. To fulfill his dreams, his estranged parents agree to come together and take their son on an adventurous and wacky journey of discovery.
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Over 1,400 teenage girls become pregnant every day in America. This video identifies three sources of support-family, school, and community-that are essential in helping teen parents raise children successfully.
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This sensitive and informative program uses dramatizations of real-life situations to explore the choices available to young people faced with an unplanned pregnancy. While some references pertain to U.K. citizens only, the video provides a useful overview as a teen couple evaluates the options and implications of keeping the baby, adoption, and voluntary termination. Interviews with health care and education professionals, parents, and young people...
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This program examines teenage pregnancy from the teenage father's point of view. It is an in-depth look at the attitudes of young men toward sex, birth control, and teenage fatherhood. Teen pregnancy, its cost to society, and the plight of young mothers and their newborns are discussed, along with how most young fathers deal with the reality of a pregnant girlfriend. A final section examines the role of teenage fathers in child-rearing, and discusses...
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Young mothers need to be aware of the benefits and problems associated with the options of marriage or single parenting. This program stresses the importance of developing a positive and responsible attitude in order to make the best of the situation. The video provides information on finding a doctor, prenatal care, and the benefits of a practical diet, exercise, and childbirth classes, as well as advice on adjusting to the baby, assuming responsibility,...
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This hard-hitting documentary uses interviews with several girls, their boyfriends, parents, counselors, teachers, and other professionals to examine one of the most critical issues facing young Americans today. Exploring the reasons why so many teenagers get pregnant, the video looks at the facts on adolescent sexual behavior and attitudes toward birth control. Although the emphasis is focused on the mother-to-be, the program also studies the parental...
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Being a teenager is difficult enough. Try being a parent at the same time! This program follows the stories of three young women with unplanned pregnancies-15-year-old Valerie, 17-year-old Karina, and 18-year-old Sara. The program also presents another couple, Amanda and Tomas, who have chosen abstinence. In three segments, the teens are interviewed over the course of their pregnancies and after they have become mothers. In this emotional roller-coaster,...