Title: The Kids are Alright

Date: 2010

Media type: Movie

Format: Complete

Category: Families in Soceity, Internal Dynamics of Families, Interpersonal Relationships, Parenting

Keywords: family types (LGBT), family relationship, conflict management, parenting styles

Rating: R

Audience(s): Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The teenage children of a maried lesbian couple decide they want to meet their biological father. The children’s mothers each gave birth to one of the siblings using the same sperm donor. The children get the mans information from the sperm bank and reach out to him. The three spend more and more time together which one of their mothers does not like. As the children’s father spends more time with their family a trist developes between one of the children’s mothers. Eventually the family comes back together and mend the damage that was done. The father is then blocked out by all of the family members. The movie ends with the family taking the elder daughter to college.

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Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: What rights does the sperm donor have in regards to the children (i.e. when he takes the daughter out on the motorcycle though their mom forbid it)? How should the family deal with the revelation of the mother’s infadelity? Is the father to blame for the harm that befalls the family? Why?

Contributor: Ian Brunzell-Looney