Tag Archives: family demographics

Families in Society

Dirty Dancing

Title: Dirty Dancing

Date: 1987

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Families in Society

Keywords: adolescence, family demographics, family relationship, parent-child relationships, work and family, types of parents

Rating: PG 13 – Parents Strongly Cautioned

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults, Couples

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: In 1963, Frances “Baby” Houseman, a sweet daddy’s girl, goes with her family to a resort in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains. Baby has grown up in privileged surroundings and all expect her to go on to college, join the Peace Corps and save the world before marrying a doctor, just like her father. Unexpectedly, Baby becomes infatuated with the camp’s dance instructor, Johnny Castle, a man whose background is vastly different from her own. Baby lies to her father to get money to pay for an illegal abortion for Johnny’s dance partner. She then fills in as Johnny’s dance partner and it is as he is teaching her the dance routine that they fall in love. It all comes apart when Johnny’s friend falls seriously ill after her abortion and Baby gets her father, who saves the girl’s life. He then learns what Baby has been up to, who with and worse – that he funded the illegal abortion. He bans his daughter from any further association with “those people”. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092890/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Places to view: YouTube, Amazon Video, Google Play, ITunes, Vudu

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Internal Dynamics of Families

Hidden Figures

Title: Hidden Figures

Date: 2016

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: family demographics, family relationship, parenting styles, single parenting, work and family

Rating: PG – Parental Guidance Suggested

Audience(s): High School Age, College Age, Adults, Parents, Couples, Families

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Based on the unbelievably true life stories of three of these women, known as “human computers”, we follow these women as they quickly rose the ranks of NASA alongside many of history’s greatest minds specifically tasked with calculating the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, and guaranteeing his safe return. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes. (Taraji P. Henson – Katherine G. Johnson, Octavia Spencer – Dorothy Vaughan, Janelle Monae – Mary Jackson (engineer)) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/?ref_=nv_sr_1)

Places to view: Google Play, YouTube

Contributor: Krista Hamann

Internal Dynamics of Families

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Title: Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Date: 2013

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families

Keywords: adolescence, adulthood, conflict management, family demographics, parent-child relationships, parenting style, step-parent, types of parents

Rating: PG – Parental Guidance Suggested

Audience(s): Children Under 12, High School Age, College Age, Families

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: The Baker family wants to make one last trip out to their old lake house while the family can still get all together. When they get there, the house is a little more rundown than they remember. Also, across the lake their arch enemies, the Murtaugh family have upgraded to a full blown mansion. The two families have a long standing rivalry between one another and this vacation is no exception.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How do the Baker parents and Murtaugh parents parent differently from one another?

Places to view: Itunes, Youtube, Amazon Video, Vudu, Google Play

Contributor: Krista Hamann