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| The Fierce Goodbye: Living in the Shadow of Suicide |
[DVD] 248.8 F4653 |
| Over four million people a year in the U.S. mourn the tragic suicide deaths of family members. Suicide devastates family members for many years; family survivors are at greater risk of suicide themselves and the pain ripples out to the entire community. In this video, family survivors reveal their intimate stories and aching pain to assist other survivors and to help the broader community understand the unique and terrible grief of suicide. This documentary explores Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and Greek Orthodox responses to suicide. |
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| Capturing the Friedmans |
[DVD] 364.1 C2545 |
| The Friedmans seem to be a typical family from affluent Great Neck, Long Island. One Thanksgiving, as the family gathers for a quiet holiday dinner, a police battering ram splinters the front door and officers rush inside. The police charge Arnold Friedman and his son Jesse with hundreds of shocking crimes. As police investigate, and the community reacts, the fabric of the family begins to disintegrate, revealing questions about justice, family and finally the truth. |
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| Be Good, Smile Pretty |
[DVD] 305.9 B3653 |
| Chronicles the heart-wrenching journey to understand and cope with the loss shared by the estimated 20,000 American children whose fathers were killed in Vietnam, weaving emotionally compelling interviews with home movies, stock footage, and family photos. Along her journey, the filmmaker uncovers a 30-year-old mystery, as she comes to know her father as a man. Untangled from the memory of a war that wounded a nation. Some discoveries are almost too difficult to bear, it is ultimately the truth that allows her, and her entire family, to understand and move forward. |
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| The Seasons of a Navajo |
[VHS] 979.01 |
| The film shows one year in the life of an extended Navajo family on a southwestern reservation. It contrasts the traditional life with modern changes. |
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| A Young Family |
[VHS] 952.11 |
| Depicts life in Japan from the perspective of the Japanese, yet in a way that makes Japanese society and culture readily understandable to U.S. students. |
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| Healing Adult Children: Children of Violence |
Healing Adult Children: Children of Violence |
| Children raised in violent homes react and become either adult perpetrators of violence or adult victims of violence. They forever seek safety through real or imagined power over others, or give up and stay victims. Explore how childhood abuse has impacted the lives of brothers Gordon and John. This video profiles how they've dealt with issues of family intimacy and how they are finding their way together to recovery. |
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| The Oldest Victims: Elder Abuse |
[DVD] 362.6 O445 |
| This program addresses a number of elder abuse-related topics, including the embezzlement of elders' funds by family members; the criminal neglect and endangerment of housebound and bedridden elders by their children and friends; and alleged mercy killings of terminally ill elders by their spouses. The case of a senior-stalker who murdered over a dozen elderly women and the story of a parent-abuser turned elder-advocate are also presented. |
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| Teen Parents; The Bonds of Family |
[DVD] 649.1 T2585 |
| Over 1400 teenage girls become pregnant every day in America. This video identified sources of support - family, school and community that are essential in helping teen parents raise children successfully. |
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| Who are the DeBolts? and where did they get 19 kids? |
[DVD] 362.4 W6285 |
| Not only do parents Bob and Dorothy have six kids of their own, they have also opened up their hearts and their home to thirteen disadvantaged and handicapped children. What results is an amazing mix of diversity. The multiethnic kids are heroes who belie the typical stereotype of being handicapped. They go to school, do chores, and "hang out" while simultaneously navigating the difficulties of their disabilities. |
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Other possibly appropriate titles may be found by searching the catalog under the call number
362 and the call number
649. |
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