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Adoption: a closer look Our September feature story and a PBS series take a deeper look at all it entails. By Susan BelknappPublished: September, 2010

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In the September issue of OC Family, we debuted our new feature story and in the coming months we look forward to bringing you an in-depth, personal view about sometimes challenging, uplifting and poignant subject matter. This month, our focus was on the obstacles faced in the often difficult road to adoption in Bound By Love. If you’d like more insight into the topic, PBS is running its award-winning documentary series, “POV” (Point of View), with "POV – Adoption Stories" that runs Tuesday nights through Sept. 14 at 10 p.m. The first one aired August 31 and all will be streamed in their entirety online to commemorate National Adoption Month in November. All streams can be found here.   The films explore the challenges of adoptees as they forge their new lives while holding on to national and racial identities and how their parents help them strike the delicate balances. ‘Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy,’ by Stephanie Wang-Breal aired Tuesday, Aug. 31 at 10 p.m. on PBS and will stream online from Sept. 1 – Nov. 30.   What is it like to be torn from your Chinese foster family, put on a plane with strangers and wake up in a new country, family and culture? Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy is the story of Fang Sui Yong, an 8-year-old orphan, and the Sadowskys, the Long Island Jewish family that travels to China to adopt her. Sui Yong (now Faith) is one of 70,000 Chinese children now being raised in the United States. Through her eyes, we witness her struggle with a new identity as she transforms from a timid child into someone that no one – neither her new family nor she – could have imagined.   ‘Off and Running,’ by Nicole Opper. It airs Tuesday, Sept. 7 at 10 p.m. on PBS and streams online from Sept. 8 – Dec. 7 “Off and Running” is the story of Brooklyn teenager Avery, a track star with a bright future. She is the adopted African-American child of white, Jewish lesbians. Her two brothers are black and Puerto Rican and Korean-American. Though it may not look typical, Avery’s household is like most American homes – until Avery writes to her birth mother and the response throws her into crisis. She struggles over her “true” identity and estrangement from black culture. Just when it seems her life will unravel, Avery begins to make sense of her identity, with inspiring results.   ‘In the Matter of Cha Jung’ Hee by Deann Borshay Liem; airs Tuesday, Sept. 14 on PBS and streams online from Sept. 15 – Oct. 15   Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the U.S. in 1966. Told to keep her true identity secret from her new American family, the 8-year-old girl quickly forgot she had ever been anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee? “In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee” is the search to find the answers, as acclaimed filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem returns to her native Korea to find her “double,” the mysterious girl whose place she took in America.

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