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Multiple Choices - The Agony and the Ecstasy

1995 13 min
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Raising kids in this society is an often daunting task. Each of us has different reasons about why we choose--or don't choose--to be parents. Participants discuss their parent-child relationships, single parenting by choice, homosexual or lesbian parents, and teenage parenting.

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Multiple Choices - The Agony and the Ecstasy

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Raising kids in this society is an often daunting task. Each of us has different reasons about why we choose--or don't choose--to be parents. Participants discuss their parent-child relationships, single parenting by choice, homosexual or lesbian parents, and teenage parenting.
  • director
    Alison Burns
  • producer
    Sally Bochner
  • executive producer
    Don Haig
  • cinematography
    Paul M. Rickard
    Susan Trow
  • animation camera
    Jacques Avoine
    Raymond Dumas
  • sound
    Marie-France Delagrave
    Esther Auger
  • editing
    Denise Beaudoin
    Rosemarie Shapley
    Alison Burns
  • sound editing
    Danuta Klis
  • re-recording
    Serge Boivin
  • animation
    Torill Kove
  • music
    Kathy Kennedy

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Ages 13 to 18
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A Q&A session recorded in 1995 representing a cross-section of Canadian society. Topics respectfully discussed include parenting, parent-child relationships, single parenting, LGBTQ parents, teenage parenting and the choice to not have children. Ideal for class discussions, debates or essay topics. Is it true that parents are “living for their children”? The Indigenous woman in the group says, “The Native situation makes me really sad… if I brought a child in this world, what are they going to have left? They’re not going to have land… they’re not going to have clean water.” Has there been any change in the situation for an Indigenous family? Are there stigmas today for single parents, teen parents, LGBTQ parents, others? 

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