The following information is from adoptionfilm.org :

Today, a revolution is unfolding in America and its effects are rippling through our society. According to one study, nearly six out of every ten people in the US are personally connected to adoption -- whether they are, or are close to, an adoptee, an adoptive parent, or a birthparent whose child has been adopted. The very face of adoption has changed dramatically. Just a couple of decades ago, adoption was regarded with shame and secrecy, but today it couldn't be more different. Adoption is now widely seen as a positive, life-affirming way to create a family.

Yet, our societal structure and laws haven't kept pace with this fundamental revolution. Technology, and in particular the internet, has transformed many of the rules and the realities. The increase in open adoptions, international adoptions and adoptions by single parents have readjusted what we think of the structure of the American family, and have made schoolrooms and communities more diverse.

Adoption: An American Revolution is a major multimedia project that will explore how transformations taking place in adoption today are having far-reaching effects on all our public and private lives. Adoption is filled with powerful emotional truths: love and grief, personal bonds relinquished and others created. We will explore these experiences in interviews with adoptive and birth parents and extended families, with adopted children and adults, and adoption professionals and experts.

The two-hour special, inspired by a compelling book by Adam Pertman,
Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America
www.adoptionnation.com , will be linked to an ambitious adoption
education effort, with innovative adoption-related materials for public libraries and schools, a new web site with adoption resources, and more.

Learn more about this exciting new step for public television at
www.adoptionfilm.org

A co-production of Spy Pond Productions and WGBH-Boston.
Recipient of a CPB/PBS Challenge Grant.

Reprinted by permission