When Pete and Ellie choose to start a family, they stumble headfirst into the world of foster care adoption. After they learn their perfect foster child comes with two other siblings, Pete and Ellie find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight and must hilariously learn the ropes of instant parenthood if they hope to become a real family.

Being a father is a lifetime commitment that requires a lot of love, time, and energy. An interview with fathering expert Steve Onell is paired with interviews of young fathers to explain the impact and importance of a father in a child's life. Divided into four chapters, Fathering: What It Means To Be a Dad offers sound advice to new dads.--Kanopy.

What happens when love runs out of time? For 92-year-old Mimi, who has spent much of her life caring for 64-year-old Dona, her daughter with an intellectual disability, it means facing the inevitable -- the likelihood that she will not outlive her daughter and the need to find her a new home. Filmmaker Sophie Sartain, Mimi and Dona's granddaughter and niece, respectively, captures the quirky and deeply connected mother-daughter duo at their most poignant...

Gilly Hopkins has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Maime Trotter's endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue. But when the ploy blows up in Gilly's face it threatens to ruin the only chance she's ever had to be part of a real family.

David Basner's life is great. Until his father tells him that he and David's mother are calling it quits after 35 years. Now David has the responsibility of taking care of his crotchety dad and has to emotionally support his mother. He gains a new appreciation of his parents, with whom he thought he had nothing in common.

An intimate, humorous and heartfelt journey into the stories of adult children navigating the challenges and joys of caring for their aging parents.

Emerging from a detox clinic, a young addict must stay clean while living with her long-estranged mother for the next four days.

A man's estranged father unexpectedly dies, so he goes home to Cape Cod and prepares the house for sale while sharing it with his father's temperamental live-in boyfriend. Grieving, they circle each other, butt heads, and negotiate how to remember the different man they both loved, and the significance of what he left behind.

A unique compilation of candid interviews with children ages 4-18 talking about their experiences of their parents' divorce, about coping with illness in the family, dealing with the loss of a loved one, and learning to cope and thrive with autistic siblings. The kids talk about their pain. They talk about their adjustment. They talk about their love and understanding. The children have phenomenal wisdom and compelling practical advice to share.

16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once a week, every week (only on Tuesdays) these unique filmmaking rules bring a rare authenticity to this emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility and transformation.