[Calpernia]

Helping kids understand about all kinds of family structures

That's a Family! is an entertaining documentary that breaks new ground in helping children in grades K-8 understand the different shapes families take today.

With courage and humor, the children in That's a Family! take viewers on a tour through their lives as they speak candidly about what it's like to grow up in a family with parents of different races or religions, divorced parents, a single parent, gay or lesbian parents, adoptive parents or grandparents as guardians. This award-winning film will stretch your mind and touch your heart no matter what your age.

That's a Family! comes with an extensive discussion and teaching guide, which includes lesson plans to use with the video, suggestions for facilitating classroom discussion at different grade levels, and additional resources for teachers, families and children.

Schools and community groups may also sign up for training on how to use That's a Family! as a diversity teaching tool with young children.

Recommended for students in grades 1 through 6.

The money....

Family Diversity Projects (FDP) is a non-profit organization 501(c)3, which depends on grants and individual donations to help fund our annual budget. This past funding cycle (2002-2004), FDP received generous grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (a state agency), the Gill Foundation, the Icarus Foundation, and the AEC Family Foundation, as well as gifts from many individual donors.

"That's a Family!" was directed by Chasnoff and produced by Helen S. Cohen. It teaches about diversity in a straightforward way--by letting children talk about their families, which include grandparents raising their grandchildren, divorced parents, multiracial households, single mothers and fathers, adoptive families and gay couples. A child's-eye tour of various family structures, the video aims to give all young people a chance to feel visible--to let them talk about their families as a foundation for understanding differences of all kinds. As Emily Fong, a third grader, explains when describing her mixed race family, "You don't have to be a rat to marry a rat. You can be a rat and marry a mouse." Bit by bit, Cohen and Chasnoff hope to uproot prejudice before it has a chance to grow.

[Calpernia]

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[martin_fierro]

That used to be a family.

[Tax-chick]

the State's core curriculum content standards require "as early as grade 2, that children should be able to identify different kinds of families, and explain that families may differ for many reasons ...

Words fail me.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

How come why I was in school I didn't need these types of lessons to be taught?

[LonePalm]

It's not diversity that makes a nation/state/city/family great.

It is ability and character.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[kittymyrib]

The brain-washing of your young children continues at schools all over the country. The mission is to undermine the moral teachings of the parents and the church. What are you going to do about it?

[BenLurkin]

Sick.

Just plain sick.

[mikeyc]

It's all part of the whole Western push to change society to accept their own perversions as normal.
Not much different from the UK government demanding that the Catholic adoption agencies accept homo couples as parents.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1772783/posts

[dcnd9]

Another example of gay agenda in their "Overhauling Of Straight America" ....it's right on track!

http://www.parentsrightsusa.com/Overhauling%20of%20Straight%20America.htm

[CT-Freeper]

Steven Goldstein, the Chairman of the group Garden State Equality, says he's shocked that anyone would have a problem with this video, because it has won several awards and "it was shown at the White House in 2000- before educators and child advocates from across the country who praised the film."

Gee...what a surprise. And just who was President in 2000?

Oh yeah, that's right...

[metmom]

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[metmom]

He adds if people don't feel comfortable with having their kids see That's a Family, "maybe New Jersey is not the right place for them."

/roll eyes

Just another one of many reasons to avoid living in NJ (even though the northern part of the state is beautiful)

[Antoninus]

Exhibit A as to why people home-school.

Government schools are meant to properly socialize your children--into a deviant lifestyle.

[Coleus]

in 3rd Grade!

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[gidget7]

"Steven Goldstein, the Chairman of the group Garden State Equality, says he's shocked that anyone would have a problem with this video, because it has won several awards and "it was shown at the White House in 2000- before educators and child advocates from across the country who praised the film."



Shocked my butt!! This guy is just spewing the standard response. This is the same response btw, that people in MA heard when they protested the books being read to their kids. MA is not the place for you. In other words, if you don't like it, get out.Figures this has MA origins.

Raising good little socialist/communist children is all the public school system cares about in these liberal enclaves. If anyone doubts it, read the communist manifesto.

I don't know how to achieve it, but this has to stop.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

upset that 3rd graders were shown an award winning diversity video

And I have no doubt that the KKK gave awards for videos of lynchings. Aren't all award winning movies great?!?!

[Neoliberalnot]

More marketing of deviance to younger and younger targets. I suspect the future holds open participation by NAMBLA members instead of shielding the true identity of many participants.