Kids-R

Kids-R is documentary film about a journey of a couple who wants to adopt and how they learn what it takes to become parents. They start with investigation of how adoption and foster care system works, and it leads them to question where all the kids come from and how these kids end up being locked up in the system. After discovering ominous statistical data on child abuse and learning about countless bureaucratic policies, they raise number of fundamental yet very much ignored questions about basic human rights of children and whether there is a right time for having kids.
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Logline: To adopt a child you have to match an entire set of criteria, but to have a biological child - you just have to have sex.
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Having personally witnessed Sir Elton John's failed attempt to adopt a 14-month-old boy, Lev, from an AIDS orphanage in Ukraine, a young couple questions if they are ready for kids and whether they should be required to match a certain criteria in order to become either biological or adoptive parents.
The search for the answer propels them into a journey through the Himalayas of Nepal, urban slums of Ukraine, China, the United Kingdom and across the United States. They meet people who managed to adopt and those who failed because of their skin color, weight or personal habits… Due to endless regulations, bureaucracy and prejudices children 'age out' being locked up in the institutions. International adoption is further compromised and complicated by numerous policies, and it has become almost impossible to adopt in a world of 132 millions orphans. As Michael and Olga face the realities of the adoption system and racial inequality it gets even more heartbreaking when they start to dig into how the children end up in the adoption system.
The film stresses the importance of both nature and nurture and looks at the problems of child abuse and neglect. It studies the consequences of premature parenting for both parents and the children.
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