reports Family/Children

The Lost Children of Rockdale County
(90 minutes) Conyers, Georgia is a prosperous bedroom community just outside Atlanta. FRONTLINE examines the link between an outbreak of syphilis among a group of its teenagers ... (more)

Secrets of the SAT
(60 minutes) How fair are standardized tests? What do they measure? And what's their impact on racial diversity on America's college campuses? FRONTLINE examines the debate ... (more)

Pop
(60 minutes) In his first film, acclaimed photographer Joel Meyerowitz creates a poignant and indelible portrait of his father, an unpredictable, courageous, and remarkably funny man who ... (more)

The Farmer's Wife
(390 minutes) Filmmaker David Sutherland takes us deep inside the passionate, yet troubled, marriage of Juanita and Darrel Buschkoetter, a young farm couple in rural Nebraska facing ... (more)

My Retirement Dreams
(60 minutes) 'I began my journey as a voyeur in the landscape of old age, but when it was over I was an insider,' says FRONTLINE producer ... (more)

Innocence Lost: The Plea
(120 minutes) FRONTLINE producer Ofra Bikel revisits the defendants in the Little Rascals Day Care sexual abuse case and reports on how each of them, while accused ... (more)

Little Criminals
(60 minutes) It was an unthinkable crime. In California, a six-year-old boy entered the home of a neighbor to steal a tricycle and savagely beat Ignacio Bermudez, ... (more)

Secret Daughter
(150 minutes) FRONTLINE producer June Cross tells the intricate story of her own family through the prism of the changing face of race relations in America. Cross, ... (more)

The Confessions of RosaLee
(60 minutes) The Washington Post ran a week-long series of front-page articles about one Washington, D.C., resident and her family. Reporting on the interrelationships of poverty, ... (more)

The Vanishing Father
(60 minutes) In less than two generations, a seismic shift has occurred in the makeup of the American family. Today,fatherlessness has become the norm for about ... (more)

When the Bough Breaks
(60 minutes) FRONTLINE explores the bond between parents and children and the profound implications for children's behavior later in life if that attachment is hampered. These ... (more)

Divided Memories Part 2
(120 minutes) Part 2 looks at the effects that remembered abuse has had on the families involved and explores how we distinguish real memories from those which ... (more)

Divided Memories Part 1
(120 minutes) Today, a raging debate over the validity of repressed memory about sexual abuse divides the therapeutic community, the women's movement, and thousands of accusers and ... (more)

Does TV Kill?
(90 minutes) Before the average American child leaves elementary school, researchers estimate that he or she will have witnessed more than eight thousand murders on television. ... (more)

The Trouble with Evan
(90 minutes) What makes 11 year-old Evan lie, fight and steal? And what leads his parents to heap verbal abuse on their son, to tell him, 'I ... (more)

Prisoners of Silence
(60 minutes) Facilitated communication (FC) has been heralded as a breakthrough technique for nonverbal people with autism. The method uses a helper to control the involuntary ... (more)

In Search of Our Fathers
(60 minutes) Marco Williams was 24 years old when he learned his father's name. It was the first of many things he would discover about himself and ... (more)

A Kid Kills
(60 minutes) When 15 year old Damien Bynoe and two friends took a gun and went to settle a dispute, 15 year old Korey Grant and 11 ... (more)

Who Cares About Children?
(60 minutes) With 410,000 children in foster-care and over half a million expected by 1995, child advocates across the country say nearly every state is in, or ... (more)

Who Killed Adam Mann?
(60 minutes) On March 5, 1990, in New York City, five year-old Adam Mann was beaten to death for eating a piece of cake. The autopsy indicated ... (more)