Love is Not Enough

Synopsis: Follows three adult adoptees as they describe how being transracially adopted has affected their lives. "My adolescence was the most important years for defining my identity and trying to find a happy medium between being brought up by white parents and being black in Britain"; Follows Dele, a young man of Nigerian origin, as he describes his teenage years growing up in Bristol.
"If I’m walking in the street people see this Chinese person, but it’s more than skin deep and that’s what I have lacking. I don’t know what it is to be Chinese. I can only guess at that.." Follows Sue as her search for identity takes her back to her country of origin, Hong Kong.
"...I needed to be put back in touch with my black relatives to redress the balance, because for 20 odd years it had been white people, white people, white people". Follows Paul, a young mixed-race man, as he traces first his white mother and then his black father.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2004
Year of production: 2000
Subjects: Social Studies
Keywords: adoption and fostering; racial identity; transracial adoption

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