After the Promise
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- Elmer Jackson (mark harmon) is a carpenter in a small Californian town in the 1930s. Struggling to bring up 4 young boys after the death of his wife..great movie tearjerker, this is a favourite movie of mine and by the looks of the comments is a favourite of many, i love reading the comments left by people, they are as touching as the movie, peace to you all.
If this movie came out in 2024, it could have won an oscar
Well the story may have but actors now in the true movies can’t act so I don’t think it would win anything
Dude right .. Mark Harmon is so great plus cast x
ABSOLUTELY 💯
I watched this movie Many years ago
I cried through the movie, would be a little easier if this was a fiction, but this was a true story..... The man had 4 perfectly happy and healthy kids and all he asked was a few dollars loan... An immoral babysitter, an incompetent, heartless social worker and a judge, who didn't care enough to check the facts created so much unnecessary grief and broke the lives of the 4 men, whose only "fault" was they lost their mother. This happened in USA, country where we shout loudly about human rights. I was amazed on the father who did not seek revenge on the wrongdoers and focused to create loving and healing environment for his kids. Thank God for the wife and the doctor in reuniting the family. There is still so much cruelty in the world. Very sad...
this movie should be shown in colleges, psychology/ social work departments, in hope to prevent the child abuse by the very people who think they will/are preventing it; a huge responsibility for lives they may be in fact destroying
Exactly, this is where abuse starts..
Great movie!unbelievable the sytem!
I am 71 years old and still haven't gotten over my childhood. And it wasn't even half that bad. How can people be so sick as to treat any living being that horrendously, let alone children?
Yes, they need to be punished, even the government people that don’t know how to deal with children . Love is more important than bed
God let you forgive them! ✝️🙌
I have forgiven but that doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten. Trauma changes a person at the cellular level and they cannot go back to who they might have been.
@SEASCAT That is so true. I struggle to find the trust and love I once had.
It's called capitalism.
Oh man I finally found this movie after almost 10 years ...It was intensely difficult for me to hold back my tears. I find it so aggravating that child services would easily take children from good parents but will seriously delay the removal of children from violent and neglecting parents
I saw this movie Long, Long time ago maybe 30 years. I was crying too much because the history its to sad, like my story
I cannot stop my tears,it has brought back the memories of that togetherness, love, and happyness with my childern decades past; and now with 77 winters behind, spring may NEVER come again!
A Lonely Soul
@@dhruvtarra let the memories warm you.. let each sunrise in this new time of your life bring thankfulness that you are still here to enjoy it..!
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Oh yes
I agree with you on your comment, it's seems that good parents are the bad ones vs the ones who are
What a wonderful, heart breaking movie. I cried when Richard finally was in his Dads arms.
So did I! 😢
I have watched this movies tens and tens of times, and this last scene always always sends me to tears land, and i cry uncontrollably
I cried too.!
@@margaretrungare906I cried too, I felt like they r my own family 😢😭😭😭😭😭😭
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This is the most disturbing movie I have ever seen! The abuse those children endured in the name of child welfare. Taken from a loving father, and given the worst treatment imaginable. It's heartbreaking. The lady at the welfare office should have been jailed. And Richard being sterilized is beyond comprehension, wow. This movie has left me with such a feeling of anger and resentment. I don't even know what to say, WOW😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
yup! i was angry most of the movie..stoopid welfare people!! so glad they finally went home but my god!! horrific!
That's child welfare alright
@kathywagoner8080, I know, me too. It was absolutely horrific what those poor kids went through ..As for that social worker/woman at the welfare office she was vile saying that the father abandoned them when it was the system that ripped them away from him and caused the very problems in them that they said was why they had to be kept away.Richard being sterilised was absolutely horrific .
Sadly in orphanages in Romania there are children there who went in with nothing wrong with them but ended up damaged in much the same way due to being left alone and being abused. The people involved in all of this from the social workers up to the people in the court should all have to pay heavily for this .
My heart tore into a thousand pieces knowing what these kids went through..
These kids were lucky. My children aren't...CPS took my children and ultimately gave them to my abusive ex, proven abusive by nanny can proof and police reports of his child abuse. Now I with severe and incurable physical medical issues am forced to pay the child abuser half my income, paying literally for on going child abuse of every kind known to man - EVERY kind known to man
Soon I will lose my job that I've had for years because due to being forced to pay for the on going child abuse I cannot afford to fix a vehicle I need to return to work over 200 miles away one way, for the jobs hybrid schedule.... If I could fix my vehicle to do it I would even though once I have to do the hybrid schedule again the child abuser would be getting MORE than half my income, getting paid to severely and likely legally abuse my minor children..... I'd still do it if I could, if so much wasn't getting stolen from me already paying for the heinous. Continuation of child abuse, because I'm just not used to getting fired, not used to getting fired, am not comfortable with crazy erratic senseless life changes, etc. But the money has been stolen from me for you long. There's no way I can pay to fix the van. No way I can buy another vehicle that'll work. Definitely no way to move closer and pay rent. Etc. Just no way. Impossible. My medical issues mean I can't work most jobs. ... After this happened to me I learned my situation is not rare. This is just what CPS does as the norm. Worse now than it's ever been in the past. CPS is so corrupt it cannot be fixed. And no I have no drug history and proved it. I have no criminal history. Etc etc
Yes the abuser lied about me but there's hard evidence proving what and who the abuser is... There's no hats evidence against me if any wrong doing because I never did anything horrific my entire life... I've never failed a work background check, etc.
Same here 😢
Yes, the same with me.
Let’s also give tremendous credit to that gentleman who helped the children reunite with their father. You can surely know he really wanted to help and it came from the purest heart. He was also a guardian Angel.
Very true
dont ruin it
@@rose-mariechauret735889k j9989
So true.
Spoiler 😂😂
This is My great grandfathers story, told by by grandfather who has since passed of covid.
I remember watching when if first aired on tv..
It touched me deeply, as i and my siblings were takin by the state as well.. for a much less time.. but dramatic none the less..
But it made me understand the importance of family 🤎☮️
I'm so sorry for your family's experience. I hope you are healing.
@@jamjar5716I still fear the government.
But ty❤
I do too.. ☮️🕊💕
@privateprivate1865, I am sorry to hear that happened to you and your family .
So sorry for you and your family
May no child go through this missed up system, it made me cry 😭 and intense sad , angry mixed emotion watching this movie! May God protect children from this horrible abusive system 🙏🏼
Yes...my sentiments too... this time in history it's happening even more, ...families becoming splintered. We were created to be loved as children, by our biological parents, to teach us to love our own children. The system is all mucked up.
It really pains and heart breaking to see authorities taking someone's brilliant children and give him back broken ones. 😭😭😭😭
so much pain, i was wondering if such things still goes on
@@maxwelldiko No! The laws have changed in many countries around the world.
And it still happens today 😢
@@maxwelldiko yes.
yeah, i can relate to this, i had to leave an abusive marriage with 4 small children. social services does this shit, they are evil and will all burn in hell. i survived, so did my children all because of God's grace. i managed against all odds to keep them with me, and today we live in our own house, truly blessed. my children are the most intelligent wonderful beings i know. i could never have asked for better. Thank you God for your grace and mercy
Social workers are childless controlling women who hate families especially hate fathers. They don’t care about you; they just wanna control your life and make you miserable. It’s a power play. Social workers are worse than pedophiles. I meant ALL of them.
I wish you all the love you all deserve!
Thank God. God bless you and your children. God is watching over all of you dear.
Well said. I have been 'helped' by what I call 'Christian dykes', I prefer to be homeless. One of the reasons I never had children is that I didn't want them to have the same childhood I had, and without a good income and stable housing, I knew I wouldn't have been able to protect them from social services and such.
Hallelujah! God bless you dear lsdy!
I thought there is no movie that will make me ever cry.Dear God !EVen now as i type ,i cant control the tears rolling down my face.I wish all social workers,police ,the judiciary and everyone responsible for the welfare of kids in need should watch this.I hope in this life i will never be part of causing such pain to other people.This movie touched me in a way i can not explain.And i recommend it to everyone who has a heart.
Hi
It’s just because it’s a HIERARCHY! NOBODY can make a’ custom made’ case by case decision, as THAT would be career suicide! This means ambitious status seeking individuals get to be in the ‘ Politically correct’( vote getting) driver’s seat!
Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua returning soon to reign over the world from Jerusalem forever.
Yes, the policeman should have reported the facility, and it should have been investigated. Clearly - according to what the boys were reporting - there were good reasons why they were running away.
Wow this movie brings tears to my eyes he go to the social protection for helping him baby sitting the kids the baby sitter bring a man into the home and sleep with an leave the kids in the yard unsupervised and go lie after they don't even look into it they just all be mean to him like he give up his children the system put them in a place 🌉 treat like terror about they dad wouldn't never treat him sons like that I would just advise the system into the future to take good look at all sides before taking children from the comfort home ow look at these kids they are cry but no one sees 😢😢😢 they all are heartless
Reality check. The judicial system is taking child support payments and putting them in their pockets. Not counting ripping off prisoners in jail. Keeping them their against their will ,using state money to hold them not counting court cost, procecutors and lawyers and judges are all involved. It's wicked and God will judge.
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The government should have given the father the money it cost to keep four children in that home. Can you imagine the cost? The cost to really screw up 4 beautiful children! What a hellish system. Many in these agencies are screwed up and shouldn’t be in charge of anyone’s children, not even their own!!
The gubberment is still screwing up people's lives. USA is the biggest child trafficker.
No different than today, either.
Its so sad that materialism is considered better than poverty with your real family! As a child id much rather be with my dad in poverty than a rich family or a horrific place these boys went! This is a shocking movie! Absolutly tragic!
this movie shines with honesty , it is brutal and not sugar coated...it is devastating to even think that they could go ahead with the procedure of a lobotomy on an innocent child, it gives me goose bumps to say the least...very sad & tragic too. if we only knew what horror's men do to each other, no other animal can even come close.... GOD bless ALL children !
They sterilized him.
Girls are also sterilized, with result they can be sexually abused without possible pregnancies.
There was no lobotomy. He was a terslized.
Rosemary Kennedy the poor girl , her story is pretty sad too and the true story of Prince John who was hidden away from public eyes as well. Rosemary Kennedy was given a Lobotomy too because any girls the system deemed encouragible were often treated this way in asylums and or sterilization was performed as well on young women.
Hope you don't mind. Just to correct you, It was not a lobotomy. Lobotomy or leucotomy is a form of neurosurgical treatment for psychiatric disorder or neurological disorder (e.g. epilepsy) that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex. The surgery causes most of the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain, to be severed.
It was a vasectomy, or vasoligation, which normally is an elective surgical procedure for male sterilization or permanent contraception. This was forced on the boy and it would have dire mental problems for him for the rest of his life knowing he could never have children.
Very sad indeed, but not as bad as a lobotomy that basically left you as a vegetable. Lobotomies were performed on a wide scale in the 1940s, with one doctor, Walter J. Freeman II in the US, performing more than 3,500 by the late 1960s. Thankfully, the practice fell out of favour in the mid-1950s after discovering medications that could help cure the illnesses lobotomies had been used for.
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Unlike with female sterilization, for males reversals are more successful, so was hoping in this case it could have been done for this boy.
It was because of MD Peter Breggin's persistent campaigning against it, that lobotomies eventually ceased as acceptable treatment modality. From then on he had been referred to as 'the conscience of psychiatry'. Interestingly he views many psychiatric medications; with their various negative effects; as to cause (what he refers to as) 'chemical lobotomies', and therefore advises patients to be weaned off them - under supervision.
What an incredible movie. This kind of thing actually happens. That's why we must care for our youth at risk.
That would have been wonderful. 🙂
@@laankebygg3685 Well put.
I agree but my question has always been “How”?? How do we help when the people in charge are so despicable? Writing to our government officials is a joke as many of them are pedos. It’s sickening to even think about. I just wish I knew how. I’m sure not all social workers are bonkers. But from what I’ve seen (and I’m 63) most of them don’t care they are overworked. Their caseloads are piled up on their desks. There’s not enough good S. Workers in the field. Oh god I could go on. I’m sorry for ranting. It’s just so upsetting
It happens and people should help the innocent parents save their minds, not wait for the kids to get so messed up people finally notice... N❤😊CPS took my children and ultimately gave them to my abusive ex, proven abusive by nanny can proof and police reports of his child abuse. Now I with severe and incurable physical medical issues am forced to pay the child abuser half my income, paying literally for on going child abuse of every kind known to man - EVERY kind known to man
Soon I will lose my job that I've had for years because due to being forced to pay for the on going child abuse I cannot afford to fix a vehicle I need to return to work over 200 miles away one way, for the jobs hybrid schedule.... If I could fix my vehicle to do it I would even though once I have to do the hybrid schedule again the child abuser would be getting MORE than half my income, getting paid to severely and likely legally abuse my minor children..... I'd still do it if I could, if so much wasn't getting stolen from me already paying for the heinous. Continuation of child abuse, because I'm just not used to getting fired, not used to getting fired, am not comfortable with crazy erratic senseless life changes, etc. But the money has been stolen from me for you long. There's no way I can pay to fix the van. No way I can buy another vehicle that'll work. Definitely no way to move closer and pay rent. Etc. Just no way. Impossible. My medical issues mean I can't work most jobs. ... After this happened to me I learned my situation is not rare. This is just what CPS does as the norm. Worse now than it's ever been in the past. CPS is so corrupt it cannot be fixed. And no I have no drug history and proved it. I have no criminal history. Etc etc
Yes the abuser lied about me but there's hard evidence proving what and who the abuser is... There's no hats evidence against me if any wrong doing because I never did anything horrific my entire life... I've never failed a work background check, etc.
Family, friends and neighbors, not "we" (the government).
A man like Mr. Jackson should be praised and appreciated 👏
The love of the father to his children is so touching that I can’t stop crying with them , I love this movie that I kept coming back and watched it again and again❤️
Me too! Just loved the father's love and devotion to his boys and it's so very true that a woman can ruin or make a man!!! And then the result of love, how the boys healed. I can watch this over and over again.
This film should be shown in colleges to educate what systems and authorities can do.
We're probably too late for that. Most colleges -- particularly the "humanities" departments -- are totally owned by group-victimhood agenda.
This movie would be torn apart and sabotaged as "propaganda of the evil oppressors trying to retain power".
We were asleep at the switch for perhaps too long to avoid at least a partial derailment of Western Society.
I know people who asked for help and were refused and yes there are bad people in protective services. A former family member is one of them. They have no business taking other peoples children when they failed to protect their own. But many go into social work because they were abused or came from divorce or traumatic situations
So wonderful when a man finds a woman who loves him and loves His children. This is really an example that all stepparents can learn
Now most of step parents are rapist...and bitch
I wept.
@@myrahsidik5499 Is that so Myrah? There's a lot of support if that's happening in a home.
A child can bring it up @ school, a woman can call a Crisis Line, if there's evidence in a Emergency Room, if someone walks by and sees or hears assaults & turns it in.
Unfortunately, help doesn't always come. The 1st or 2nd time a judgement call might not run it through. 3rd or more will. Children's voices are stronger to get help.
I'm sorry it happened to you... please don't repeat it to your Lady &/or kids, if you are, please get help for yourself @ Anger Meetings.
@@myrahsidik5499 And some parents are abusers! My son's ex was a abuser of their son and daughter! He has fought for years to get custody! She would agree to a custody agreement and then violate it. She keep my son from seeing his children for 9 months just to hurt him, not caring that she hurt the children. She brought men into the house who abused them, she did drugs in front of them. She married a man and had a baby by him and one day in the car she attacked him and he pulled over and she got all the kids out of the car and he left telling the police he couldn't deal with it. They moved every month nearly, so the kids were always going to a different school and leaving friends behind. Then all the kids were finally taken away from her and placed with grandparents. Thank God, Finally DFAC has done their job and put the kids with my son who has married a good woman who had 2 children of her own, loves my son's 2 and they now have 2 children of their own. He has a custody hearing on the 24th of August and hopefully the judge will see they finally have a stable home and give him full custody. Until then his ex has a say on what they can do and where they can go. Just a few day's ago she denied them being able to come on vacation to the beach for a family reunion. They are upset and brokenhearted as are the rest of us. My son refuses to place them in foster care just so the rest of the family can go on vacation and who can blame him, that wouldn't be right. The children are old enough now to see the toxic and vindictive person their mother is, she's doing that to hurt my son and his wife, not giving a damn that she is hurting the children from going to the beach, a trip that had been planned for months. So not ALL step parents are "rapist and bitches", my son's wife is a gem and she loves those kids and they love her.
@@priscillanaidoo7888 me too 😭😭😭
This is the most disturbing, saddest, heart wrenching movie I have ever seen. I thank God it had an outstanding ending.
U just ruined it😂😂
@@Anewceen
This movie, for me, was more for educational purposes. rather based on a true story, or not, this kind of stuff actually happens!
I had to watch the movie twice. The first time I was so sadly bummed, because I thought, why⁉️ The second time I watched it, I seen how the Lord Jesus had His hand in it, but He cannot take away freedom of choice, because love gives us freedom to choose for ourselves; Jesus was their the whole time! God was not allowing the devil to completely destroyed this family (He is in control in this world. As for people’s lives, He does as much as people allow Him to do without interfering with our choice of freedom. That includes evil deeds of following self/satan: one in the same! Jesus says, “if you’re not with me, you’re against me, if you don’t gather with me, you scatter” (Matthew 12:30).
We are in a cosmic war between good and evil. With October 31St coming up, it’s much more known that people love to be entertained by evil (even those professing to be Christians). This is the war we are in, but we have choice!
The reason this evil took place is because God allows certain things to go on to show that the devil’s ways can never work. to see it all for ourselves-To be educated to love the ways of the Lord because they are righteous and good and pure and perfect, and they work exactly the way He designed them to work, and hopefully, to live for His will and plan.
Although, The devil wants God’s position, because he believed he could do things better. So… Because the devil was the biggest leader of all angels in heaven, at one time: he was called Lucifer; and God has given him a certain amount of time allowing him to show what he had in mind. Once everyone has made their choice, sin will never rise up again. when all this is said and all is done; because God tells us what’s going to happen in the future, but we have to seek it out. We can sit around watching a bunch of movies, this October, that will do absolutely nothing for you [or] you can educate yourself, with the things that will be very helpful for you now, and for your future.
The devil’s ways appear like the world, doesn’t it? (Rhetorical question)
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Watch American Street Kid, a documentary that shows the other side of cps, the street. It was the saddest thing I ever watched and thought..”Is this STILL the America I grew up in ?”
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I’ll see if I can find it. Thanks
This movie touched me deeply. This father was able to bring all his children back home.
I'm sure life was difficult for this family as they worked through the damage done by their separation. Love gets us through.
Thanking you for telling how it ended!!!!
@@lorrainechavez3501 Saw the movie some time ago.
Can't watch it anymore.
My hatred for the authorities is getting too big
@@lorrainechavez3501 Don't read comments BEFORE watch the Movies!! ((( LOL Just sayin )))
The damage wasn't done by mere separation. It was done by the inhumane practices of government and medical institutions.
@@marcelinoperez2926 they're Nazis
I am not even two minutes into this story and I know that this will be personal for me. My paternal granddad emigrated here in 1914 from Italy when he was just 16. He apprenticed and married. He and his wife had 3 young children before her early death. He had no choice but to put them in an orphanage, the youngest being my uncle at 3. Once he found a woman deemed "viable" to marry and carry out the responsibilities of childrearing and keeping house, he was able to take them back. He visited them often and they were never "orphans".
Much kudos to you papa!!
Wow! I finally found this movie. I watched it over 20 years ago, and I've been looking for it since then. This movie brought tears to my eyes-tears I'd love to cry over and over again.
OMGoodness! I cried throughout the whole picture! I was orphaned at 9 weeks of age and raised from age 3 to almost 16 by loving, yet dysfunctional Christian parents. I located my bioligical father (Cole Clinton Zobel) in November 2001, but he had passed away in June 2000. I spoke with a neighbor of his in Columbia, South Carolina, who told me that she had no idea he had children from a previous marriage. There are 9 of us. I wish I could locate my siblings, but every lead I have found is a dead end. Although those boys endured the worst possible situations, they're truly fortunate to have that father who never gave up on reuniting them all.
DNA testing?
@@susanmei9980 I'm not wealthy enough for that endeavor. So far all suggestions have led me to my family members that have passed away. 4 of my eight siblings are deceased. 4 are still alive. My maiden name is Zobel. Where are all you Zobels?
@@sheristewart3940 I’m sorry. 2 Qs that came to my mind are:
1. Is it possible your bio dad didn’t even know your mom was pregnant? If so, he may have never known about you, and therefore didn’t know to even search for you. I bet he would have if he had known. 🤗
2. Since you were able to track down 4 of your siblings, even tho they were deceased, don’t they have any surviving relatives who cd help? I mean, were any of them married or had children who could point you in the right direction?
Ok, 3. Your bio dad’s neighbors: none of them knew he had kids or where they might be?
I know you can go down a bunny hole on the internet. If you look up the name of a known person and know one of the towns they lived in, you can search on their name. Many possibilities will come up. You can narrow it down by the town. It may also list other towns or states where they have lived. Then it will list the names of possible relatives and their ages; and sometimes their towns, etc.
Also, (4) was anyone ever able to tell you your bio mom’s maiden name?
Maybe you’ve already tried these things, but just in case . . .
(I love a good mystery. I’d probably be consumed. 😬)
@@sheristewart3940 Oh, I just reread your comments. So, is Zobel the name that came from your bio dad? Or bio mom? I’m confused. Did your adoptive parents know your bio parents? Or know their names? Or is Zobel your adoptive parents name?
@@susanmei9980 my biological father's name is: Cole Clinton Zobel. I don't divulge my biological mother's name because that information could assist bad people who steal people's identity.
For those of us who have suffered family tragedy and suffering, we can certainly identify with this story. Well executed. How sad that children suffer so -- I and my siblings did and there were none to help or rescue us. But God was keeping an eye and will judge accordingly, both in mercy and in justice.
Amen ❤❤❤
The same happened to my dad in 1965.Except our Mom abandoned us, she didnt die. The 5 of us were all put in the same abusive ( including sexual) & neglectful foster home - way out in the boonies and werent checked on for 2 years, but then - when we were - were all split up into separate ones. Im now 52 and still healing\ dealing with the trauma.Yet, consider myself still fortunate & blessed , as some children have it a lot worse. ( I met my Dad at age 24 and we had a wonderful relationship, until he passed 4 yrs later).
Brenda Brinkman Pasichnyk The same things also happened to My Dad & his family. Most ran off and abandoned 5 kids, this was the 1940's. My father never saw either of his parents again. Did find his brothers & Sisters though. The couple that adopted my dad was like living in Hell. I don't understand how the state can think their doing good by taking the children and placing them in abusive homes. My Biological Grandfather wanted his children and tried until the day he died. My dad was 10 yrs old and his Biological father died on his Birthday, which was also Christmas Day 1949. So sad I always Cry through this entire movie!!!
Bless you.
Brenda Brinkman Pasichnyk i
I am so sorry to hear that...but the evil ones WILL pay mark my words. Blessings dear friend
There is a big story to be told here. I had two adopted brothers, and several cousins who were also adopted. I know from stories told within the family the horrors that were and still are occurring out there. The first thing my adopted brother, Alex, said to my parents was, "when are we going to the next home"? (beautiful children, like many who had been traumatized). My brother Alex always said that he felt he was missing a rung from the bottom of his life's ladder. He and his brother, Danny eventually located their mother. The father had died. They came out of a bad environment; however, they had a lovely half sister who worked as a social worker. She had a little boy who looked exactly like Danny when Danny was young.
My nephews grandmother said her family would move oftentimes to evade the authorities during the sixties scoop of indigenous children.
My two great aunts were Bernardo children who came over to Canada before their brothers who were in work houses and listed as paupers. The stories told regarding the British Home Children are most times horrendous; they were called gutter rates (bought for $1 and sold to farmers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand to work until they were 18 for $7). Eugenics was quite popular in Canada as well as Europe and we are still hearing stories of young women being forced into sterilization.
The story told is that the system was set up with good intentions; however, seeing what happens to so many well adjusted children when they end up in the system because of the death of their parents or for other reasons, reveals an almost, if not, evil system. More movies like this need to be made in order to reveal what is still happening to many children.
I'm glad you met your dad and that you had a wonderful relationship with him.
Take care.....
I have cried my eyes out over this movie; raising 2 little boys that lost their mom; i want to tell their mom what wonderful young men they are.
What a love of a father who struggles to keep his family together in a world of cold hearts, yet he strives and toils to gather his boys back. I was moved by this story, amen.
What a great movie it is really the truth when the government has all the power to take everything away from you, if you can’t see it, there’s nothing to say people never wants to see or hear the truth they always walk away from it. Thank you. A great. Moving story.
What a sad, tragic movie. That it was based on real events makes me sick to my stomach. What those dear children went through was barbaric.
The shining goodness of the second wife and the doctor who helped Richard home lit up an otherwise bleak and horrific story. The performances by Mark Harmon and all four children were superb. Heartbreaking, but superb.
This story could be repeated over and over and over again by many others. Child Protective Service should be called child abusive services for they only cause more abuse to children period! Itneeds to go this organiztion it is so evil what it does. I doubt people even know this about CPS. Simply do alittle research, start with Nancy Schaefer on you tube/The Corruption of CPS.
I must say, this movie brings a lot of tears to my eyes. That is a true father indeed. Children always be the first to suffer in every situation. When all they need is just your love and protection
This is what government does. Those boys had limitless love. The government took it from them with impunity
the department and the SYSTEM Don't know that. they were not programmed for suchhumane concerns.
@@diegofranco5799 Apparently they are programmed to assume control & ruin as many as possible! Or is too often the case!
People need to help innocent parents like he was, like I am, but no one ever does.. there's no resources for us either. CPS took my children and ultimately gave them to my abusive ex, proven abusive by nanny can proof and police reports of his child abuse. Now I with severe and incurable physical medical issues am forced to pay the child abuser half my income, paying literally for on going child abuse of every kind known to man - EVERY kind known to man
Soon I will lose my job that I've had for years because due to being forced to pay for the on going child abuse I cannot afford to fix a vehicle I need to return to work over 200 miles away one way, for the jobs hybrid schedule.... If I could fix my vehicle to do it I would even though once I have to do the hybrid schedule again the child abuser would be getting MORE than half my income, getting paid to severely and likely legally abuse my minor children..... I'd still do it if I could, if so much wasn't getting stolen from me already paying for the heinous. Continuation of child abuse, because I'm just not used to getting fired, not used to getting fired, am not comfortable with crazy erratic senseless life changes, etc. But the money has been stolen from me for you long. There's no way I can pay to fix the van. No way I can buy another vehicle that'll work. Definitely no way to move closer and pay rent. Etc. Just no way. Impossible. My medical issues mean I can't work most jobs. ... After this happened to me I learned my situation is not rare. This is just what CPS does as the norm. Worse now than it's ever been in the past. CPS is so corrupt it cannot be fixed. And no I have no drug history and proved it. I have no criminal history. Etc etc
Yes the abuser lied about me but there's hard evidence proving what and who the abuser is... There's no hats evidence against me if any wrong doing because I never did anything horrific my entire life... I've never failed a work background check, etc.
I’m not sure why I think of this movie so much but I’ve watched it 8 times. It just breaks my soul to see how these kids were treated. It was wrong on every level. They were not mentally retarded. They were brothers that stuck together like glue. They needed the love of their parents. When their mom died. Their father tried. All he wanted was help with his boys. The government failed these kids tremendously. But god stood still. He was able to trace those kids and find them . Years later his love never wavered for his boys . He made it happen . A loving wife and a home for all of them . What true love of a father that cared so much. May god bless this kids.
What a heart breaking movie! I couldn't stop crying. Those poor sweet kids. It's sad that it's inspired by true events. The system is so cockeyed.
I was actually waiting to see if he would ask the lady at the office, if she had her own children. She's cruel and bitter like a witch that had killed all her children. Really loved the end part. Great movie.
I agree! I wish he could have sued them all! But Thank GOD he got his boys back & was prepared that they were damaged & needed tons of tlc to heal! Those types won't escape GOD'S Justice!
But this office lady maybe is asent demon to scare us. But l really like sturbing him may be she has no heart
i am 72, watched it and cried. Homeless institutions should all be held accountable for all the atrocities they dish out to unfortunate and disadvantaged children. No one person should be given any powers above and beyond the law to treat a child the way those people did. The boys were lost without their single parent. They needed all the TLC they could get, instead, the carers beat them stupid, and the authorities i.e. the police did nothing about questioning those ruthless carers for beating them insane and referring them to mental institutions without any given reasons.
Bernard, are you aware of the Invisible children? child soldiers under joseph kony in Uganda rebel army= these children are tortured, mutilated, and forced to kill their own family- and that is going on as I write!!!!\
from author of : Pots Did Stop- read back cover, if you like.
best wishes,
I agree with one word: Atrocities. I have seen a lot on a daily basis. I have heard stories about my nearest neighborhood a few blocks from my apartment. There was a homeless shelter, and the staff did nothing at all to help prevent the incidents from ever taking place--i.e. wards stealing stuff from others like money, cell phones, food, anything of utmost importance. My club has seen its share of abuse as well. They were supposed to be stable, but sadly it's anything but stable. A handful of members became abusive to staff and other members--mostly verbal, but in rare occurrences, physical. All of it is true. It is different, but quite similar. And yes, altercations are becoming all the more common and staff are not enough to deal with the problem before it got worse--not even the police. Even the neighborhood I live in are overrun by drug labs with police doing only very little to end the situation.
It still happens
So much injustice towards the father and sons, but a happy ending all of them together is a beautiful touch!
I am overwhelmed! I used to work in an Institution, though at a better time. Still, there was abuse and neglect, a very sad life for the folks who were placed there because they were runaways or promiscuous. This was a great movie!
This is one of the best TV movies. Mark Harmon did a great job and you just feel so angry at a system that would hurt innocent little children and then blamed Elmer for not being there when they were the ones that did it to them.
Exactly!
Yes, yes, this movie touched my heart so deeply.
@@pamelathomas2862 So hearbreaking! Made me cry.
I did watch it once. Tragic!
It still happens today
What the system did to those poor boys is a crime. Glad they were reunited in the end. Great movie indeed.
What a movie so emotional . Tears of my heart. I’m so glad they made it back together. But what they went through was so painful for all of them . I will always love this movie great actors .
Oh my God. What a movie. My boy is about the same age now as Richard was by the end of the movie. As a protective father, this got me right square in the gut. Thank you for posting it.
They were taken from a loving father to a cruel system where they were abused and reduced to a state of retardation. From the Welfare officer the judge to the doctors....
Wow, so heart touching
What a great film it really shows how the authorities can do what they like, it's disgusting! I cried loads and at the end I was sobbing!
Trust me, the system is NO better now. Made me bawl like a baby.
buddywayne1 it's true
The acting and the coaching of the kids is simply superb! Amazing movie, and I really wish we could have new movies as well acted as this. Kids in new movies are obnoxious and arrogant. Unrealistic. This movie really serves as a great example of excellent movie making.
I am watching this movie after 25 yrs or so. What a movie. Loved to see it again.
amazing. ..brought tears to my eyes. .
A father can be just as good as a mother
The most beautiful, sad "real" movie I have ever seen. I have never been the same since watching it, for the better. What a beautiful man, loving committed father who should of never had his boys taken away. The step. Other is just a. Exceptional loving woman./step mother The psychologist who reunited Richard & his father is just a wonderful human being who went above and beyond his duties . A must see movie. 💖
Krystal ... ME TOO !! I Was a little kid around 9 or so , and watched it with my dad. At the end, I was crying so much , I was hyperventilating, ( you know how kids do when we get worked up at that age) my dad rubbing my back, for comfort. and after I started to calm down, I could hear my dad cry in back of me. I didn't look back at him, not sure why , I didn't want to embarrass him or maybe I didn't want to see my father cry. I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE SEEN MY DAD CRY , NEVER HAVE ...BUT I KNOW HE DID THAT ONE TIME. I WAS EMOTIONALLY BORN AFTER THIS MOVIE. I cannot explain it, it emotionally woke me up and scared me for life at the same time. THIS DESERVED TO BE ON THE SILVER SCREEN, IF SO IT WOULD HAVE WON OSCARS. THAT POWERFUL.
Not sure it was beyond his duty as a moral person to see to the well being and emotional well being of another human being. Caring and doing the right thing is never above and beyond duty. He cared, he observed, he did his homework, and did what was right and stood up for him and against wrong. This is everyone’s duty.
As a survivor of the youth system / ward to the state, I can plainly state that this film does accurately depict what it is like being in the system
Beautiful movie. Brutal and beautiful, but life does that sometimes. I too had dark beginnings and suffered severe abuse as my father had brain cancer and brutal surgery by the time I was 5, and my parents had divorced by then. So as you can imagine I was moved to tears watching the trama of the young boys, a bit close to home. I was subjected to a horrific day care in my developing years, and suffered abuse well beyond this. I even spent time in foster care between living briefly with my grandmother and then my father and horrific step mother. Eventually I grew up with my mother and step father and he was unspeakable, or at least what he did to me and other children including my brother was. I survived. Love is the thing. I had a terrific mother with trauma of her own and later in life we became allies in recovery. My grandmother and father were amazing. My great grand mother angelic. Mark Harmon shines here. All I could see was his intense love for his boys and I knew that love would be their saving grace. Tears are cleansing and I had some flowing during parts of this film. The woman who played his girl friend is a terrific actress. I remeber her as Christina in "Mommy Dearest" and Cher's girlfriend in "Silkwood". I'm old, lol. Thank you for this movie, deeply moving and yes heart wrenching too. But in the end humanizing. Love is the ultimate power in the universe, John said God is love, I John, I believe. I know those boys were okay as they became men, you see all that love would have healed them. Isn't that what gets us all by in this beautiful but brutal world. Much love.
My brother and sisters watched this as kids all the time. It's kind of ironic because my dad was very abusive. I love this movie. I met mark Harmon at the children's center in bethany, Oklahoma where I worked. It was a place for disabled or abused children. He was such a nice man. He came and played baseball with the kids that were able. I think this movie helped him to help others.
Wow, what a great story about Mark Harmon.
Really good movie. Brought me back to the days of a child being in the foster care system myself and how the system can be so cruel on tearing up families I'm glad to see more dad's involved with their kids nowadays.
The Courts still make it very difficult for Fathers, It's that Biased attitude that makes it so difficult.
Was your situation as bad as the movie?
Thank God i love my daughter unconditionally we have been through he'll and back but we made it
I love this movie
One of the most tragic yet joyous movies of all time!
Beautiful movie. I spent 1 year in a foster home 1957. Very kind and loving family. Even made sure I attended Catholic school.
I would love to see the follow-up movie to this true story. One has to wonder how they all healed. It breaks my heart to see the horrible acts of the "system". I have heard horror stories over the years about Social workers taking children away and placing them in "HOMES" for their own good. Elmer never had a voice for his own children. So real and so sad.
Mr and my brother and sister was in many foster homes, we were separated from each other. My sister and brother were put in a elderly couple s. Home ,they miss treated them and starved them. They locked them up at night in a wooden shed. At night.
Yes! I know of 1 family where the boy immediately recanted & said he was just mad at his parents for telling him no. They finally got him back years later, constantly in trouble with the law, on drugs & extremely difficult to handle & had learned every bad habit & nothing good! Beyond heartbreaking!
THIS MOVIE IS EXTREMELY POWERFUL!!! What a powerful message that it has to it!!!
11 yrs ago since this movie was posted and it still brings tears. Imagine, this probably happened in real life, but only worse. The State... enough said!
I still cannot believe that the state took his kids solely because there wasn’t a woman caring for them.
That movie certainly touched a nerve in me. I was impressed by the fact that Elmer Jackson did not give up but he persisted. Obviously, neither the social worker, the state, of the police knew what was best for those boys. And his new wife was so understanding. A very touching move! So glad that he got them all back again.
The 1 social worker along with that "foster home" were psychopaths that enjoyed torturing others! She deliberately took children from a loving Dad, &b if she would have checked home situation would have found out they had an adult there keeping an eye when Dad at work. But some, too many, get power hungry & use it as an outlet for their abusive desires! Too many children's lives destroyed as a result! There is no greater pain than loosing a child, let alone all 4 at once! It is actually a blessing the Dad didn't know the horrors his kids were facing! They will never be truly healed from the damage done to them for no reason but he in his desperation trying to do what was best asked for a little help! The government doesn't help, it just controls! A lot of places the church used to be the overseers of children orphaned or in distress! We the people need to be vigilant & protective of our next generations! Help a neighbor in need & speak up! I loved the new wife who had immediate compassion & helped get the back! Beautiful & heart wrenching story. Similar happens all too often! GOD bless the children & those who work to protect & defend them & their loved ones!
These kids were lucky. Normally kids aren't lucky and no one helps innocent parents like me and so many others. There are no resources for us in today's world.. CPS took my children and ultimately gave them to my abusive ex, proven abusive by nanny can proof and police reports of his child abuse. Now I with severe and incurable physical medical issues am forced to pay the child abuser half my income, paying literally for on going child abuse of every kind known to man - EVERY kind known to man
Soon I will lose my job that I've had for years because due to being forced to pay for the on going child abuse I cannot afford to fix a vehicle I need to return to work over 200 miles away one way, for the jobs hybrid schedule.... If I could fix my vehicle to do it I would even though once I have to do the hybrid schedule again the child abuser would be getting MORE than half my income, getting paid to severely and likely legally abuse my minor children..... I'd still do it if I could, if so much wasn't getting stolen from me already paying for the heinous. Continuation of child abuse, because I'm just not used to getting fired, not used to getting fired, am not comfortable with crazy erratic senseless life changes, etc. But the money has been stolen from me for you long. There's no way I can pay to fix the van. No way I can buy another vehicle that'll work. Definitely no way to move closer and pay rent. Etc. Just no way. Impossible. My medical issues mean I can't work most jobs. ... After this happened to me I learned my situation is not rare. This is just what CPS does as the norm. Worse now than it's ever been in the past. CPS is so corrupt it cannot be fixed. And no I have no drug history and proved it. I have no criminal history. Etc etc
Yes the abuser lied about me but there's hard evidence proving what and who the abuser is... There's no hats evidence against me if any wrong doing because I never did anything horrific my entire life... I've never failed a work background check, etc.
So sad that these kids were ripped from the only person in the world to care for them. Sadder....in all the officials and authorities there was only one that ever cared.
And saddest of all.....these children had to endure many unwarranted years of abuse and torture.
This fathers testament of love fort his boys was truly inspiring!!!!!!
This is happening to me today with my son who has autism
It's still heartbreaking to see such sadness in a movie that was based on true story
I can't hold my tears
The love of the father is so touching, thank you for the beautiful and touching ending
I lived in a town where State Home and Training school was. We had friends who worked there. In the era of this movie Fathers were not considered caregivers, the scenes are pretty realisitc. What happened to the oldest child is the worst. Forced vasectomy and he was not slow or disabled. Laws have changed. This is almost a miracle that this loving father got his sons home again.
Oh my gosh-absolutely heartbreaking movie. I wish there was a part 2, showing how the children adjusted to being reunited with their Father.
Maybe Richard had a reversal of the vasectomy? The authorities should have been sued for what they had done to these boys!
I was thinking the same thing, April, would love to know if the boys continued their recovery in their new home - love being the most powerful medicine.
Agreed
@@annetteheatherwalker His second wife was an angel. Taking on someone else's children isn't always easy and this woman had 4 mentally disturbed boys. It's a great example of the power of love.
The boys probably never fully recovered. However, they were shown the love they had been deprived of which would help them learn to trust again.
It makes me cry just thinking of their pain.
@@paigeturner5358 yes...I still cant get over d children n der trauma
What a sad family story, but a beautiful ending. I’m like
everyone else who cried through the whole movie. I just can’t believe how the System took these boys away thinking they can provide these boys with good family careers. They had a good father and what wright has that ignorant and arrogant, Social Worker, who doesn’t know anything about the Father of these children, are beyond my knowledge. They are prejudiced people who thinks they are doing good not just for the Jackson Family, but also for a lot more broken up Families like this particular Family. May God bless you all out there, who has been through this traumatic experience…😭😭🙏😇❤️❤️❤️❤️
My whole heart is rolling down my cheeks!!! Praise God for the man who helped these babies !! Praise God for the Woman who loves them as her own and Praise God they are all together again… and Praise God for sweet Melissa !! Praise God for the Daddy who did not give up no matter how much time passed by!!
No matter what happen, a parent will always be a parent to their children. Love is what we need to get back on track.
God bless each family and be guided with love, respect, and value one another.
At the age of 6 months old I became a ward of the state of New York. I have been in foster homes and a girls home. I have experienced abuse in many different forms. This movie gives me hope even though those boys went through all that they were reunited with there birth father. I am 55 years old now and still have not been able to find any of my family.
Oh god! God bless you and help you and give you better days.This is so sad..I hope you will be fine now and have friends who love you even if you didn't find your family.
God keep you very close; and you will find healing and peace.
This happened to my family 10 boys two girls ..the girls went to grandma's house some of the boys went to their dad's and 4 of us went into this same situation with the state I still bare the scar's today..both physically and emotionally... This movie was like a rewind of my life.
I’m sorry your family had to endure that also. It’s such a sad situation to put kids through that . God bless you .
@@pamelathomas2862 it's okay sweetie what had seem to be my failure became my strength..I have become an extremely beautiful person inside and I guide others in love and truth from my father's book 😊 oh and yes I also am very successful in business matters. 😁 God bless you also and thank you sweetie
I'm a movie addict, but I have never come across something as this that I almost cried my eyes out.Too frustrating and devastating 😭 😭
I am the oldest of 7 children that were separated from our parents one Halloween night and taken in to state care. As a result of this...even now us 7 are like strangers...so much time was lost where we didn't know where our siblings were, etc. I was 12 then but, even now at 52 those old wounds are raw...only The Creator can heal.
As a single mother, I can say the system is not any better today than it was then. My personal experience is similar to this one. Seems the government has only been working on perfecting their method of destroying families and lives, instead of improving and learning from their mistakes.
I agree with you Toni, it's not right. We have stop feeling powerless and start support groups and make these institions stand accountable. My heart goes out to you
Toni Probst
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Shame on them!
If you loved children, this is a hard movie to watch! A terrible injustice done to the father and his four boys!
I've watched this movie 4 years ago but the impact on my emotions still there until now😢😢😢
The cast did a great job profileing what has happened in earlier years. Although a happy ending, I believe this still happens today
It is still happening.
So much more than we'll ever know .😢
My husband at the age of 5 was put in boarding school in India, he went trough hell 😢😢😢 his father choose his military career and mother was house wife cooking for strangers as her father in law was doing ministry.....
I remember watching this movie when it aired on regular television. Better without the commercials. It was sad watching as a kid and flooding tears now at 44!
What a tear jerker! So horrible, but in the end Love heals all! Thank God they came back together as a family!
OMG...I am an old 65 years man... Suddenly in the end of the movie I burst in tears...Shit... It is a damn heart wrenching movie...So touching....it inspired me to volunteer myself in my own country into children socials networks to see everythings they go through are not allowed to be what I saw in this terrible child abused movie by all means with my best capabilitie with my Funds anything I could ever think of in anyways to help them...Orphans or Broken Homes...May My Lord Jesus Help me😢...Amen🙏🍃
Amen
It is such a sad and touching story. In the final scene the actor (who played the son) has done such a great performance. He starts crying, when he meets his father again.
Watched this movie in the 90's and can't have enough of it. The most emotional part is at the very end of it, the reunion of Elmer and Richard.
I'm struggling now Irthington once will be enough.😢😢
Quiet
@@ravenbaa7989facts, like it’s a thriller and u shouldn’t destroy it for others who haven’t watched. That’s either selfish or slowness that made him do that.
Thank u bc now I don’t even want to watch it now so THANKS ALOT🤦🏾♀️💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾leave it to🦦🐢🫵🏾🤡💩🤫😒😡🤬
@@royaltygang886 You do realise you don't have to read the comments, right? This is quite different from someone verbally telling you the story against your will.
People like this should never have power over other people's lives.
The heartbreaking part is that this is based on actual events.
Hope the social worker, foster parents, babysitter, judge, and policemen were repaid 1000 times over for their evil.
I watched this movie when i was still a kid and stayed with me through all my adulthood! Amazing story and still can make me cry like a little kid.... thanks for uploading !
Awwwwww, bawling my eye's out!!! My six siblings and I went through very similar circumstances. Praise Yah, we are all in contact together. Yah is good, ALL the time!!!!
+Kathleen Bemis Me too, Kathleen. This is sad.
twinkle Bell May God bless you, Sister. If it weren't for God and His love for me, I never would have been able to lay my past experiences to rest. This is sad indeed. I'm just glad that their Dad got custody of his children. It's sooooo traumatic that the children went through so much terror and fear.
Great movie!! Incredibly heartbreaking & yet hopeful when they returned to their father. I wish there was another part to show how the boys were after coming home.
Ave know it was happy adjustments, once home with siblings and Daf!
My niece had her children taken
Though the children were in school clean, well fed etc just a small glitch in Colorado new laws! The children are still having adjustment problems as this dad was accused of abandoning the children as he had to work dsys!
11 year's ago, but i want the part 2. I love this movie. I'd always cry. Their father loves them. I want part 2 of this movie. I want to see how they treat them stepmother ❤and how their stepmom to treat them. Until they get married 🙏🏼🙏🏼 ❤😊
I thought my tear ducts stopped working after not crying in years but this old show got me bawlin my eyes out and up in my feelings 😢.
A good movie to watch, its sad that so many children are suffering in foster care, but always know that there are good kind people out there that are genuine , kind and very caring to all children.
Wow, best movie.
I went through the same thing that this Dad did.
I cried all the way through this movie.
I thank God, I had grace and mercy, to watch this movie
Without family we are nothing.
And we cannot rely on faith alone. We need the Everlasting Promises to overcome what the devil throws at us.
THE SPIRIT & WORD!
Because Satan hates family.
If the devil can kill or take the parents away. He has got our children.
Why does everyone want to blame God our Heavenly Father?
It is the devil that is the power of death, says, (Hebrews 2:14.)
God loves family, read ( Ephesians 3:14-21).
THIS WAS THE BEST MOVIE I EVER WATCHED IN MY LIFE!!!
And I believe God put this movie in my presence supernaturally.
So True the devil will try to divide families but our God is faithfull
Sudegayel Rogers m
how are you doing today with grace and mercy
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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sudegayel rogers.....lets just say I am the god of this world and all things seen and unseen, I love my children with an everlasting love, why would I give power to the devil to harm my children? Why would I show and tell only a hand full of people that I am and not tell all that they would truly know me. Why would I take so much time through many generations and the suffering of my children, and the fear, sadness, void, and all the hurtful actions and reactions of my children because I have not been clear to them that I am here where they can see me and enjoy me, and to love one another here and now? Lastly, why would I put them in a broken world when I am and can do all things right and fair? I am not asking these questions for an answer bet to make thinking people to use their minds to think clearly and come up with the true answers to these questions.
Omg!!!! I haven't cried with a movie like today with this one. I not only cried but was soooo mad with the system. Thank God there's still some good on this earth......and they'll help and will go above and beyond for others. 😢❤
These kids went thru so much. The dad didn't even deserve to lose his kids. Words can't express what this so-called system we have/had for the children. I never did understand how the system can take your children away when you're doing the best you can, but will leave a child in an abusive/neglected household. Putting a child in foster care just to be abused, this is our so-called system. The so-called system sucks.
If this movie does not bring you to tears...I think then nothing would. When this father is no being treated with respect and given an attorney to represent him and get his boys back. This is just awful how they treated people back then.
good movie, I agree with the person that said that" this movie can make a stone cry"
Tear jerker....from a former social worker and clinician in hospital and schools...sad so much hasnt changed really in the "machine' but the hope and love this film brings forward is well....a tear jerker.
My heart breaks for this man and his kids every time I watch this movie! I'm so happy they found each other again! Great movie! A tear jerker for sure! Thanks for sharing it!
I cry to see what those children goes thank god he get his children back he a really good dad
+amesha bah Me too;still crying.
+amesha bah still crying.. can't help it
Heartbreaking movie. Couldnt hold back the tears😢😢
The saddest 😢 av ever watched...it tore my heart...fathers are priceless...
Good Lord! Heartbreaking! I'm sure all of the people running the "system" would tell us they're good Christians, doing what's best for these poor children. And we wonder why today we're now trying children as adults in courts across the country for murder, among other things. I've thought about this problem a lot lately, wondering where the solution lies in order to help the beautiful little kids in difficult circumstances before they lose hope and commit the irreparable. These boys needed love, hugs and compassion, as did the dad. The system failed them then and continues to fail children today. Too sad for words, but motivating, because we can surely do better than we're doing. Love moves mountains and transforms lives. We need to put it to work where the lost, lonely children of this world are concerned, and every where else, for that matter. Peace
These people don't consider themselves Christians. Only govt actors doing a govt job. The system they work for is predicated in control, and destruction of families, and the minds of the innocent. Now the title social worker is adequate.
The young son hit it on the head when he asked "how much are they paying you?". Sadly that is the reason for many taking in children.
Hey nubbitz.
WE'RE running the system. It does what a majority of us care to vocalize to our official representation! Our laziness doesn't entitle us to complain that those who bother to make their wishes for the society vocally known are running off with the apple cart!
The problem is ideology at work tends to generate a LOT of ideologues who are VERY assertive and vocal with their official representatives. Just like that toxic woman in the movie that started everything. She moved first, made the more emotional "victimhood" case (even though she had been the one abusing almost everyone she touched or had charge over).
And still, 88 years later, what defense does a man have against a woman who moves first, with an emotional victimhood case? Things are starting to perhaps maybe slowly change. But for every case where the "devouring witch" gets a hand-slap or token sentence, there are volumes of cases where men (and increasingly young boys) have their life devastated.