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- A surrogate mom for a couple becomes dangerously obsessed with the soon-to-be father.
- Police detectives investigate the apparent serial killing of several children after finding severed hands.
- A Los Angeles psychiatrist testifies for the prosecution in the trial of an accused child molester. Later the defendant, who is out on bail, is found dead in the psychiatrist's office, in what appears to be a suicide. Shaken, the psychiatrist moves to the mountains outside of L.A. Not long afterwards a detective he knows comes to him for help. A seven-year-old girl saw someone kill both of her parents, but is so traumatized by the event that she can't remember anything, and the detective wants the doctor to help jar her memory. Soon, however, the doctor and the detective discover that the parents' murder and the pedophiles "suicide" may be linked to a shadowy group of wealthy and influential pedophiles, and that the child isn't the only one whose life is in danger.
- When The Bough Breaks is a feature length documentary about postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. Narrated and Executive Produced by Brooke Shields, this shocking film uncovers this very public health issue which affects one in five new mothers after childbirth. The film follows Lindsay Gerszt, a mother who has been suffering from PPD for six years. Lindsay agrees to let the cameras document her and give us an in depth look at her path to recovery. We meet women who have committed infanticide and families who have lost loved ones to suicide. Babies are dying, women aren't speaking out and the signs are being missed. When The Bough Breaks takes us on a journey to find answers and break the silence.
- A former Texas Ranger (McGillis) is recruited by a Houston police captain (Dern) to assist a homicide detective (Moffett) in the search for an elusive serial killer (David) who collects antique dolls.
- Emotional strains of adoption. A young mother hands over her baby to foster parents, but struggles to let go emotionally. Her obsession affects the lives of those around her, including the child.
- When The Bough Breaks is about postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis. Narrated and Executive Produced by Brooke Shields, this shocking film uncovers this public health issue which affects one in five new mothers after childbirth.
- A village must face the consequences when they are unable to provide the yearly sacrifice which secures their safety and way of life. The sky grows dark and the air goes cold as howls emanate from the forest. Something evil, something angry, is coming for what belongs to them.
- A woman with a guilty secret is harassed by a mysterious caller.
- On the outskirts of Beijing, two teenage girls from a migrant family struggle to earn the money to pay for their brother's schooling with little help from their troubled and eccentric parents. Growing up in a rickety hut on a garbage-filled lot, Xia, Ling, and Gang recognize that a good education is their only possible ticket to a better life. Their older sister, who left school to begin working, has disappeared, likely kidnapped and sold into prostitution. As migrants, they are prevented by China's hukou (residence permit) system from attending a free public school, and when the school that had provided them with scholarships closes, they are forced to look for new options. With very little money to their name, they place all their hopes in Gang, the older brother. Their complicated home life doesn't make things any easier. Their alcoholic father and their mother are frequently at one another's throats, and do not seem to understand the gravity of their children's situation.
- Élodie and Issa, both 17 years old, spend a few days in a forest. They encounter Romain, a 25-year-old man on the run.
- Family life suffers when vices take hold.
- It has been said that when you incarcerate a woman, you imprison a family. Most female inmates are mothers, and most are locked up for non-violent offenses. As prison populations rise, so does the problem of lost children - already a quarter million of them. This hour-long documentary looks from the children's perspectives at three Missouri families. The children's day-to-day lives in the film gives a clear picture of how the US justice system perpetuates the very problems it seeks to prevent. "When the Bough Breaks" questions who does the harder time, the inmate mothers, or their children? The youngsters make clear that, regardless of a mothers' crime, the urgent desire for her love shapes their lives. "When the Bough Breaks" explores the emotional impact on children whose mothers are imprisoned for non-violent crimes, particularly drug-related prostitution and theft. The children's day-to-day lives give a clear, up-close picture of how the American justice system perpetuates the very problems it seeks to prevent. Filmed over the course of a year, three Missouri families tell their stories as the children are bounced between social workers, foster parents, grandparents and visits with their moms in prison. This intimate documentary reveals how entire families are punished when mothers are imprisoned. These youngsters are often left in the custody of extended family members where their needs are misunderstood, where poverty prevails and where they suffer emotional neglect and abuse. With prison populations quadrupling and more than a quarter million children left behind, responsibilities confronting our society become real through their young, articulate voices. Although those who break the law must expect punishment, how can we balance the needs of children against a justice system that often deals lengthy sentences for victimless crimes? When drugs are the cause, why is prison the solution? And who does the harder time, the mothers or their children? The youngsters make clear that regardless of a mother's crime, the urgent desire for her love shapes their lives. As sons and daughters reveal their longings, which are palpable especially during their visits to their moms in prison, their common desire for love makes them eloquent examples of the more than 250,000 youngsters in the United States who suffer from this separation daily. WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS asks whether separating families is wise public policy, and raises real questions about the nature of a society that prizes punishment more than restorative justice. In the hour film, mothers, their children and their caretakers openly discuss their personal experiences and heartaches. The following summarizes their stories... Laura and Missy Eight-year-old Laura cannot control her temper, while six-year-old Missy cannot control her tears. "I see changes. I know Laura, my eight-year-old, she is angry, she's so angry. Missy, she's just withdrawn. She still sucks her little finger," says their mother Susie, who has been in jail for two years for one count of forgery. There was no one else to care for them, so they moved in with their ailing grandparents. Their grandmother resents the burden, while their loving grandfather cares for the two girls' emotional and physical needs. "It's hard on me, hard on her grandmother. It's hard on a lot of people. You think you send one person to jail? Uh-uh, it affects a lot of people," says Grandpa. As months stretch ahead before their mother's release, Grandpa suddenly passes away and the girls are moved down the street, forced to cope with their aunt who is herself in emotional distress. She says, "They latched onto me, to where I can't...God bless their heart -- I don't mind, but they just, I couldn't hardly breathe." Meanwhile, the children fear they will never see their mother again. Roosevelt, Jr. Handsome 15-year-old Roosevelt, Jr. calls three different women "Mom": his inmate mother, his stepmother and his favorite foster mother. He returned to live with his stepmother and ex-convict father after three years in the foster system. His stepmother Ophelia, who has cared for him the longest, is determined to keep him from repeating his parents' mistakes. "Just 'cuz his mom's been there, his father's been there, it's not like a hereditary thing. You don't inherit incarceration." Since Roosevelt's father has spent most of his own adulthood behind bars, he is at a loss as to how to nurture his son. "It was something new to me, really, after being away so long. 'Cause when moms and grandmothers were standing in for the sickness and all them nights up, I didn't have to deal with it." His new wife, Roosevelt's stepmother, is a strong and caring woman. "He's my kid. Yeah. And even when his mom comes home, he's still gonna be my kid. She's gonna have to really prove herself to get my baby back. She's not gonna get him back really easily. She's gonna have to deserve him back, earn him back. Not because she's just Mom," says Ophelia, Roosevelt's stepmother. "You go through changes with children coming into the foster care program. They come into your house. So you go through a honeymoon stage. And then they're mad, they're angry, 'Why is my life like this?'" says Roosevelt's foster mother Sonya. As Roosevelt, Jr. admits, "With your mom and dad, you score a touchdown. With your step-parents, you're always one yardline from the goal." Once his mother is released from prison, who will he choose to live with? About his mother, Roosevelt says, "It's nothing she can do to bring it back or anything. It's like a big piece of a puzzle missing. And when she gets out, we'll just continue it from there. Within time, I guess it'll fit itself back in. But we'll have to wait on that." John, Angie and Tanya "She says that she hopes that I don't end up like her and stuff. I tell her I ain't gonna end up like her. I ain't." --Angie "I don't never cry or get mad when she gets arrested. 'Cause it's her fault. Ain't nobody's fault but hers. I ain't cried in three or four years. I don't never cry." --John John has spent most of his teenage years in homes for troubled youths. "Me and my mom's boyfriend used to get into fights a lot. He used to try to beat me up until I started hitting him back. One time I got fed up with it and started trying to hit him with baseball bats and stuff. That's part of the reason I got a behavior problem now." Thirteen-year-old Angie counts her foster homes at five, but their younger sister Tanya thinks she has lived in fewer than that. Sometimes they all stay together with their grandmother. John, Angie and Tanya are but three of their inmate mother's seven children; three others have already been adopted out of the family. Then, a year ago, their baby brother James was born while their mother was once again in prison. The infant was immediately placed in foster care where he has just begun calling his foster mother "Mama." From prison, Denise, James's birth mother, fights for custody of James. "I want a life, I want a family, I've had seven children, haven't raised one of them, so it's time for me to buckle down and raise the one I had, the last one I had, at least." After Denise's upcoming release, James might be returned to her custody -- if she finds housing, a job and stays drug-free. "This is my sixth time in prison. And, I would think after five times, if it was going to help me, it would, " she explains. "It's not going to change me. It makes you harder. It makes you not as caring." She will return once more to society unprepared, impoverished, but optimistic -- though there are no residential treatment programs immediately available to her. Mechelle, James's foster mom, says, "I see myself as his mother. I didn't give birth to him, but I've had him since birth. I just don't wanna think about losing him." The baby's fate is observed through the anguish of his foster mother and the hopeful eyes of his older siblings. When John, Angie and Tanya get evicted from their rented dilapidated flat, their dire circumstances underscore how repeated prison sentences for addicted women magnifies the instability of their children's lives.
- An ultra-realistic procedural drama of a social worker's investigation into the case of a battered infant received critical acclaim.
- It is the turn of Andrew Monroe this time to find his wayward daughter caught up in crime at the station, but Matt Boyden, having gone through the same thing himself at least lends one sympathetic ear.
- 2BR's Talk-back radio host Barbara Bolton, a fiercely independent single mother (by choice, she sees no need for a man in her life), brings her daughter Meredith to see Simon about her headaches.
- While Simon and Brendan fight to reestablish the baby's breathing, Terence works to stop Molly's haemorrhaging and both patients are eventually stabilised.
- His ex-wife Jennifer tells Mark he can't see Rachel until he's got his act together. Reece gets to go home. Al has lost his job.
- In addition to a huge ransom, the kidnappers demand that Meredith, the only one who can identify them, be handed over to them in exchange for Richard's son. Richard learns that Angela was responsible for putting Meredith in his household and vows that she will pay for what she has done to him. Concerned about Vicky's relationship with Dan Fixx, Chase travels to Oklahoma to determine for himself the type of man his daughter is involved with, and is then beaten up by the small town's corrupt chief of police and his henchmen. Lance refuses to declare Melissa mentally incompetent after her breakdown. After selling his winery to Lance, Eric talks Angela into letting him manage the spa. Emma discovers that she is not pregnant with Dwayne's child and now wants to have a baby with Karlotti.
- An emotionally fragile young woman steals another woman's baby, and Kimble (whom she believes to be the baby's father) may be the only one who can help them all.
- Loren seeks trials for several crewmembers after a mishap at sea. Loren is pregnant, and she refuses to name the father. Harm conducts a second investigation, and Mac replaces Loren. Tracy lends a hand; Meredith and Bud help each other.
- Skippy rescues a three-month old baby from drowning in a river.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG6.4 (3.5K)TV EpisodeA planet that was able to cloak itself for thousands of years suddenly reveals itself, with its inhabitants proposing peace. But, after initial negotiations, children of the Enterprise are kidnapped due to the infertility of the inhabitants.
- Henry and Muriel's 25th wedding anniversary is approaching and Muriel is expected to go on a photo shoot in a helicopter on the same date, which worries Henry due to Muriel's pregnancy.
- Kate's unplanned pregnancy is a source of conflict and embarrassment in the family. Buddy's friend Erica wants to lose her virginity and selects Willie as her partner.
- Sue Ellen is unsure who got her pregnant, with J.R. and Peter each fully convinced that he fathered the child. Charlie Wade's paternity is also questioned by Bobby and by Katherine, who finally meets the elusive Count Renaldo Marchetta.
- John Bowlby, a famous attachment theorist, does play therapy with a mother and infant son who cannot sleep through the night. The mother accuses the son, her second child, of wanting to "get away with things" in the therapist's office. (The older child is a well-behaved happy child.) The therapist asks her to consider the fact that the son might be inviting her to play and have fun instead. She realizes she is very angry at her son for the hard pregnancy and difficult birth. She forgives her son and begins to enjoy playing with her son. The son calms down and sleeps through the night. A mother from Jamaica feeds her reluctant 22 month old daughter for hours, just as she was fed for hours by her own mother. When her daughter does not eat the food she is served, the mother sits with her for hours at the table, late into the night feeding, hitting and arguing with her younger daughter. (The older daughter is a well-behaved, happy child.) In play therapy the mother is instructed to let the daughter lead the play. The daughter decides to feed a doll pizza for breakfast. "No!" the mother cries, "Not pizza, for breakfast. Porridge for breakfast." The mother discusses with the therapist her reluctance to let her daughter be in charge of her own intake of food. The feedings are reduced by two thirds. The daughter begins to sleep through the night. The implications of this video call into question the idea that psychological illnesses are caused by genetics or brain damage. The clear indication is that most mental illnesses are caused by problems in the parent-child bond, especially anger and unforgiveness from the parents.
- 2016–TV Episode
- Alice meets a yacht captain who is in love with a lovely heiress. Problem is the lady is about to marry another man. Alice learns the fiance is only getting wed for the woman's money so Alice develops a plan to break them up.
- Stephen and Jimmy-Jerome wonder why the adults on the crew are so creepy, and why the children aren't upset about being kidnapped.
- 1990–TV Episode
- A devastating bus crash impacts heavily on the MRU team. Adam's past affects his treatment of a mentally ill patient who arrives in the ED claiming to have been poisoned.
- Illegal Czech immigrant Eliska Sokel's corpse is found hidden in a sewer, two days after her death. Her also-illegal ex, Teodor Hajek, explains she left him after their son died from a congenital disease. She had worked on the concierge staff of a luxury residence but was fired after Dr. Cameron Talbot's wife questioned the appropriateness of her treating their son Zane to a lollipop. Castle wonders how Beckett will take his dedication of a book starring her alter-ego, and his agent Haas's offer of a contract to write 3 British spy novels. They still solve the case after unearthing an old, tragic secret.
- Oliver Murray leaves his son at New Moon to make his fortune on the Klondike. Perry, Ilse and Emily attempt to find Maida Flynn to return her son to her but are instead tricked by a travelling mystic lady.
- 2019–Podcast EpisodeLorna and her grandson, Uriah, drive to the hospital and await news of Elise's baby. Lily's plan for Elise and Regina to keep the baby goes into effect.
- 2012–Podcast Episode
- 2010– 39mPodcast Episode
- Tess is still upset over the death of the boy and starts drinking. An infant is left home alone and the social worker breaks in. The teen aged father grabs the baby and goes to meet the baby's mother at the train. Henry tries to make Tess the scapegoat for the death of Daniel. A young man finds out about Polly and grieves with Jeff. Charlie comes back to work.
- Sims awakens to the sounds of a break-in and finds a baby downstairs. Sims wants to give him to the authorities, Harriet wants to keep him and Mary McTavish offers to take him; but Dr. Campbell has a hunch about who he really belongs to.
- Infant mortality rates among African Americans remain twice as high as among whites. African American women with graduate degrees still face a greater risk of delivering pre-term, low birth-weight babies than white women who didn't finish high school. In this medical detective story, researchers are circling in on the added burden of racism through the life-course as a long-term risk factor.
- THIS VOYAGE, Star Trek: The Next Generation writer HANNAH LOUISE SHEARER joins guest hosts PETER HOLMSTROM (author, The Center Seat) and LISA KLINK (writer, Star Trek: Voyager) to discuss her first season episode, "When The Bough Breaks" as the children onboard the Enterprise-D are kidnapped by an alien race in an all-new TREKSPERTS BRIEFING ROOM of curated audio commentary for another significant episode of Star Trek.
- 2021–Podcast Episode
- 2019– 1h 6mPodcast Episode
- 2021–Podcast Episode