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Single Parent, The

• 1976 ----- color ----- 43 min ----- 16mm
• Using cinema verite the film explores a single parent family as they live their daily lives. Colleen has been divorced for two years and has two daughters and a son, ages eleven, nine and six. She has a full-time job and lives in a small house in a suburban area in California. Shows the whole spectrum of their relationships: quiet times and noisy times, fights, scoldings, laughter and tears, and islands of closeness and warmth. Presents her struggle as a single woman with three children to reenter society. The dilemma of the single parent is best shown when, looking through a book on wild animals with her son, Colleen says softly, "There are very few animals that mate for life.''
• Topics: (Family Life, Psychology: Social, Women Studies)

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