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A Family Affair (1950) | Slate

A Family Affair

Part of BFI collection "Your Children and You." A simple film stating the need for more foster parents. Gives glimpses of the tragedy which comes to some children, how they are helped by the Boarding-Out Officer and placed in a "short-stay" Home until foster parents can be found.

Released: 1950

Direction and writing

Margaret ThomsonDirector

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