"Life Unexpected"

Appropriately named, the CW show "Life Unexpected" gives a fictional look at how foster-care adoption can impact children and their families.  The show centers around a sixteen year old girl named Lux, who is put up for adoption at birth by her teenage mother.  Lux is never adopted, however, and enters the foster care system.  At sixteen she reunites with her birth parents and the difficult adjustment, for both parties, begins.




 Although the show is fictional, and somewhat cheesy at times, I feel it does a fairly good job at showing how difficult the adjustment between child and parent can be, both before and after adoption.  If you are in such a position or may be in the future it may be worth it to check it out (purely for entertainment purposes, of course).