Storks — Family Discussion Guide
A guided conversation resource to help families explore the themes of Storks through a biblical lens.
Key Takeaways
Family and loving responsibility are shown as more important than status or profit.
Lonely and overlooked people are treated as worthy of care and inclusion.
The film leans on a folklore version of where babies come from rather than treating life and family as gifts from God.
A child can be spoken of as a business problem to solve, which conflicts with the biblical view that people bear God’s image and should not be valued by usefulness alone.
Discussion Questions
How could you tell Junior and Tulip both wanted to belong? What can we do when someone around us seems left out?
Why was it wrong to treat Tulip like a problem to remove? How does God want us to value people?
What does the movie get right about children and family time? What would you add from a Christian view?
If someone feels like they do not fit in, where can they find real worth and hope?
Guidance Notes
Storks is a bright, fast family comedy with affectionate themes about belonging, family, and care for children. Most concerns come from animated peril, mild insults, and a worldview built around the stork-baby myth, along with a corporate message that treats people as problems until love and responsibility break through.
The film warmly affirms that children are gifts, family life matters, and career success without love feels empty. It also shows the pain of exclusion through Junior and Tulip, and it criticizes a profit-first mindset that treats people as disposable. At the same time, the story uses the familiar stork-delivery myth and a few jokes around where babies come from rather than grounding family in God’s design. Christian parents may want to discuss how every child is made by God with purpose, and how our deepest belonging is not earned by performance but received in love through Jesus Christ.
Animated peril
Mild insults
Scripture References
Family Discussion Guide — Storks (2016)
Use this guide after watching Storks together to explore its themes through a biblical lens.
Key Takeaways
- Family and loving responsibility are shown as more important than status or profit.
- Lonely and overlooked people are treated as worthy of care and inclusion.
- The film leans on a folklore version of where babies come from rather than treating life and family as gifts from God.
- A child can be spoken of as a business problem to solve, which conflicts with the biblical view that people bear God’s image and should not be valued by usefulness alone.
Discussion Questions
- How could you tell Junior and Tulip both wanted to belong? What can we do when someone around us seems left out?
- Why was it wrong to treat Tulip like a problem to remove? How does God want us to value people?
- What does the movie get right about children and family time? What would you add from a Christian view?
- If someone feels like they do not fit in, where can they find real worth and hope?
Guidance Notes
- Storks is a bright, fast family comedy with affectionate themes about belonging, family, and care for children. Most concerns come from animated peril, mild insults, and a worldview built around the stork-baby myth, along with a corporate message that treats people as problems until love and responsibility break through.
- The film warmly affirms that children are gifts, family life matters, and career success without love feels empty. It also shows the pain of exclusion through Junior and Tulip, and it criticizes a profit-first mindset that treats people as disposable. At the same time, the story uses the familiar stork-delivery myth and a few jokes around where babies come from rather than grounding family in God’s design. Christian parents may want to discuss how every child is made by God with purpose, and how our deepest belonging is not earned by performance but received in love through Jesus Christ.
- Animated peril
- Mild insults
Scripture to Explore Together
- Romans 12:15-16
- Galatians 6:2
- James 2:1-4
- Genesis 1:27
- Micah 6:8
- Philippians 2:3-4
- Psalm 127:3
- Deuteronomy 6:6-7