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  • She has unsuccessfully tried to trace her birth family. Streak, Diana. "Victim or Vixen?" [interview], Fair Lady, 28 May 1997. Also formerly available at: ww
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  • '''''5th or 6th century''''' '''King of the Silures or British folk hero'''
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  • ...eas and usually housed in large children's homes instead of being fostered or adopted. This compares unfavorably with the treatment of the children on t ...tradesmen or sent as farm laborers; girls were raised to be farmers' wives or domestic servants. A large percentage of the children have as adults deep e
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  • ...discovered on the steps of St. John's Church Clerkenwell, (hence his name) or St. Andrew's Church Holborn as a young toddler, barely able to walk. He was [[Category: Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed]]
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  • He was unable to trace his birth family as a teenager and no longer has any interest in doing so. [[Category: Late or Traumatic Learning of Adoption]]
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  • Eaton was born to unknown parents in London and adopted as a baby by a poor family in Rochdale. He left school at 14 and eventually entered the book trade. [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...at a Barnardos home when he was two months old and nothing is known of his family [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...gory: Priest, Religious, Teacher, Coach, Mentor, Patron, Apprentice Master or Owner]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...tted by all sides, and of course, by the obscenity which was the Holocaust or Shoah, in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate not only the entire Jewi ...ldren were taken home by their mothers to be raised; some were [[adopted]] or fostered by German families; others remained in children's homes until afte
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  • ...re separated out and educated to become members of the Ruling Institution, or bureaucrats. ...eenth century the Janissaries had become extremely powerful and could make or depose Sultans at will. Moslems also began to be admitted as Janissaries, a
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  • [[Category: Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed]] [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • [[Category: Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed]] [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...tted by all sides, and of course, by the obscenity which was the Holocaust or Shoah, in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate not only the entire Jewi ...ldren were taken home by their mothers to be raised; some were [[adopted]] or fostered by German families; others remained in children's homes until afte
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  • [[Category: Birth or Infancy]] [[Category: Other or Unknown Reasons for Serial Placement]]
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  • [[Category: Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed]] [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...the Porrajmos), homosexuals, and other groups they believed were dangerous or inferior to the white "Aryan" people, as they called themselves. ...n parents managed to send their children to hide with sympathetic families or in convents and monasteries inside Nazi-occupied countries before they them
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  • ...ganization for assisting the tracing and [[reunification]] of adoptees and birth families and supporting all people affected by adoption). He is a frequent ...the Bessie Bernard operation in Brooklyn, and has been unable to trace his birth mother.
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  • ...of Republicans, their political opponents, were stolen from their parents or taken after their parents were executed for political crimes (see also: ''' ...and Franco's death that the survivors have been able to try to find their birth families.
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  • ...tted by all sides, and of course, by the obscenity which was the Holocaust or [[Shoah]], in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate not only the entire ...ldren were taken home by their mothers to be raised; some were [[adopted]] or fostered by German families; others remained in children's homes until afte
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  • He traced his birth parents but they had already died when he located them. [[Category: Late or Traumatic Learning of Adoption]]
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  • ...to him when he asked point-blank. Not until 1993, when he went to get his birth certificate, did he learn that he was [[adopted]]. ...unsuccessful) attempts to obtain information about his birth name and his birth parents, he has become a leader of the movement to open up [[Adoption Recor
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  • ...possibly exposed in the wild as a form of infanticide/birth control. It is impossible to know, because the recovered children never learn to communicate with peo Almost all examples are either fictional (such as Tarzan and Mowgli) or legendary (such as Afrasiab, King of Turan, in the Shah-nama; King Zahhak o
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  • ...land]] and [[Switzerland]], fostered and ultimately [[adopted]] by a Swiss family who refused to discuss his traumatic past with him. ...memories, a construct based on false memories (recovered memory syndrome), or a conscious and deliberate fraud. The consensus now is that the book is a d
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  • [[Category: Ethnic or Religious Identity Confused or Concealed, Racism]] [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • ...gory: Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering]] [[Category: Customary or Traditional Adoption, Informal and Extra-Legal Care]]
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  • ...purpose; often two tribes would raid each other for [[captives]] for years or centuries. The European and Arab enslavement of Black Africans is undoubted ...optees. The rate was so high that socialization of the new adoptees became impossible and the very fabric of the society was undermined.
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  • ...1825, was the nephew of the great Seminole Chief Osceola. When he was nine or 10 (in 1835) his father died after a drunken brawl in St. Augustine, [[Flor In 1843, after discovering that the rest of his family had been wiped out in the Seminole wars and on the forced march from [[Flor
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  • [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]] ...gory: Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering]]
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  • ...not as a slave in the ordinary sense. He was brought back to Wales and the family estate, his age at the time being variously estimated at eight and 13. ...rated into the local community. He married a local woman and they raised a family. He is remarkable because he was the first Black person known to have lived
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  • ...gory: Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering]] [[Category: Tracing Impossible or Birth Family Extinct]]
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  • "Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African: A Short Biography." [Includes portraits]. Avai ...gory: Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering]]
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  • ...reate his own wife. In the late 1760s he [[adopted]] two unrelated orphans or foundlings, whom he named Sabrina Sidney and Lucretia, then aged 11 and 12. [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • [[Category: Birth or Infancy]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...born into slavery are separated from their families by sale of the parents or children to others. They are grossly mistreated, emotionally abused, and in ...ut, loaned out, bought up, brought back, stored up, mortgaged, won, stolen or seized. So Baby's eight children had six fathers. What she called the nasti
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  • [[Category: Ethnic or Religious Identity Confused or Concealed, Racism]] ...gory: Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering]]
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  • ...n two years she was reading the Bible in English, Latin and Greek; and the family also encouraged her poetry from the age of about 13. ...her while he was in debtors' prison and she died in abject poverty giving birth to their third child, who also died.
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