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  • ...d and matter of fact. Your tone of voice is important. Parents who grimace or tense up when the topic of [[adoption]] is raised may ...eping information “secret” implies that [[adoption]] is negative, bad, or scary. This section provides strategies to help you communicate effectively
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  • ...ome information may be out of date, and/or contain inaccuracies, omissions or typographical errors. **Was married to the mother on the date of birth of the child or within 300 days before the birth of the child
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  • ...est Virginia. He graduated from high school first in his class but was too poor to go to university full time. Anti-social or Disruptive Behavior, Adhd
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  • ...February, 16 October and 16 and 26 November. Her surname is spelled Bayul or Baiul, according to different romanizations. [[Category: Family Friends or Acquaintances]]
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  • Best was born Jules Guy in Powderly, [[Kentucky]], to a poor coal mining family with six children. When he was three poverty forced the [[Category: Very Poor (Financially) Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • [[Category: Birth or Infancy]] [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]
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  • ...t Virginia]]. He graduated from high school first in his class but was too poor to go to university full time. [[Category: Anti-social or Disruptive Behavior, Adhd]]
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  • Casals was born to poor El Salvadoran immigrant parents in San Francisco. Before she was a year old Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and Adopted People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • ...born sometime between 1906 and 1910, and was orphaned as a baby. She was a foster child in a feckless, poverty-stricken family (she got her first pair of sho She became a very successful hairdresser in [[New York]]. Her fiancé, a millionaire, suggest
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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 tr [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...as without his birth parents from a very early age, probably fostered by a poor family, and spent a good deal of time in [[custody]] even as a young child. [[Category: Poor Educational Opportunities, Self-taught]]
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  • ...o informally fostered a succession of homeless children. When he was seven or eight he discovered that one of the other people living in the house was hi [[Category: Anti-social or Disruptive Behavior, Adhd]]
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  • Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992) [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...d by a Protestant surgeon named Conway, then by the Armstrong family. Both families were well-to-do and both fell on hard times, but when she was 18 she was ad She had long wished to do something to help poor women, and set about founding a religious order, the Order of Mercy, in 182
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  • Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992) [[Category: Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed]]
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  • ...n a farm at Jerusalem Ridge, [[Kentucky]], the last of eight children in a poor, backwoods family. Both his parents were traditional Appalachian musicians ...d a team of dancers and also played music on local radio stations. In 1934 or 35 they were sponsored by a laxative manufacturer to go on tour, but Birch
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  • [[Category: Adoptees/fosterees Who Are or Were Also Birth Parents]] [[Category: Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed]]
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  • [[Category: Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed]] [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • "Birth Legend of Sargon of Akkad," translated by B.R. Foster. In: The Context of Scripture: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical Wor [[Category: Figures Whose Adoption or Fostering Is Fictitious, Disputed or Unconfirmed]]
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  • ...is mother left home, leaving him to be brought up by his uncle and aunt, a poor farming family in [[Maine]]. His uncle died when he was seven. [[Category: Poor Educational Opportunities, Self-taught]]
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  • [[Category: Poor Educational Opportunities, Self-taught]] [[Category: Very Poor (Financially) Adoptive or Foster Families]]
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  • ...he was nine days old. His foster family already had 10 children. They were poor but a loving and happy family. ...nghand, and then would dictate the rest to his secretary; he never revised or corrected anything - that was left to the secretary. In addition, he was a
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  • Juárez was born to a poor Zapotec family in San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca state, and was orphaned when h Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • ...to an aunt and uncle as a [[Tamaiti Whangai|tamaiti whangai]]. They were a poor family, but staunch members of the Ringatu religion founded by Te Kooti Ari ...ecome a farm worker, then inherited farms from both his birth and adoptive families. When his birth mother died he became head of their Te Pahipoto hapu (sub-t
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  • The Yavapai boy Wassaja was captured by the Pima people in an 1871 raid but very soon sold on to a white man, Carlos Gentilé, for $30.00. Gentilé named hi Dever, Maria, and Dever, Aileen. Relative Origins: Famous Foster and [[Adopted]] People. (Portland: National Book Company, 1992)
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  • Her daughter, A'Lelia, was an adoptive mother, to '''Mae Walker Perry''', who was president of her grandmother's c [[Category: Ethnic or Religious Identity Confused or Concealed, Racism]]
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  • ...he [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]] and birth families. Many adoptive families choose to maintain some level of contact with their child’s birth family ...ing Information|identifying information]] such as last names or addresses. Families should learn more about the benefits of [[Open Adoption|open adoption]] by
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