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Brian Moore and Adoption
Biography
Moore has been capped 63 times for England - more than any other player, and has been captain. He is also a successful London solicitor.
His birth mother was an unmarried teacher and his birth father a dentist. He was adopted as a baby. His adoptive family has two born-to children and four who were adopted.
He has always known he was adopted and in 1994 he traced and met his birth mother and brother.
References
Moore, Brian. Brian Moore: The Autobiography. 3rd edition. (London: Corgi, 1996)
Categories:
- Adoption Celebrities
- Adopted Persons
- Adoptive Parents
- European
- UK/Great Britain
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- Law
- Sports
- Formal, American/European-Type Adoption
- Birth or Infancy
- Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope
- Others ("Strangers")
- Adoptive/Foster Family Included Birth Child(ren)
- Unmarried Mother
- Adoptee/Fosteree Traced Family