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  • ...er to her own mother to raise. She grew up in the slums, and was desperate to escape into film acting. She attended the drama academy there, but her care ...in all, and was one of the few European female stars of the 1950s and 60s to be famous as a straight actress, not primarily a sex symbol. Her last major
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  • ...was nine, when he was shipped, without his mother's knowledge or consent, to [[Australia]] as one of the [[Child Migrants]]. He spent the rest of his ch He was apprenticed to a tool-maker and eventually owned his own tool-sharpening company.
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  • ...start in a supportive, nurturing environment. Most of the children went on to university and successful adult lives. [[Category: Parental Illness (Mental or Physical), Addiction]]
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  • ...432px-Steve_McQueen_1959.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''McQueen in ''Wanted: Dead or Alive'', 1959'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...t after he became famous, and left it $200,000 in his will.) He joined his mother in [[New York]], but the [[reunion]] was not successful and he briefly work
    3 KB (405 words) - 03:56, 5 March 2018
  • ...some local prejudice against the "children from the home," but it was hard to maintain normal sibling relationships in a home with 40 children. Their father lived in the same village and they saw him every week and the family has al
    1 KB (210 words) - 20:59, 28 May 2014
  • ...went to the Daily Mirror newspaper with her story, but Middlemiss refused to comment. [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
    1 KB (139 words) - 17:10, 2 June 2014
  • ...ater he was sent to live on a farm because of problems between him and his mother. He owned the Detroit Tigers baseball team from 1984 to 1992.
    2 KB (260 words) - 04:14, 5 March 2018
  • ...h her mother, but did not know who she was. Then she went to live with her mother, who soon became mentally ill and was hospitalized, whereupon Monroe was ad ...s and an [[orphanage]] until she married for the first time at 16 in order to get out of the care [[system]] which had so seriously failed her. In one of
    2 KB (349 words) - 19:18, 3 March 2018
  • ...ce Edward Island and her mother died when she was two. Her father left her to be raised by very strict grandparents while he moved west and started a new ...ved to join her father and step-mother, but it broke down, due to the step-mother's cruelty. Her early years and love of PEI shaped her literary life: her mo
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  • ...er]] a dentist. He was adopted as a baby. His adoptive family has two born-to children and four who were adopted. ...nown he was adopted and in 1994 he traced and met his [[Birth Mother|birth mother]] and brother.
    1 KB (155 words) - 18:55, 15 May 2014
  • ...sed by his father and a housekeeper until his father's death, when he went to the [[orphanage]]. He was fostered in 1860 and adopted when he was 17 by [[ [[Category: Unmarried Mother, Single Parent (Mother or Father) Unable to Cope]]
    2 KB (276 words) - 03:55, 24 February 2018
  • ...Hepetipa. She stayed there until 1947, when poor health forced her to move to Auckland. She became deeply attached to and involved in the Maungpohatu community and the surrounding Tuhoe tribe,
    2 KB (262 words) - 16:01, 27 May 2014
  • ...t make the transition to adult acting. She was the second child of a young unmarried birthmother who relinquished her for adoption as a baby. She was [[adopted] ...lso for forging a Valium prescription, and her drug problem eventually led to suicide by an overdose in 1999.
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  • ...d to Queen Mary's Hospital, Carsharlton, then transferred six months later to St. Lawrence's Hospital, where he remained for the rest of his life. During ...ith severe [[Cerebral Palsy|cerebral palsy]], and was the only person able to understand Deacon, because of his severe speech impairment. The third membe
    3 KB (475 words) - 19:53, 13 May 2014
  • Rousseau's mother died a few days after he was born (in [[Switzerland]]) and he was then rais ..., and then gave him to the [[custody]] of his aunt and uncle, who sent him to boarding school.
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  • ...later fourth child was also [[adopted]] by "strangers." Rowson's adoptive mother died when he was 10. ...blings, his religion and politics are poles apart, but they are still glad to have found each other.
    2 KB (268 words) - 20:44, 28 May 2014
  • ...s to be raised by an aunt and William to be fostered or [[adopted]] by his father's prosperous friend, Thomas Ewing, who named him after Chief Tecumseh. ...suffered from feelings of rejection, depression and alienation, which led to him being accused by some of insanity.
    3 KB (369 words) - 04:33, 5 March 2018
  • ...r adoptive family. She may also have later spent time in a children's home or "women's residence." She became a jockey in 1969 and in 1973 became the first woman to win a major race in the USA (riding North Sea in the Paumonok Handicap at A
    2 KB (272 words) - 04:47, 4 March 2018
  • ...ather died when he was 18 months old and his mother left home, leaving him to be brought up by his uncle and aunt, a poor farming family in [[Maine]]. Hi ...error. He joined the Navy and learned telegraphy and after discharge went to work for the Wireless Specialty Apparatus Company in Boston. He had already
    2 KB (325 words) - 23:59, 3 March 2018
  • ...y saw less and less of him, but married a well-to-do man who wanted Albert to be part of their family. ...hipped him to [[Australia]], without her knowledge or consent and contrary to her specific written instructions when she placed him in care. He was then
    1 KB (215 words) - 20:17, 14 May 2014

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