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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
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  • ...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
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  • ...went to the Daily Mirror newspaper with her story, but Middlemiss refused to comment. [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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]]
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  • ...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,
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  • ...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
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  • 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.
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...known citizen of Venice, and it is generally thought that he was her birth father. In any case, he [[adopted]] her, named her his heiress, and had her educat ...for her music but for her position as leader of the salon surrounding her father; a not entirely respectable reputation, and she had four children by unknow
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  • ...en he was a year old he was kidnapped by his nurse and not returned to his mother for three years.) He did not see her again until 1688. [[Category: Parent(s) Left Home, Leaving Child Behind]]
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  • ...Irish mother in Salford, England. She placed him for adoption and returned to Ulster, and he was [[adopted]] as a baby by Andrew and Marita Thomson. He g ...However one of the British gutter press newspapers took it upon themselves to do this in 2003, and published the results without his consent, which great
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  • ...ating experience, especially finding out that it had been common knowledge to everyone else. [[Category: Late or Traumatic Learning of Adoption]]
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  • ...be free to travel with his work as an engineer. She continued to visit her father until he died when she was nine. ...but mentally unstable and who abused her physically. After school she went to a teachers' college, but after a radical religious conversion she entered a
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  • ...py. Aged only 14, he enlisted in the Prussian army in 1792 but in 1793 his mother died, leaving him an orphan at 15. His lack of a proper Prussian devotion to discipline, order and "correctness," and his aimless lifestyle after leavin
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  • Wallace was born to an unmarried actress and fostered by a Billingsgate Fish Market porter and his wife when ...reer 25% of all books sold in Britain were by Wallace, and his total sales to date are over 25,000,000.
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  • Watton was born to Pauline Tilston, a young unmarried hairdresser, in Chester, England. She placed him for adoption when he was t He joined the British army and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Royal Military Police, serving in the
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  • ...began to study part time, gaining his first degree that way. He continued to study, gaining three more degrees, including a Ph.D. in 1976. ...ly, although he was raised quite near to where they lived and his adoptive mother knew their names.
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  • Welch's mother died when he was five and he was raised by his aunt. ...ter winning a talent contest in London the following year, they were asked to join Cliff Richard's backing band, The Drifters, which later became The Sha
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  • ...e was eight and his mother sent him and his four brothers and sisters away to be raised by relatives. He was away for 10 years. ...t very successful as missionaries, and in time transferred their attention to assisting white settlement in the area.
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  • ...n orphaned by the Nazi Holocaust and one of the few hundred young children to survive the death camps. ...rland]], fostered and ultimately [[adopted]] by a Swiss family who refused to discuss his traumatic past with him.
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  • ...rs to be raised by relatives, including Chief Blackfish, who also fostered or [[adopted]] several white captive children. ...ership: that no individual or even tribe could alienate land to the whites or own land individually.
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  • ...white men (1774) before they were born and their mother left them in 1779 to be raised by relatives, including older brothers and sisters (one of whom w ...pan-tribal nation, stretching from the western slopes of the Appalachians to the Pacific coast, in 1808.
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  • ...en. He ran away from home in 1888 to attend school (his father was opposed to white men's education), where he stayed until 1895. [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • ...n in the all-Black and Black-governed town of Eatonville, [[Florida]]. Her father, a carpenter and minister, and his wife had eight children. ...hool to [[adopt]] her. This did not happen, but at 13 she went to be nanny to her brother's children.
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  • .... His father deserted the family shortly after he was born and he was sent to be the [[Tamaiti Whangai|tamaiti whangai]] of his aged great-great uncle, T ...knowledge and [[genealogy]], which he came to love and dedicated his life to recording. After leaving the farm in 1920 he became an interpreter for the
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