Advertisements

Search results

  • She has unsuccessfully tried to trace her birth family. Streak, Diana. "Victim or Vixen?" [interview], Fair Lady, 28 May 1997. Also formerly available at: [h
    2 KB (257 words) - 17:32, 28 May 2014
  • '''''5th or 6th century''''' '''King of the Silures or British folk hero'''
    3 KB (396 words) - 18:22, 13 May 2014
  • ...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
    4 KB (556 words) - 16:08, 19 May 2014
  • ...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]]
    2 KB (291 words) - 17:55, 28 May 2014
  • 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]]
    2 KB (306 words) - 20:32, 21 May 2014
  • 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]]
    1 KB (143 words) - 17:04, 2 June 2014
  • ...at a Barnardos home when he was two months old and nothing is known of his family [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
    1 KB (177 words) - 18:42, 15 May 2014
  • ...gory: Priest, Religious, Teacher, Coach, Mentor, Patron, Apprentice Master or Owner]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
    3 KB (358 words) - 17:08, 2 June 2014
  • ...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
    8 KB (1,211 words) - 20:16, 13 May 2014
  • ...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
    3 KB (382 words) - 17:32, 28 May 2014
  • [[Category: Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed]] [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
    1 KB (164 words) - 18:19, 13 May 2014
  • [[Category: Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed]] [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
    2 KB (299 words) - 16:09, 27 May 2014
  • ...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
    9 KB (1,251 words) - 21:00, 13 May 2014
  • [[Category: Birth or Infancy]] [[Category: Other or Unknown Reasons for Serial Placement]]
    1 KB (207 words) - 16:24, 22 May 2014
  • [[Category: Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed]] [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
    2 KB (260 words) - 16:39, 14 May 2014
  • ...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
    5 KB (646 words) - 16:51, 14 May 2014
  • ...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.
    2 KB (271 words) - 17:49, 28 May 2014
  • ...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.
    2 KB (336 words) - 16:51, 14 May 2014
  • ...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
    8 KB (1,210 words) - 16:13, 15 May 2014
  • He traced his birth parents but they had already died when he located them. [[Category: Late or Traumatic Learning of Adoption]]
    3 KB (355 words) - 20:16, 2 June 2014
  • ...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
    1 KB (175 words) - 20:26, 21 May 2014
  • ...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
    4 KB (676 words) - 17:33, 14 May 2014
  • ...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
    4 KB (576 words) - 18:47, 15 May 2014
  • [[Category: Ethnic or Religious Identity Confused or Concealed, Racism]] [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
    2 KB (297 words) - 16:16, 15 May 2014
  • ...gory: Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering]] [[Category: Customary or Traditional Adoption, Informal and Extra-Legal Care]]
    1 KB (168 words) - 16:08, 27 May 2014
  • ...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.
    6 KB (902 words) - 02:42, 18 May 2014
  • ...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
    2 KB (266 words) - 17:53, 28 May 2014
  • [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]] ...gory: Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering]]
    1 KB (177 words) - 20:32, 28 May 2014
  • ...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
    2 KB (301 words) - 18:16, 28 May 2014
  • ...gory: Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering]] [[Category: Tracing Impossible or Birth Family Extinct]]
    2 KB (282 words) - 16:56, 2 June 2014
  • "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]]
    3 KB (356 words) - 16:52, 2 June 2014
  • ...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)]]
    4 KB (574 words) - 19:20, 16 June 2014
  • [[Category: Birth or Infancy]] [[Category: Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families]]
    2 KB (321 words) - 16:00, 27 May 2014
  • ...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
    6 KB (879 words) - 16:46, 17 June 2014
  • [[Category: Ethnic or Religious Identity Confused or Concealed, Racism]] ...gory: Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering]]
    2 KB (281 words) - 20:50, 2 June 2014
  • ...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.
    3 KB (466 words) - 17:16, 2 June 2014

View (previous 50 | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)