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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 ..., keeping information “secret” implies that adoption is negative, bad, or scary. This section provides strategies to help you communicate effectively
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  • **Was married to the mother on the date of birth of the child or within 300 days before the birth of the child ...ther by adoption, an order of parentage, or an acknowledgment of parentage or [[paternity]]
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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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