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  • Aristotle was the son of Nicomachus, physician to King Amyntas II. His parents died when he was still a very young boy and he was brought up by a [[guardi [[Category: Adoptees/fosterees Who Are/were Also Adopters or Foster Parents]]
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  • Poe's actor parents died before he was three years old (his father had disappeared before he wa [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Lennon's parents, Alfred (who was orphaned age nine and raised in an orphanage) and Julia Lennon, separated when he wa
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  • In addition to these U.S. requirements for [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]], [[China]] also has the following requirements: [[China]] does not require that prospective [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]] reside in [[China]] for a specified period prior to completing an [[adopt
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  • ...tody]] has been transferred to the prospective [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]]. ...ound check to be performed (if the prospective [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]] are resident in [[Djibouti]]).
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  • ...e eligible for [[international]] [[adoption]] if the child is abandoned or orphaned and a family court determines that the [[adoption]] is in the best interest ...Salvadoran [[adoption]] process. Prospective [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]] should not assume that the legal [[relinquishment]] of [[Parental Rights|
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  • ...Adoptions [[International]], Inc. Prospective [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]] are advised to fully [[research]] any [[Adoption Agency|adoption agency]] If both the United States and [[El Salvador]] determine that you are eligible to [[
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  • ...eece]] also has the following requirements for [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]]: ...]], no restriction applies as to the place of residence of the prospective parents.
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  • ...y out-of-order adoptions, and that prospective [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]] will need to redo such adoptions in accordance with Mexican law. The "How
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  • ...efore, it will not be possible for prospective [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]] to file an application to [[adopt]] a Nepali child until a U.S. ASP appli Prospective [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]] should also be aware that, on August 6, 2010, the U. S. Department of Sta
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  • ...an. According to Pakistan's laws, prospective [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]] who are non-Muslim may not be appointed guardians of Muslim children, and ...e [[adopted]] in another country. Prospective [[Adoptive Parents|adoptive parents]] should refer to our information sheet on [http://adoption.state.gov/adopt
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  • ...exceptionally difficult to fulfill the legal requirements for adoption of both the United States and the child's country of origin. It can be very diffic ==Age of Adopting Parents==
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  • ...tain [[Parental Rights|parental rights]]. With an Adoption Order the birth parents are required to relinquish their rights. ...nship is also vulnerable to [[revocation]] by the courts if the biological parents or other relatives subsequently petition the courts for a change of guardia
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  • ...er of Maria Cole, wife of the American singer '''Nat King Cole'''. She was orphaned when five or six years old and adopted by the Coles. She graduated from Caz According to several Internet lists of famous adoptees and adoptive parents '''Nat King Cole''' was himself an adoptee. His entry in the Dictionary of
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  • He was orphaned as a baby and [[adopted]]. [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • ...the minor’s adoption without personally appearing before a court if both parents do all of the following: ==Criminal Background Checks for Prospective Foster and Adoptive Parents==
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  • Riles was born poor and Black in Louisiana. He was orphaned at an early age, but was fostered by family friends. He worked his way thro Orphaned (Both Parents)/
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  • ...ge: Institution that houses children who are orphaned, abandoned, or whose parents are unable to care for them. Orphanages are rarely used in the United State
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  • [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Alda (her stage name) was born Fanny Jane Davis in [[New Zealand]]. Her parents divorced when she was 15 months old, and her mother, a professional singer, [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • When their parents divorced and abandoned them, Baca, aged two, and his siblings were sent to [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Bach's family was already known on both sides as a musical dynasty (The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]] [[Category: Parents Separated or Divorced]]
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  • Ballinger was orphaned as a child and left school at 14. He got a job as an assistant in the Cardi [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Bartram, born to a Quaker family in [[Pennsylvania]], was orphaned when he was 13. He taught himself botany, medicine and surgery while workin [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]] [[Category: Uncles and Aunts, Parents' Uncles and Aunts]]
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  • Brainerd was orphaned in 1732. From 1743 on he was a missionary to the Algonquian people of [[New [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Burke was born in New York and his mother died in childbirth. He was orphaned at the age of four and became a ward of the Children's Aid Society, which s [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • ...ranco was born illegitimate in Lisbon, and raised by relatives after being orphaned as a very young child. [[Category: Birth Parents]]
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  • Marta Skavronskaya was born a peasant in what is now [[Latvia]], orphaned when three years old and fostered by a Lutheran pastor named Glück. In 170 [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Cochran was born sometime between 1906 and 1910, and was orphaned as a baby. She was a foster child in a feckless, poverty-stricken family (s [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Cohn was born Itsak Leib Jaszovics in Berezna, [[Hungary]] and orphaned when he was seven. I have been unable to discover who cared for him after t [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Commager was orphaned as a child and raised by his mother's father in Toledo and Chicago. ...ege. He wrote and edited dozens of books and hundreds of articles, writing both for the ordinary reader and the academic in the fields of American history
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  • [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]] [[Category: Uncles and Aunts, Parents' Uncles and Aunts]]
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  • ...brought up either by relatives, her godmother, or [[Foster Parents|foster parents]], and Alexandra was then separately [[adopted]] by a wealthy St. Petersbur [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Dante was from a noble family, orphaned as a boy and educated by the Dominicans. (According to the Encarta Encyclop [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Douglas was born in Shannon, Ireland, orphaned as a young girl and then raised in a convent in Dublin. When she was 20 she [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Francis was orphaned as a child (his mother died in 1739 and his father in 1740), raised in Swan [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Gay was raised by his uncle after his parents died in 1694 and 1695. His career was erratic - some of his work was very p [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • One gives his birthdate as 19 December, that he was abandoned by his parents and spent much of his youth in juvenile detention. When he was 10 a false c ...cond gives his birthdate as 19 October, the son of a Paris prostitute, and orphaned when he was seven months old. He spent the next years as a ward of the stat
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  • Graham was adopted by his aunt and uncle when he was five, after his birth parents died. His sister was adopted by their grandmother. The family were well-to- [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Grahame was orphaned when only a few years old and he and his sisters were raised by their grand [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Hale was orphaned by the age of five and fostered by Anthony Kingscote. He had no interest in [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Hobsbawm's British and German-Jewish parents died when he was 12 and 14 years old, in central Europe, and he was then ra [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]] [[Category: Uncles and Aunts, Parents' Uncles and Aunts]]
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  • ...by 1817. He was taken in by neighbors, the Wheeler family, who became his parents until 1823. [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • St. Isidore of Seville was from a noble family of Cartagena, but was orphaned as a child and educated by his elder brother, St. Leander, in a monastery. [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • ..., raised three other nephews, and also raised a Creek [[orphan]] boy whose parents had been killed in a war directed by Jackson himself in 1814. [[Category: Adoptees/fosterees Who Are/were Also Adopters or Foster Parents]]
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  • Jackson's parents were poor. His father and sister died of typhoid fever in 1826. His mother [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Jenkins' birth parents both died when he was young in Liverpool (father in 1887 and mother in 1888) and [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Jones was orphaned as a young child and brought up by his grandparents, but his grandmother al [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Juliana was orphaned as a child and brought up in a convent, where she began to have visions. In [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • She was orphaned at an early age and was fostered or adopted by a family with nine other chi [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • ...hose ages ranged from a few months to 17 years, had to leave without their parents. ...ety. Many never saw their homelands or their parents again; about 80% were orphaned by the Holocaust.
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  • Lennon's parents, Alfred (who was orphaned age nine and raised in an [[orphanage]]) and Julia Lennon, separated when h [[Category: Uncles and Aunts, Parents' Uncles and Aunts]]
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  • Lloyd's parents died when he was nine and he was then raised by relatives. [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Maugham was orphaned at the age of 10 and raised by an uncle. He trained as a doctor but was wea [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • ...childless and wealthy. They, too, were Protestants, but McAuley converted both of them to Catholicism. When Callahan died in 1822 shortly after his wife, [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • McCarthy was born in Seattle and orphaned when she was six. She was raised by relatives who abused her, before being [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • ...d his mother and grandparents emigrated to the USA soon afterwards. He was orphaned by a yellow fever epidemic in [[South Carolina]] when he was four and place [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • ...ntucky]], the last of eight children in a poor, backwoods family. Both his parents were traditional Appalachian musicians (father step-dancer; mother instrume [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Morley was orphaned at the age of 11 and sent to a naval training ship. [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • ...ada]]. He and his brother and sister were orphaned in 1873 when both their parents died within three weeks during a typhoid epidemic. The children were then r
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  • * Paid daycare for working parents ...ave been severed through the court [[system]] or relinquished by the birth parents. In addition to [[adopt]]-only homes, Youthville also offers families the o
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  • Pàscoli was born one of four children in San Mauro di Romagna and orphaned as a child. His father was murdered in 1867 and his mother died the next ye [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Ponsonby was the orphaned daughter of an upper class family of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy. Her m [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • ...was born Katherine Lester in 1911 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was orphaned aged nine and [[adopted]] by the American film director, Cecil B. DeMille a [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Seymour is a playwright and author, born in Perth, [[Australia]] and orphaned at 9 years old, having lost his father in a wharf accident. He then lived w [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • ...on camps and murdered. Other orphans were inmates of the death camps whose parents were murdered but who themselves somehow survived until liberation. ...r der Landstraße and other groups of children and individuals effectively orphaned by war, the short-sightenedness, stupidity or evil of their fellows, the ch
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  • [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Templer was born to a poor family in Exeter. He was orphaned at the age of six and placed in St. John's Hospital, a school for destitute [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Thomas was a Barnardo boy for three years after he was orphaned aged 12, but he was never [[adopted]]. (His father, a merchant seaman, was [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]] [[Category: Uncles and Aunts, Parents' Uncles and Aunts]]
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  • Under the [[system]], children from orphanages or children of indigent parents were auctioned off by the local communal authorities. They were generally a [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • ...son of a poor blacksmith and his wife, Wilhelm and Maria Lipp. His parents both died in 1796 of typhus and the baby Joseph was [[adopted]] by his mother's [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • ...she was 10, and being Jewish, was forced to stay there during the War. Her parents were killed by the Nazis and at 16 she emigrated to Palestine, where she be [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • ...his is in fact his real name) claims to be one of the many Jewish children orphaned by the Nazi Holocaust and one of the few hundred young children to survive ...[[adopted]] in 1957) by a wealthy and childless gentile couple in Zürich, both of whom died in 1986.
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  • Williams was orphaned as a young boy and raised by an aunt. He was a gardener, then worked for a [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]] [[Category: Uncles and Aunts, Parents' Uncles and Aunts]]
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  • [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]] [[Category: Uncles and Aunts, Parents' Uncles and Aunts]]
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  • [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]] [[Category: Uncles and Aunts, Parents' Uncles and Aunts]]
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  • ...ter of a rabbi from Podolia (then in [[Poland]], now in [[Ukraine]]) whose parents were murdered in a pogrom in 1648. ...that the millennium would begin that year, and under threat of death, they both converted to Islam (she took the name Fatma Kadin), but even then some of t
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  • [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Brainerd was orphaned in 1732. From 1743 on he was a missionary to the Algonquian people of [[New [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • Nanbaree was orphaned by the smallpox epidemic at Port Jackson in 1789, during which a large numb [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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  • ...son of a poor blacksmith and his wife, Wilhelm and Maria Lipp. His parents both died in 1796 of typhus and the baby Joseph was [[adopted]] by his mother's [[Category: Orphaned (Both Parents)]]
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