Brierley and his birth mother, Fatima, hugged tightly through tears.
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She wanted details that only her birth mother could know.
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Unlike her birth mother, Rocky's mother, Thelma, adored the Goddess.
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My birth mother got pregnant when she was in college.
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In it, Mr. Crapser called out for his birth mother.
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I grew up with my birth mother and adoptive stepfather.
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In "Saving April," the teenager is a girl whose birth mother was a neglectful alcoholic; in "The Woman in the Window," the adopted teenager is a boy whose birth mother was a neglectful drug addict.
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These are the DNA strands passed down from the birth mother.
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A few years ago, he reconnected with his birth mother, Caronda.
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GOD AND JETFIRE: Confessions of a Birth Mother, by Amy Seek.
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At least Mr. Crapser has a birth mother waiting for him.
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According to my birth mother, he didn't know about her pregnancy.
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The real secret-keeper, though, is Tamar, Pat's supposedly late birth mother.
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My birth mother, the woman who adopted me, Patricia, and Mother Teresa.
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"It seems like it's unbelievable," Morrell's birth mother, Lena Pierce, told WBNG.
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He didn't flee, but got lost while searching for his birth mother.
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Moments later, the mother of our birth mother was holding her grandson.
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My birth mother was disowned by her parents when she became pregnant.
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She loved looking at the family photos her birth mother had brought.
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Since she had a name for her birth mother, we decided to search.
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It was then that his birth mother, Judy Gilford, reached out to him.
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Six weeks later, in Ho Chi Minh City, Leigh embraced her birth mother.
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If a child wants to find their birth mother, I'm absolutely supportive of that.
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The birth mother chooses you, and you never know what somebody is looking for.
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She never met her birth mother, and hadn't really tried to track her down.
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I now am fairly certain that I know the identity of Joe's birth mother.
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Then, on Thanksgiving Day of 2004, McDaniels met his birth mother for the first time.
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Is the wife of the birth mother afforded the same presumption of parentage as men?
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Coming of age for your Catholic birth mother must have been a very different experience.
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He communicated with his birth mother through an interpreter because he does not speak Korean.
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Seeing her birth mother in person was almost like looking in a mirror, she said.
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The black woman who is my protagonist's birth mother in "Everybody's Son" is very different.
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Ms. Quinlan tracked down her birth mother on her own after taking a DNA test.
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And a lot of Julie's storyline was about a complicated relationship with her birth mother.
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George Hodel wasn't in California the year that Fauna finally reunited with her birth mother, Tamar.
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Ghant told BuzzFeed that the experience has understandably been an emotional rollercoaster for their birth mother.
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While the birth mother had signed away her parental rights, the birth father hadn't, she says.
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Like Jon's birth mother, Lyanna Stark (his father Rhaegar wouldn't be in the same crypt, ha!).
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This month, 20123Kamra announced its first match between a Korean birth mother and an American adoptee.
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Episode 4 closed with the sequence in the abandoned building, where he saw his birth mother.
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I am saddened I did not have this clarity when I spoke with my birth mother.
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Peter Franklin, 51, is an adoptee who reunited with his birth mother and siblings decades ago.
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Still, he was drawn to the cramped apartment where his birth mother, uncles and grandmother lived.
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By 1999 at age 27, Palmer -- then working in Bosnia -- started the search for her birth mother.
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Ashley said she now looks back in awe at the night she met their daughter's birth mother.
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The backstory, plus the recent revelation of Spencer's birth mother, also helps Emily come to a decision.
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The story lines converge as Ivy's hunt for her birth mother leads her to New York City.
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In her late teens, McDormand was offered the chance to meet her birth mother, and she refused.
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Dear Amy: I am adopted and have been in contact with my birth mother for five years.
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There's one key opinion Brierley is still waiting to get -- that of his birth mother, Fatima Bi Munshi.
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Our second adoption opportunity fell through when the birth mother changed her mind two weeks before giving birth.
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They hadn't seen Zeke's birth mother, 25-year-old BreAnn Higgins, since she'd given him their baby boy.
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In late January they were told the birth mother of a newborn girl had chosen them, Alyssa says.
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His adoptive parents, Nanci and Byron Watts, were also thrilled to meet Brad s birth mother and siblings.
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The separation from his foster mother could have been even worse than the separation from his birth mother
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In a flashback, we see Taystee's group home mother tell her that her birth mother has reached out.
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The girl, Connie Moultroup, who is now 69, met her birth mother for the first time this month.
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The last time we see Hollyhock, she is on her way to meet her birth mother in Minneapolis.
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In the finale, she kidnaps and imprisons her and Spencer's birth mother, whom Spencer longs to get know.
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Both the man and his wife had a longstanding, intimate relationship with the birth mother, according to court documents.
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Then, as a young boy, Esau was traveling with his birth mother across the empty landscape that surrounds Shishmaref.
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"I thought, 'I'll never know my birth mother, I'll never have any nieces or nephews,' " Robinson lamented to KHON.
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More importantly, she wants him to save her daughter Pat from whatever happened to her birth mother, Tamar Hodel.
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Ladies, did you know, that you DO NOT have to be the birth mother in order to breast-feed?
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We didn't have to be present, since this was technically a fight between the birth father and birth mother.
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Like his birth mother, Brad Watts was also eager to learn more about the woman who gave him life.
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She names the boy after Tom, who died protecting them, and names the girl after her birth mother, Olympia.
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Morrell began looking for her birth mother almost 50 years ago, but it took until September for a breakthrough.
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Any strain in your relationship with your son is likely to arise from your resentment of his birth mother.
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One of the ads includes the birth mother of one of the children thanking him for protecting the child.
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She can't, but apparently spending a night in the arms of her loving birth mother works wonders for Charlotte.
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From the time of Rachel's birth, mother and daughter were bound together in a kind of folie à deux.
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Her birth mother had a substance abuse problem, and her father was in prison for much of her life.
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About 15 years ago, I made contact with my birth mother, with whom I now have a good relationship.
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"Chelsea made a decision when she turned 18 that she wanted to go to her birth mother," Berger told PEOPLE.
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Never once does Mira utter a word of Japanese or contemplate her heritage, not even when meeting her birth mother.
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Curtis, along with husband Christopher Guest, adopted Annie from her birth mother just after she was born in Dec. 1986.
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My mom is very protective of my birth mother and her feelings even though none of us has ever met.
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After giving birth, mother manatees will stay with their calves throughout their nursing period, which lasts up to two years.
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I will be a native immigrant to my own country, like a foster child returned to an unfamiliar birth mother.
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Since she built her family tree and learned more about her birth mother, she discovered she has some Irish roots.
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Suddenly, the possibility that their foster kids will leave their home and reunite with their birth mother is very real.
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The novel opens in March 2000, with Bridget, Ivy's birth mother, trying to write a letter to her future child.
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Roberts told CNN in a 2012 interview that he'd been adopted as an infant, but tracked down his birth mother.
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So with the help of a lawyer, the Lombardis were largely responsible for finding a birth mother on their own.
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He also raised these two children on his own for a period of time after their birth mother passed away.
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She founded her company after her own birth mother refused to meet with her during a phone conversation in 1994.
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I believe here in Florida you can give the birth mother up to $5000 in expenses without going before a judge.
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Brierley is adopted by an Australian family, grows up, gets hot and uses Google Earth to track down his birth mother.
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The death marked the end of the couple's story, until years later when Steele tracked down his birth mother in 1991.
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And in 2015, when that same birth mother in Des Moines became pregnant again, she promised Watkins the baby was hers.
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I now recognize this reaction as likely the same one I felt as a baby, being left by my birth mother.
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Hastings (Lesley Fera) really think calling Spencer's birth mother "clinically insane" was the best way to tell Spencer she was adopted?
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And there will be up to $3,000 in expenses that the birth mother can claim during pregnancy that we will cover.
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Ms. Davidson used 23andMe, her birth mother took the test with 325Kamra in South Korea, and they were connected by GEDMatch.
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A South Korean documentary on his plight and the lives of other Korean adoptees led to his birth mother coming forward.
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His case got lots of media attention in the U.S. and South Korea, which led his birth mother to come forward.
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Mr. Cruz said he had a brief relationship with Ms. Liff's birth mother in Brooklyn but never learned she was pregnant.
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The parameters of our adoption agreement were solid, albeit tinged with some regret on the part of our son's birth mother.
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They eventually opt for adoption and connect with Erica (Anna Faris), the birth mother of their eventual twins, in Season 10.
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After years of trying to find each other, Leigh Mai, now 303, met her birth mother Nguyen thi Dep on Nov.
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He was the seventh of his mother's 27 children, but only remained with his birth mother for a year and a half.
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The possibilities are quite literally endless — from finding your birth mother after 47 years to discovering that you're related to a president.
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In a journey of self-discovery, Eleven (who was born as Jane) used her powers to track down her birth mother, Terry.
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She was working for an aid group locating and identifying the war dead, all the while looking for her own birth mother.
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It was at a fertility clinic that she met Witt, who helped connect her with the birth mother of her two daughters.
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Ultimately, the teenage girl decided to turn down placement in the Anders' home in case their birth mother came back for them.
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"He filed for an annulment 15 months later citing incest, stating he was married to his birth mother," a court affidavit states.
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Deja's Possible Family Reunion Deja (Lyric Ross) continues to keep in contact with her birth mother after wishing her a happy Thanksgiving.
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It's an odd mom move that after telling Spencer she was her birth mother, she vanished without any follow up questions. 29.
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"It's easy to pull the wool over their eyes," says Riley, who arranged the video reunion between Mata and her birth mother.
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The court majority rejected an Arkansas law that blocked the spouse of the birth mother from being listed on the birth certificate.
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But it wasn't his birth mother, who he says essentially disowned him after he told her in 2015 that he was transgender.
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On her 21st birthday the couple reveal to her that she was adopted, setting her on a search for her birth mother.
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But Mary went a step further, telling her daughter to always remember her birth mother and say a prayer for her each birthday.
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During Wednesday's episode of The Real Housewives of Dallas, Brandi, 41, revealed some surprising news regarding her 22-month-old son's birth mother.
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We've gotten to see a very sweet side of him — probably the side our birth mother saw at the beginning of their relationship.
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She also allegedly told police her birth mother once texted "Happy birthday" to her, but that that was the last communication they'd had.
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As for Jo Karev (Camilla Luddington), she was working through a personal battle after discovering her birth mother was raped by her father.
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BROADLY: Have you been able to determine how much time you physically spent with your birth mother before you and she were separated?
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The child was taken from her birth mother after the blood test results showed the presence of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana.
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The Davises filed paperwork to have Mata's adoption vacated, and in September, the Ugandan government gave parental rights back to her birth mother.
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The most difficult and enduring patient is Frannie, the young cutter, who flies into manic rages every time she visits her birth mother.
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They took her in and provided the kind of upbringing her birth mother — a struggling single parent with no health care — could not.
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When Matthew was a baby, she had offered to help his overwhelmed birth mother, the sister of a friend, take care of him.
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The situation you have described is one in which you have abided by your original agreement and your son's birth mother has not.
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" Had her birth mother raised her, she said, "I'd probably consider myself white, because I would have grown up in that Italian home.
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Prospective parents will also be responsible for finding a birth mother, a process that can involve advertising on websites and in print ads.
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In a sad twist, though, he is working on some sort of contraption to search his memory for his birth mother who abandoned him.
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If I am lucky, it's because I won the family lottery when my drug-addicted birth mother personally selected the parents I have today.
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In addition to eventually finding his birth mother, part of McDaniels' recovery and reclaiming his sense of self was recording a song with McLachlan.
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Among its offerings is up to 16 paid weeks of leave for a birth mother, father, or adoptive/foster parent serving as primary caregiver.
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Constantin's foster mother would even text his birth mother with tips on how he liked to be held and soothed, according to The Times.
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It's impossible to tell how much a four-month-old baby understands, or whether he could comprehend the sudden absence of his birth mother.
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Arika says that after Mobley learned the truth she started looking up stories about the case and allegedly called her birth mother, Shanara Mobley.
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Her birth mother recently told her that, lacking health care and seeking privacy, she gave birth to her at home in the bath tub.
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My husband and I are his lucky and grateful adoptive parents, but our son was born in another country to a Muslim birth mother.
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It also gives the sense it was some sort of fluke that Saroo was able to track his birth mother down, 25 years later.
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Whether or not she can recognize herself as Davíd's lost birth mother, Simón is adamant that she must somehow assume maternal responsibility for him.
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Ms. Harry writes that she reached out to her birth mother when she was an adult, but that the woman declined to meet her.
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My birth mother suffered from drug addiction, and when I was just three years old, my siblings and I were removed from her custody.
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The Lombardis were overjoyed to learn that the birth mother had welcomed a healthy baby girl and wanted them to adopt her right away.
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Mr. Berriman, who was put up for adoption as an infant, learned that his birth mother had been murdered only after his adoptive mother died.
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After being evicted from her home, Isobel must figure out her future, while helping her final renter, Emmy, a wandering musician, locate her birth mother.
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While there, he had a peek at his birth certificate, where he got to see (among other things) his birth mother and birth father's names.
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He has no idea what happened with Rita, so Josh comes right out with it and tells him that Rita, his birth mother, is dead.
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Name in hand, at 10 years old, he hopped a bus to Pennsylvania, met his birth mother, and found out that he was actually Syrian.
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Catholic Children's Aid wrote that my birth parents' relationship was of a "short duration," with them meeting in Europe while my birth mother vacationed abroad.
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The Georgia court had misapplied Georgia law, the Alabama Supreme Court said, nullifying the three adoptions in Alabama and giving the birth mother exclusive custody.
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My parents and I were at the hospital when her birth mother went into labor, so she has been with us for her entire life.
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"The One With The Birth Mother" (Season 10, Episodes 9) Not everyone is fortunate enough to easily get pregnant every time it's convenient for them.
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Ko uses the voices of both the boy and his birth mother to tell a story that unfolds in graceful, realistic fashion and defies expectations.
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The medical expenses of the birth mother are our responsibility during delivery if she doesn't have insurance that covers it, and we also are responsible for things like travel to the birth mother's hospital, hotel stays for as long as the baby remains in the hospital, and any travel we need to do when meeting and (hopefully!) making a match with a birth mother.
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She already feels a bond with Dominique's birth mother, created by the trust she was willing to place in a stranger to care for her baby.
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Mobley told police she tracked down her birth mother soon after learning the truth, and even called her, but hung up soon after it was answered.
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In a PEOPLE exclusive clip of Thursday's episode, Dr. Jo Karev (Camilla Luddington) comes face-to-face with a woman she believes is her birth mother.
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After nearly a half-century of searching, she recently met her 96-year-old birth mother — for the first time since she was born in 1933.
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A few days later when Rebecca walked into the nursery with Crystal Champ, it would be the last time the birth mother would see the newborn.
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Daily Mail TV found a woman claiming to be the birth mother of Natalia Barnett, an orphan at the center of an adoption scandal in Indiana.
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In 217, Biles's birth mother lost custody of her four children, who were placed in foster care and faced the possibility of being scattered by adoption.
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Its foster care story line showcases the character of an adolescent girl and her relationships with her birth mother and her upper-middle-class foster family.
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It doesn't change the situation if, as you suspect, the birth mother would be happy for your son to play a role in the children's lives.
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As for Jo Karev (Camilla Luddington), she was working through a personal battle after discovering she was conceived when birth mother was raped by her father.
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Most recently, Matthew Roberts claimed his birth mother told him that Manson was his father after he was conceived in an orgy in San Francisco in 1967.
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In the teaser, Jon Snow (Kit Harington) grapples with his true parentage as he passes a statue of Lyanna Stark, his birth mother, in the Winterfell catacombs.
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Peter Sloan, who now goes by the name Peter Shatner, says the actor had an affair with his birth mother, Katherine Burt (later Kathy McNeil), in 1956.
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LeShundra Washington, 40, Brown's birth mother, had been searching for Brown for years, but under the name she gave the baby girl at birth: Jazzmen Zerrelle Washington.
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The Alabama Supreme Court sided with the birth mother in refusing to recognize the other woman as a parent and declaring the adoption invalid under Georgia law.
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The egg was one of two born to its birth mother, so the couple were also relieving her of the pressure of raising two chicks at once.
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The agreement stipulated that we would send pictures and updates once a year and be open to answering any letters his birth mother sent to the agency.
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By this time, she no longer asked about her birth mother; she was preoccupied with "The Hunger Games," her friends and convincing me to get a dog.
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Adoption transforms a crisis pregnancy into a loving act that allows the birth mother to get on with her life while giving another person a good life.
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And Brenda and her husband welcomed a son into their home after his birth mother concluded with center staff that adoption was the birth mother's preferred option.
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It was a joy to know her birth mother and painful to live with the limitations Sarah set for the daughter she long ago had to give up.
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While it is clear that Lemonis' birth mother was from Syria, it is unclear how he ended up at the orphanage or whether his birth parents were married.
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The Wellses reached out to Reunite's Riley, who said Violah's birth mother was also lied to by local traffickers using the same false promise of education in America.
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In it, her birth mother described speaking to her in the womb and falling in love with her smile during their three short days together after her birth.
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Through additional research we have discovered the names of his grandmother (the woman my half brother had the affair with) and his birth mother (my half brother's daughter).
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They turned off their adoption phone and disabled their adoption email, website and Instagram account in April, even after connecting with an Arizona-based birth mother in February.
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She also said Mata's birth mother knew that her daughter was being adopted and taken to America, despite the Ugandan court's finding that Mata's mother had been lied to.
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The last image he has of his birth mother was through the back of a police car when he and his sister were taken away when they were young.
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The couple finally decided to pursue adoption through an agency — until the Arizona birth mother reached out to their lawyer while they were away at a wedding in Miami.
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Ms. Slaton finally got to tell her birth mother (who'd gotten pregnant at 16) that she appreciated the good life she was able to have with her adoptive family.
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While Leckie may have moved to Ozark County hoping for a better life with her birth mother, court records show how their relationship deteriorated, particularly in the last two months.
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All he has to do, she says, is tell her more about his past, including what he knows about his birth mother, who died when he was a young boy.
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" She adds, "Not everyone can say that, but I count myself lucky to have a birth mother who loved me enough to know she wasn't ready to be a mom.
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It is heartbreaking to consider the immense weight of shame and guilt my birth mother may continue to carry for fear (real or imagined) of being ostracized by her family.
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Kavanaugh's captivity started when Barbara, her birth mother, demanded custody of her again after agreeing to a private adoption with Bill and Sabrina Kavanaugh years before, according to ABC News.
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Over the years that followed, Helps did some sleuthing, scouring birth records and other documents, even travelling to the township outside Montreal where she believed her birth mother was from.
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I think I can now tell Joe everything I know, so he can perhaps learn more about his birth mother (and receive possibly valuable medical history) through her other children.
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The chick is being raised by two female penguins Rocky and Marama, who were given the egg to relieve the penguin's birth mother of the pressure of raising two chicks.
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I want to believe that my birth mother held me, told me she loved me, and said goodbye, but I will never know unless I get the opportunity to meet her.
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In a PEOPLE exclusive clip of next Monday's Red Table Talk on Facebook Watch, the host, 48, spoke to her Woo costar Tommy Davidson about how he met his birth mother.
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The birth mother, it appears, is resentful that you didn't agree to open the adoption when she asked you to, and has sought the relationship denied her by going around you.
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The movie chronicles the true story of Saroo Brierley, a man who searches for the birth mother and family he was separated from when he was a young boy living in India.
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CHA Fertility, in Los Angeles, has been accused of implanting the wrong embryos, which led to the birth mother having to give up twins who were genetically related to two other couples.
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In January, HBO released an atmospheric teaser depicting Jon Snow (Kit Harington) grappling with his true parentage as he passes a statue of Lyanna Stark, his birth mother, in the Winterfell catacombs.
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Last month, their journey culminated in a cross-country trip for the family, resulting in their oldest son, Zeke, not only meeting his birth mother, but also the doctor who delivered him.
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When he found his adoption papers, according to family lore, he pestered the nuns at the Dallas orphanage where he had lived as an infant for the name of his birth mother.
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These facts made it very clear to me why my birth mother surrendered me for adoption and later filed a disclosure veto blocking me from her identity and my surname at birth.
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The network also released an atmospheric teaser depicting Jon Snow (Kit Harington) grappling with his true parentage as he passes a statue of Lyanna Stark, his birth mother, in the Winterfell catacombs.
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Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman claiming to be Natalia's birth mother, has told Daily Mail TV that she was forced to give up Natalia 16 years ago, when the girl was an infant.
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Zachary, or A.L.M. as he is called in legal papers, has a Navajo birth mother, a Cherokee birth father and adoptive parents, Jennifer and Chad Brackeen, neither of whom is Native American.
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We fulfilled our obligations annually and even agreed to therapeutic meetings that his birth mother requested with adoption specialists because she wanted to loosen the arrangements and spend time with our son.
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Today, Saroo visits his birth mother as often as he can—he still doesn't speak Hindi, and she doesn't speak English, but they have a translator who just lives around the corner.
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By the end of the episode, he's rambling to Kristen about the veil that "separates us from madness" and having visions while driving of the woman who is apparently Ramon's birth mother.
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Tucker was diagnosed with a form of cerebral palsy at birth and was placed for adoption by her birth mother, Deborah Johnson, who was not able to raise her due to homelessness.
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But — and this is the Hollywood part — "Instant Family" is also predictable (when a character says "the birth mother isn't a factor," you know that's not gonna pan out) and reflexively anodyne.
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In January, the company released a teaser that showed Jon Snow (Kit Harington) grappling with his true parentage as he passes a statue of Lyanna Stark, his birth mother, in the Winterfell catacombs.
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Liltz, who Glasgow said had adopted Courtney after her birth mother and adoptive family had given up on the girl, said Courtney was unable to understand that her "Momma" would be coming back.
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Yes, a new mom is bound to be a sleepier, more forgetful, slightly crankier — and, if she's a birth mother, a sore and waddling and possibly pee-sneezing — version of her former self.
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On a bus on her way to boarding school, Gayatri recalls her life and how she was adopted by Sawant after her birth mother was taken away in an ambulance, never coming back.
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"Chance has brought new life and fulfillment in our house and made us feel even more complete, and I can't thank his birth mother enough for that," she wrote in A Sick Life.
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Last month, the network released an atmospheric teaser depicting Jon Snow (Kit Harington) grappling with his true parentage as he passes a statue of Lyanna Stark, his birth mother, in the Winterfell catacombs.
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Because Greene had been formally put up for adoption, she had already found and been in contact with her birth mother and another birth sister who had also been put up for adoption.
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The placement fee, which is essentially the entire payment the agency receives for all our training, their work with the birth mother, and their support of us along the way, is around $19,000.
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Zachary was the seventh child to be removed by authorities from Jackie, his birth mother, now 242, who, according to court testimony, grew up on the Navajo reservation and later moved to Texas.
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It would take Mr. Monti-Wohlpart two years and several thousand dollars in private investigators' fees in the late 22014s to find his birth mother and father, and learn more about his history.
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Still, she sounds proud when she calls herself "white trash" like her birth mother, and she has spent much of her career playing women who, in one way or another, resemble that description.
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Ms. Quinlan's birth mother took her to an adoption agency called the Rotunda Girls' Aid Society in Dublin in 1966, one of a several adoption agencies where other illegal registrations have been documented.
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The longest stretch Mariah has spent with her birth mother are the two days after she was born, which came a few months into her mother's five-year sentence on a robbery conviction.
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When I did finally return to my village and found my birth mother in the same home from which I disappeared all those years ago, the feeling of hugging her again was utterly indescribable.
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Greene, who was given up for adoption on the day she was born in 1948, tried to send letters to her birth mother through her adoption agency, but the woman did not want contact.
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This means that the husband of a birth mother is presumed to be the legal parent of any child born during the marriage, even in cases in which the woman conceives through artificial insemination.
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"We will not be allowed to participate in her court hearing at all," she says, adding that she hopes the birth mother can get legal assistance so she's at least represented at the hearing.
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"As you can imagine, her birth mother does not have the resources to pay for legal counsel and finding a lawyer that can operate in tribal court is not an easy feat," she says.
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The rest of the episode focuses on Nora's cross-country jettisons, first to Emmence, Kentucky, where she meets up with Lily, who now lives there with her birth mother, Christine, and her new baby.
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Scamell-Katz, like Faye's date in "Transit," was adopted as a baby by a modest family, and when he was still a child his birth mother wrote to his parents asking for a photo.
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It was the first chance the two women had to look their birth mother in the eyes and get the answer they'd been wanting their whole lives: Why did it all happen this way?
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Then, in the instant Grace took her first breath of life, I became her mom, after a nearly interminable two-year roller coaster of waiting and hoping to be matched with a birth mother.
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The trauma of being removed from her birth mother and being separated from her son as part of Australia's so-called stolen generation of Indigenous Australian children has rippled through decades of her life.
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One birth mother had even sewn her baby an outfit of patterned cloth from which she cut a patch — a precious bit of proof to be preserved, perhaps, until the day they were reunited.
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A judge just signed off on Nipsey's immediate family members becoming legal guardians to Nipsey's 10-year-old daughter, Emani ... this as opposed to her birth mother, Tanisha, who the family had called unfit.
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In at least 126 cases, the authorities said, babies born to unmarried mothers were adopted and their adoptive parents' names were written on their birth certificates, instead of the name of the birth mother.
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" Days after I interviewed Ms. Slaton, author of "Reunited: An Investigative Genealogist Unlocks Some of Life's Greatest Family Mysteries," she sent the following email: "My birth mother showed up at my front door today.
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So just hours later at the hospital, when the birth mother made it clear she couldn't care for her daughter, Marc was the first to raise his hand to take her in as his own.
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Add a culturally charged adoption scandal — one that pits the infant's Chinese-immigrant birth mother against a wealthy white couple desperate for children of their own — and Shaker Heights may never be the same again.
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While information regarding Lemonis' birth father remained scarce, the documents held a significant number of details about his birth mother — including an old phone number, her place of work, and more surprisingly, her Syrian background.
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Last season, Jo Karev (Camilla Luddington) — who was working through a personal battle after discovering she was conceived when her birth mother was raped by her father — asked husband Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) for help.
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For me, the goal is to create an environment that supports every parent on the Humanyze team, because every parent — not just the birth mother — needs time to adjust and help support their growing family.
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In the two-part series finale, which aired in May 2004, Monica and Chandler adopted a twin boy and girl, Jack and Erica, named after Monica's father and the children's birth mother (played by Anna Faris).
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Poor Duc, meanwhile, begins the episode with a colitis flare-up and ends it with a fistfight, using some downtime in between to overexercise and to feel haunted by memories of his birth mother, the prostitute.
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In this episode, Phoebe -- who, it is increasingly revealed throughout the series, comes from a very non-traditional family -- feels hurt and betrayed that her birth mother never tracked her down when she needed her most.
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Even if he'd been born earlier, I'd never have hesitated; I fell in love with him as soon as I matched with his birth mother, understanding, too, that she had every right to change her mind.
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Born in 1979 in The Kristiansand Zoo in southern Norway, Julius, who turns 40 in the next few weeks, was inexplicably rejected by his birth mother and, immediately afterward, beaten nearly to death by another chimp.
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As TMZ reported ... Rosie called the cops claiming Chelsea was off her meds and had run away with a dude who'd been convicted on drug charges -- before taking off again to be with her birth mother.
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However, in classic Owen fashion, he crashed back into her life in Germany just in time to get her pregnant and then leave to go raise his adopted baby and the child's teenaged birth mother with Amelia.
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The former Patriots safety went on SportsTalk 790 in Houston -- and not only blasted Kaepernick for his National Anthem protest, but says he doesn't REALLY understand the plight of black Americans because his birth mother is white.
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Dana Mason Womer shared her adoption story with the Love What Matters Facebook page on Thursday, saying that she's thankful to the birth mother she's never met for making sure she ended up in a loving home.
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Not wanting to go against her birth mother's wishes, Kellner suggested she and her sisters send their birth mother a bouquet on Mother's Day simply thanking her for bringing them into the world and giving them up.
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It's a big bill, but a lot of excellent professionals are working to make this happen, keeping the process as smooth and as positive as it can be for the birth mother, the child, and for us.
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That said, my husband and I often acknowledge that our beautiful family, which is so full of love and joy and laughter, was formed because a woman lost her children and her children lost their birth mother.
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Feminism offers Greer an outlet for her ambitions, and moreover, it satisfies her desire to be close to Faith and her enormous presence, to find a new mother after her birth mother proved herself less than satisfactory.
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Though the social worker was able to pass Mr. Rousteing's file to another office, which searched for and found his birth mother — and learned that she was still in France — it could not legally reveal her name.
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Ramirez portrayed Mariana Adams-Foster, a Latina teen who had been adopted at a young age by Lena Adams (Sherri Saum) and Stef Foster (Teri Polo) after being neglected by a birth mother (Alexandra Barreto) with drug problems.
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In fact, three years after Connolly adopted her first daughter, the birth mother reached out to let her and her husband know she was pregnant again, and to see whether they'd be interested in adopting that child, too.
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Then, through a combination of research and luck, I learned that my birth mother had a daughter five years after I was born, meaning I had a biological sister who was also in Florida, just three hours away.
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It took 75 years, but a Pensacola, Florida, woman received the ultimate early Christmas gift this year when her husband helped her to track down her birth mother and learned that she was still alive — at age 91.
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Ivy loves the two women who have raised her, but now that she's turned 16, the same age her birth mother was when she had her, she aches to know more about the woman who gave her up.
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Leigh Mai and her birth mother may have spent the rest of their lives wondering about each other - except for the mother's persistence, the daughter's decision to try a DNA website, and help from a Vietnamese Good Samaritan.
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Read these stories next: This Little Girl's Adoption Hearing Is A Real-Life Fairy Tale "My Entire Life Is A Love Letter I've Been Writing To My Birth Mother" These Celebrities' Quotes About Their Adopted Children Are SO Sweet
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But Graham told BuzzFeed News he has no ill feelings toward their mother nor his entire birth family, and that he completely understands why his birth mother decided it was ultimately best for him to be placed for adoption.
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Shannon West: Although I have copies of my birth records, and my birth mother's interview with Catholic Children's Aid, there is no mention of whether my birth mother saw me or held me at any point after my birth.
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I know from historical records about my maternal birth family that my birth mother was raised in a very strict Catholic home and that her grandparents were awarded a special papal medal for distinguished service to the Catholic Church.
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Aria is the reason that Spencer will have to live with the knowledge that her dad tried to kill her birth mother and had a part in the death of her birth aunt (and mother of her best friend).
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During the episode, viewers watch flashbacks of Jo (Camilla Luddington) meeting her birth mother (Michelle Forbes) and learning that her biological mom abandoned her at a fire station when she was a baby because she was the result of a rape.
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My [adoptive] mother and I have varying viewpoints as we were raised during different eras and have emotional biases that lead us in different ways, but we both feel a great sense of gratitude to my birth mother who surrendered me.
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After V.L. secured an order from an Alabama court giving her visitation rights every other weekend in 2014, the birth mother upped the stakes, saying that the Georgia court was not authorised to award the adoption in the first place.
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An 103-year-old Taystee meets her birth mother, Mia, in a public park, and Mia explains that she sent her to the system because she was only 15 when she got pregnant and had no parents, home, or money.
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In the finale, BoJack does two uncharacteristically kind things: He agrees to save Princess Carolyn's show by starring in "Philbert" (which dominates the trailer for Season 5), and he goes to great lengths to help Hollyhock contact her birth mother.
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It did not address how government funded leave impacts same-sex couples, though Chzhen said she believes gay fathers face the greatest resistance securing government assistance, as they might have to prove their needs are that of a birth mother.
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So now Jo has a big decision to make in regards to pursuing that and it leading to her birth mother, a decision that is kind of made for her because Casey (Alex Blue Davis) takes it upon himself to find her mom.
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Even more astonishing, Brierley's journey would take him full circle: More than two decades after he was torn from his Indian family, Brierley would reunite with his birth mother following a painstaking search for a hometown he barely remembered, using Google Earth.
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The court said Brown could not rely on the Indian Child Welfare Act for relief because he did not have legal or physical custody at the time of adoption proceedings, which were initiated by the non-Native American birth mother without his knowledge.
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A Ukrainian woman claiming to be the birth mother of an orphan at the center of an adoption scandal in Indiana says her daughter is definitely a child, despite her adoptive parents claiming she is a mentally disturbed adult who terrorized their family.
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Fleeing Vietnam at age 12, he was adopted by an American family and raised on the East Coast of the US; in a story worth telling on its own, he was finally able to reunite with his birth mother 20 years later.
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Read these stories next: Queer People In This State Now Have Another Obstacle To Starting A Family Doc McStuffins Featured An Interracial Lesbian Couple And The Internet Loved It What It's Like To Be A Birth Mother With A 4-Year-Old In Open Adoption
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The show jumps ahead a month in the present-day timeline, to Kevin recovering in rehab after his drunken bender and his two siblings reeling from their respective experiences of loss: Randall losing foster child Deja to her birth mother and Kate having a miscarriage.
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"It's stressful to wake up every day knowing that your child is out there and you have no way to reach her or talk to her," Mobley's birth mother, Shanara Mobley, told the Florida Times-Union on the 10th anniversary of her daughter's disappearance.
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In October 1995, Morgan Hill was tied up in a trash bag and left to die in a back alley Hoffman Estates, Illinois, dumpster by her birth mother – but a male construction worker walking by heard the baby and ran for help, saving her life.
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And now, the father of five — who was a special guest at Tuesday's State of the Union alongside his wife Rebecca and newborn baby, Hope — tells the news outlet that Hope's birth mother Crystal Champ and her partner Tom Key are approximately 40 days sober.
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Read more: Trump says if asylum seekers don't like conditions in detention centers, 'just tell them not to come'By that point, Constantin had spent 5 months with his foster mother, and just 4 months with his birth mother — more than half of his young life.
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Abetted by an eccentric and possibly fraudulent radio psychic played by Tituss Burgess, Mason wrangles Nick into a mini road-trip around Los Angeles — here a magical place where good nonfiction book sales translate into a studio-exec lifestyle — to find the kid's birth mother.
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While his adoptive parents have since died, McDaniels made peace with their secret before their death, and he says he's still "very close" with his birth mother, Berncenia – and his home life with Zuri and D'Son in New Jersey is just like any other suburban family's.
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Looking back, I suppose this is weird for a few reasons, the most obvious being that my birth mother herself had been the victim of a violent murder when I was four, which is how I came to be sitting with my stepmother watching these shows.
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In middle school, I spent a lot of time trying to explain to my white classmates that even though I look black, I am actually biracial — my birth mother is white and my birth father is black — and so I wasn't really as black as they thought.
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As they narrate the story of J.'s lifelong — quite literally — search for her birth mother, the performers move around and strike simple poses, stretching a single arm out to the side, lying on the ground, or occasionally grouping and running back and forth, in fits of giggles.
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Daily Mail reporters Will Stewart, Svetlana Skarbo, and Ben Ashford found a woman claiming to be Natalia's birth mother in Ukraine, who told the site that her daughter is a child, and that she was forced to put her up for adoption because of the girl's physical disabilities.
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They found that Annie's birth mother, Marie Siamat, was buried in December 1875, two days after giving birth to Annie, and that her father (variously recorded as Chief Matsqui, George Kot kro itmentwh, George Roelkwemeldon, George Tekwomclko, George Matsqui and so on) remarried a woman named Madeline Jobe.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 45%Synopsis: In the riveting drama "Losing Isaiah," adoptive parents Margeret (Jessica Lange) and Charles Lewin (David Strathairn) try to keep custody of their son Isaiah as his birth mother Khaila Richards (Berry) steps up and tries to find a place in her son's new life.
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After a disastrous dinner party with the Keeleys in which Armand and Albert's best efforts continue to go south in domino-like fashion, Val's birth mother Katherine (Christine Baranski), whom Val has never met, mistakenly shows up to play the part of Armand's wife, and the whole scheme crumbles into dust.
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In The Fosters, Mariana was always a passionate, intelligent, and bubbly force, grappling in her adolescence with her relationship to her Latina identity, and resentment toward her birth mother for the latter's shortcomings in raising her and her twin brother Jesus (Noah Centineo, who will be making an appearance on Good Trouble).
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A hug from the victim's mother, Dawn King (she and her husband had adopted Larry as a toddler; his birth mother was a drug addict who brutally abused and neglected her children and died shortly before Larry's murder), represents, at least to Corbett, her desire to fleetingly recreate her child in him.
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Another book well timed to the political moment is Celeste Ng's second novel, "Little Fires Everywhere" (reviewed on Page 9 by Eleanor Henderson), which hits the hardcover fiction list at No. 7 and centers on a lawsuit over an interracial adoption in Shaker Heights, Ohio, after the birth mother changes her mind.
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At a Magic Mike Live-set bachelorette party, of all places, the happily married couple clashed nastily over lingering concern for the well-being of Deja (Lyric Ross), the guarded foster child who bid farewell to Beth (Susan Kelechi Watson) and Randall (Sterling K. Brown) to return to her birth mother, Shauna (Joy Brunson).
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Though she thought she was Cree, an announcement of this fact on Team Indigenous' Facebook group spurred her sister to inform her they are in fact from the Ojibwa tribe, something her sister had discovered from their birth mother years ago, but had forgotten to tell her as heritage was not something they usually discussed.
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On the flip side, many found of the idea of a 21-year-old celebrity spawn being portrayed as the birth mother of two kids to be too far-fetched; Jezebel even took it as far as imagining Hadid as the "new mommy" to the children in the photographs, as told from the perspective of the baby girl.
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This includes, for example, parental leave policies that provide parity in leave regardless of whether the person taking leave is a birth mother or father and regardless of whether the child is a natural born, adopted, or foster child, or modification of leave policies to distinguish between "primary caregivers" and "secondary caregivers" rather than between mothers and fathers.
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Deming (renamed Daniel by his adoptive [white] parents) carries this abandonment with him, and with it the resentment of losing his identity, the guilt of wanting to find his birth mother despite his adoptive parents' good intentions, and the overwhelming anger — at his mother's boyfriend for letting him go when she left, at his mother for leaving, and at the system that took her away.
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Read more: Parents who are accused of abandoning an 8-year-old Ukrainian girl they adopted say she was actually a 22-year-old mentally disturbed adultThe woman claiming to be Natalia's birth mother says Natalia is 16 years oldThe woman, Anna Volodymyrivna Gava, told Daily Mail TV that she was forced to give up Natalia 16 years ago, when the girl was an infant.
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It's telling that the Erwins, who are so intensely calculating about their aspirations (Jon Erwin has described international success as a "global Trojan horse for the Gospel") started their film careers with an anti-abortion drama of their own — 22016's October Baby, about an undergrad who learns that she was born after an unsuccessful abortion attempt, and goes on a road trip to track down and confront her birth mother — but have headed into less acrimonious territory as they're attempted to go wider with their work.
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