Always in Contact or Knew Identities

See also: When Placed: Adolescence, Adopted as an Adult, Honorific Adoptions, and mosted children placed with Relatives or Family Friends.

Adler-Collins, Je Kan, Agbabi, Patience, Apess, William, Baca, Jimmy Santiago, Bálint, Lea, Beley, Ennis, Bijani, Laden & Laleh, Braimoh, Dilly, Brodkey, Harold, Brown, Mick, Bustamante, William Alexander, Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur, Culpepper, Daunte, d'Alembert, Jean le Rond, Dalai Lamas, Dante Alighieri, Gaveston, Piers, Head, Bessie, Hensley, Albert, India (Princely States), Iwasaki, Mineko (under Geisha), Jehoash, Kindertransport, Lee, George Patrick, List, Liesbeth, Lopez, Charlotte Anne, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mahuta, Robert Te Kotahitanga a Koroki, Marcus Aurelius (under Roman Empire), Mary the Virgin, McKenzie, Richard B., McRobbie, Narelle, Mici Plwm, Morrissey, Neil, Moses, Myers, Billie, Nana Saheb (under India - Princely States: 6), Poutapu, Wiremu Te Ranga, Ratana, Tahupotiki Wiremu, Samuel, Stanley, Henry Morton, Tamaiti Whangai, Te Waharoa, Trokosi, Whitbread, Fatima,

Adler-Collins, Je Kan

Adler-Collins was the child of a military family who was taken into care at the age of three when his mother shot his father during a domestic dispute. He was abused in care for years, but ... [more]

Agbabi, Patience

Agbabi was born in London to Nigerian parents but fostered from birth by a white family, while maintaining frequent contact with her birth family. She was brought up in Sussex and North Wal... [more]

Apess, William

Apess's parents were itinerant basket-makers and he lived as a young child mostly with his grandparents, who were very cruel to him. When his grandmother broke his arm he was rescued by an ... [more]

Baca, Jimmy Santiago

When their parents divorced and abandoned them, Baca, aged two, and his siblings were sent to live with grandparents. By the time he was five his mother had been murdered by her second husb... [more]

Bálint, Lea

Balint spent part of World War II living under an assumed name in a Polish convent in Brwinow, near Warsaw. Her parents placed her there when she was five and she emerged at the end of the ... [more]

Beley, Ennis

Beley was born the fourth child of an unmarried drug addict, Patricia Smith, in Los Angeles. From a few days old he was fostered by a 60-year-old single man, Howard Glen, who raised him as ... [more]

Bijani, Laden & Laleh

Laden and Laleh Bijani were born joined at the head, to a poor farming family in Shiraz, Iran. The family had 11 children and were unable to care for them. They remained in hospital for som... [more]

Braimoh, Dilly

Braimoh was born to a white Jewish mother and a Nigerian father. He never knew his mother, had only slight contact with his father, and was raised in a children's home in Surrey. He present... [more]

Brodkey, Harold

Brodkey was born Aaron Weintraub. His mother died when he was two years old and he was adopted by his father's cousin's family, but his new parents also soon died. He was sexually abused by... [more]

Brown, Mick

Brown's birth mother died of TB when he was a baby of seven months and he was informally fostered in Auckland by a white woman and her daughter, in a loving family. He knew his elderly birt... [more]