Child Abandoned or Rejected by Birth Parent(s)
Apess, William, Kitt, Eartha, Linkletter, Art, de Porres, Martin, Martinson, Harry Edmund, Nelson, Willie, Ruth, George Herman ("Babe"), Truffaut, François, Whitbread, Fatima, White, Donald Edwin, Kean, Edmund, Haynes, Lemuel, Baca, Jimmy Santiago, Bartholomew, Freddie, Capote, Truman, Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur, Cornwell, Patricia, Daniels, Faith, Erichthonius, Frampton, Phil, Genet, Jean, Wiles, Terry, Foundlings & Feral Children, To Avoid Prophecy Fulfillment, Mother Married, but not to Father, Sent for Adoption/Fostering When Parent Began New Relationship,
Kean, Edmund
Kean was the son of a poverty-stricken actress, Ann Carey, who more or less abandoned him on the streets, and (probably) an architect's clerk, Edmund Kean, who committed suicide when he was... [more]
Haynes, Lemuel
Haynes was the illegitimate son of an African father and a middle-class white woman, born in Hartford, Connecticut. His parents abandoned him and he was indentured (a limited and temporary ... [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]
Bartholomew, Freddie
Bartholomew was born in Dublin but abandoned by his parents to the care of an aunt, Millicent Mary Bartholomew. In 1930 he began his film career as a child star with Fascination, and... [more]
Capote, Truman
At the age of six Capote's parents abandoned him to the care of four elderly, unmarried maternal cousins, three sisters and a brother, living together. He was a high-school dropout, apprent... [more]
Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur
Chanel was illegitimate, one of probably six children, although her parents married in 1885. She later surrounded her early life in romantic inventions, but the facts seem to be that her fa... [more]
Cornwell, Patricia
Cornwell was born Patricia Daniels to a married couple. When she was five or seven (sources differ) her father abandoned the family for another woman. Her mother moved with the three childr... [more]
Daniels, Faith
Daniels was conceived as a result of a rape and her mother asked that she be adopted. She graduated from Bethany College. She joined CBS News as one of the youngest ever news anchors; in... [more]
Erichthonius
Erichthonius was the son of the god Hephestus and possibly Atthis, but fostered by the goddess Athena, and raised in a chest[!] by the daughter(s) of Cecrops. He became king of Athens and i... [more]
Frampton, Phil
Frampton was the son of an unmarried teacher and a Nigerian engineer. At three months he was placed in a Barnardos Home, where he was undervalued, abused, and very unhappy. His mother harbo... [more]
