Child in and out of Care
Includes children whose reunification with the birth family broke down
Grahame, Kenneth
Grahame was orphaned when only a few years old and he and his sisters were raised by their grandmother. Another source says that his mother died when he was five. His alcoholic father s... [more]
Hensley, Albert
Hensley's mother died when he was a baby and he was fostered by his grandmother for five years, until she died. Then he went through a series of foster families for two years, before going ... [more]
McQueen, Steve
Steve McQueen's father abandoned the family in Indiana when he was less than a year old. His mother then gave him into the care of an uncle, a farmer in Missouri, where he lived until he wa... [more]
Monroe, Marilyn
Born Norma Jean Baker to an unmarried woman, Monroe was fostered from babyhood until about the age of seven, because her mother was working and not well enough to care for her as well. Duri... [more]
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island and her mother died when she was two. Her father left her to be raised by very strict grandparents while he moved west and started a new family. ... [more]
Rua Kenana Hepetipa
Rua was born shortly before his father died. He was sent by his mother as a baby to be raised by his father's people. He returned home when he was nine but was soon sent away again and neve... [more]
Ruth, George Herman ("Babe")
Babe Ruth was the eldest of eight children born to a Baltimore bartender and his wife. They had no time for their son, and when he was seven they placed him in St. Mary's Industrial School ... [more]
Smith, Robyn
Smith was born Melody Dawn Miller. Her father deserted her and her mother (who was 17 when she was born), and her mother was declared mentally unstable by the courts, who placed Melody in a... [more]
Williams, Daniel Hale
Williams was born to a mixed-race family in Pennsylvania. His father, a white man, was married to a free Black woman, and was an active abolitionist who died when he was 11. Although som... [more]
Wright, Richard Nathaniel
Wright was born on a Mississippi plantation, where his father was a sharecropper and where his ancestors had been slaves. In 1913 or 1914, Wright's father left the family for another woman.... [more]
