Formal, American/European-Type Fostering
Akabusi, Kriss, Banks, John, Bijani, Laden, Brooks-Randolph, Angie, Burton, Richard, Clare, Monica, Cochran, Jacqueline, Connolly, Brian, Culpepper, Daunte, Danilova, Alexandra Dyonysievna, Divine, David, Edwards, Skye, Emerick, Louis, Fashanu, John, Fashanu, Justinius Sonny, Fever, Fred, Frampton, Phil, Goldie, Grayson, Larry, James, Lennie, Kinder der Landstraße, Langstone, Frank, Lapotaire, Jane, List, Liesbeth, Lopez, Charlotte Anne, Martinson, Harry Edmund, McRobbie, Narelle, Monaghan, Thomas, Monroe, Marilyn, Morcom, Luke Sidney, Mourning, Alonzo, Myers, Billie, Oldfield, Bruce, Pelzer, David J., Poe, Edgar Allan, Quinn, Phil, Roach, Archie, Rowell, Victoria, Salter, Shane, Sissay, Lemn, Smith, Robyn, Wark, Betty, Williams, Jett, Wilson, Flip,
Akabusi, Kriss
Akabusi was born an Igbo prince in Nigeria, but taken to England as a child, where he went into care when his mother returned to Nigeria. He spent time in a children's home and also had mul... [more]
Banks, John
Banks was a New Zealand National Party MP from 1981 to 1999 and has been Minister of Tourism; Sport, Fitness and Leisure; Local Government; and Civil Defence (he resigned his cabinet posts ... [more]
Bijani, Laden
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]
Brooks-Randolph, Angie
Brooks was one of nine children, and her parents were forced by poverty to place her in a foster home where she was brought up by a widowed seamstress. Ambitious to become a lawyer, she ... [more]
Burton, Richard
Burton was born the 12th or youngest of 13 children in a poor mining family in South Wales. His mother died when he was quite young and he was then raised by his sister. Later he was foster... [more]
Clare, Monica
Clare was born in Dareel, Queensland, to an English mother and an Aboriginal shearer, Beatrice Scott and Ron McGowan. Her mother died in childbirth when she was seven years old and she and ... [more]
Cochran, Jacqueline
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 (she got her first pair of shoes when she was eigh... [more]
Connolly, Brian
Connolly was born to an unmarried woman and remained in hospital care until he was two, when he was fostered by the McManus family, who already had three born-to children. His foster brothe... [more]
Culpepper, Daunte
Culpepper was born to an unmarried teenager in jail for armed robbery (she is now a qualified social worker, with five other children, and they have always been in contact, although he has ... [more]
Danilova, Alexandra Dyonysievna
Danilova was born near St. Petersburg and both her parents died when she was three. She and her older sister were then brought up either by relatives, her godmother and foster parents, and ... [more]
