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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]

Smith, Venture

Smith was born in Guinea, West Africa, but captured and sent to Rhode Island as a slave when he was about eight. He bought his own freedom when he was 37 and spent most of the rest of hi... [more]

Soll, Joe

Soll is an adoptee, psychotherapist specializing in abuse- and adoption-related issues, director of the Council for Equal Rights in Adoption and of Adoption Crossroads (an organization for ... [more]

Soseki Natsume

Born to a large family in modern-day Tokyo, Soseki was fostered for the first nine years of his life, before returning to his birth family. At college he studied first Chinese and then Engl... [more]

Spain, 1936-75

During and after the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) the Falangists (the Fascists, under General Franco) practiced child theft. Children of Republicans, their political opponents, were stolen f... [more]

Spalding, Henry Harmon

Spalding was sent away as a baby of 14 months to be fostered. When he grew up he was ordained a Presbyterian minister. He translated St. Matthew's gospel into Nez Perce and worked with the ... [more]

Spencer, Percy LaBaron

Spencer's father died when he was 18 months old and his mother left home, leaving him to be brought up by his uncle and aunt, a poor farming family in Maine. His uncle died when he was seve... [more]

Stands In Timber, John

Stands In Timber was born the son of Stands Different and Buffalo Cow, but his father died in 1887 and his mother in 1892, and he was then raised by his grandparents. First, he and his y... [more]

Stanhope, Albert

Stanhope was a Child Migrant to Australia. Born to an unmarried woman in England, he was placed in an orphanage because she was unable to work and care for him, having no family back-up. ... [more]

Stanley, Henry Morton

Stanley was born John Rowland in Denbigh, North Wales. His family was extremely poor. His father died when he was very young and his mother left him with her father while she went to find w... [more]