Relative Origins: Famous Foster and Adopted People FROM THE PUBLISHER
Each year roughly 150,000 children are adopted in the United States. There are approximately 2 million adopted children under the age of 18. Although about most are adopted by relatives, and most work out well, many children still harbor fears or concerns about being different or even abandoned.
Anxiety is normal, but to help adopted children, and their parents, put aside those fears and go on to lead the most productive lives possible, the authors compiled this book of more than a hundred famous adopted individuals. From champion athletes, authors, and actors, to scientists and salesmen, teachers and preachers, Relative Origins provides examples of adopted children who went on to lead happy and successful lives.
For most readers it will serve to show that adopted children are no different than the rest of us; for adopted children themselves the book provides examples and role models of people who conquered their fears, and that if they have confidence in themselves there is nothing they cannot accomplish.
Some famous adopted people were:
Edward Albee Sir Alexander Bustamante George
Washington Carver Jacqueline Cochran William Lloyd Garrison Evonne
Goolagong Alexander Hamilton Scott Hamilton John Lennon Hugh Leonard
Gregory Louganis Lue Gim Gong Catherine McCauley James Albert Michener
Carlos Montezuma Moses Jim Palmer Edgar Allan Poe Eleanor Roosevelt Sir
Henry Morton Stanley R. David Thomas Maria von Trapp Edgar Wallace Phillis
Wheatley Daniel Hale Williams George Hamilton Gordon Aberdeen Jean Le Rond
d'Alembert Josephine Antoine Aristotle Ingrid Bergman John Green Brady
Angie Elizabeth Brooks Rosie Casals Catherine I Nicolas SebastienRoche
Chamfort Jean Baptiste Charbonneau Edward Day Collins Countﾽe Porter
Cullen
Dalai Lama Alexandra Danilova Peter Duchin Peter Francisco Sir Matthew
Hale John Hancock Deborah Ann Harry "Blondie" Singer Joseph Haydn Lemuel
Haynes Herbert Hoover Langston Hughes Stonewall Jackson Steven Paul Jobs
Frederick Mckinley Jones Benito Juá:rez Edmund Kean Rudyard Kipling John
Mercer Langston Robert Laurent Malcolm X Nelson Mandela Harry Martinson
Stan Mikita Marilyn Monroe Anthony Newley Gabriel Pascal Pierre Esprit
Radisson Harold Robbins John Baptist Rossi Jean Jacques Rousseau William
Tecumseh Sherman Vishwanath Pratap Singh Robyn Smith Dame Kiri (Janette) Te
Kanawa Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Leo Tolstoy Francois Truffaut Maxime
Weygand Flip Wilson Louisa May Alcott Mildred Ames Frank Baum Anne
Bernays Rose Blue David Budbill Frances Hodgson Burnett Betsy Cromer
Byars
Helen Fern Daringer Charles Dickens Judith Guest Nan Hayden Roberta
Hughey
Louis L'Amour Rutgers van der Loeff George Eliot Lucy Maud Montgomery
Thomas Meehan Eleanor Porter Jim Razzi (adapter) Ovida Sebestyen Roberta
Silman Mark Twain Jean Webster T. H. White
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