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At 70, Woman Finds Out She's White

Verda Byrd says she still identifies as a 'beautiful black woman'

(Newser) - Verda Byrd is, by her own description, a "beautiful black woman" who lived the full "black experience" while growing up in Kansas, per ABC News : She was raised by adoptive black parents, dated black men, and went to black churches and clubs. But in 2013, long after her...

92-Year-Old Adopts 76-Year-Old Daughter

Muriel Clayton raised her cousin Mary Smith after Smith's dad died—now it's official

(Newser) - When Mary Smith was 11, her dad died at the age of 45 of a heart attack. Her mom was receiving help for mental illness, so her older first cousin, Muriel Clayton, who had four young girls of her own, welcomed Smith permanently into her own home after Smith was...

Native American Parents Sue to Let White Pair Adopt Baby

Minn. couple sue over requirement to notify the tribe

(Newser) - A Native American couple is suing Minnesota's department of human services, attorney general, and a commissioner with the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, saying the requirement to tell their tribe about their baby violates their right to due process and equal protection. The state law, imposed in 1997, is...

Wild Coincidences Bring Separated Sisters Together

Lizzie Valverde and Katy Olson tell their story to the 'NYT'

(Newser) - There are simple coincidences, and then there's the story of Lizzie Valverde and Katy Olson. The New York Times describes them as "strangers" who, in their early 30s, found themselves in the same writing class at Columbia University on a January day in 2013. That was the day...

Native Americans Adopted Whites to Make Money

Now one of the Alturas Rancheria tribal members says strategy was 'mistake'

(Newser) - A tiny, casino-owning Native American tribe in Northern California has pursued an unusual strategy to boost revenue: adoption. The Alturas Indian Rancheria in Modoc County has adopted five members—two of whom are non-Indian—in recent years, the Sacramento Bee reports. The new members came with ambitious plans to make...

Florida Orphan Finally Finds His Home

Longtime caseworker is adopting Davion Only

(Newser) - This time, the happy ending looks like a permanent one: A Florida orphan who became an Internet sensation is being adopted by his longtime caseworker, reports ABC News . Davion Only first made a splash in 2013 when, as a 15-year-old, he made an emotional pitch for a family. After an...

Woman on Hunt for Birth Mom Finds Her at Work

La-Sonya Mitchell-Clark used Facebook to make her discovery

(Newser) - When Ohio's health department released birth records last month for those adopted over a period of more than three decades, a spokesman called it a chance for people to "possibly reconnect with some siblings or their birth parents," WYTV reported at the time. For one Youngstown woman,...

Foreign Adoptions in US at Lowest Level Since 1982

Numbers of kids from China, Russia decrease

(Newser) - The number of foreign children adopted by US parents dropped by 9% last year to the lowest level since 1982, according to State Department figures.The department's report for the 2014 fiscal year shows 6,441 adoptions from abroad, down from 7,094 in 2013 and about 74% below...

Teen Mom Pumps Breast Milk for Baby She Gave Up

One shipment Kaleena Pysher sent topped out at 80 pounds

(Newser) - When Alaska teen Kaleena Pysher learned she was pregnant at 18, she knew firsthand what it would take to have a baby so young—her sister had a child at 14—and decided adoption was best. The now-19-year-old wanted to give her child good parents and a good education, something...

Rosario Dawson Now a Mom—to 12-Year-Old

According to Page Six source

(Newser) - Actress Rosario Dawson split with director Danny Boyle last year. She's still single, but no longer a household of one, according to a Page Six exclusive. It talks to a source who says the 35-year-old is now a mom—to a 12-year-old girl. The source says the adoption happened...

Mom: Why I Adopted a Frozen Embryo

Embryos 'deserve an opportunity to grow and live and be loved,' she says

(Newser) - Liz Krainman calls her 4-month-old baby girl a "snowflake," but not because she looks so cute. Little Sammy is actually one of several children in Krainman's embryo adoption group with that nickname. "We sometimes lovingly call our frozen embryos snowflakes," she says. "It fits...

Couple Tries to Un-Adopt Kids Who Threatened to Kill Them

They say they were misled about children's health

(Newser) - A couple in Long Island adopted two children in 2008, hearing from agencies that the Russian-born kids, supposedly siblings, were "healthy and socially well-adjusted." But that was far from the truth, the parents say, and now they want to give up the children, the New York Post reports....

Court: Facebook Wrong Way to Tell Ex He'll Be a Dad

Man in Oklahoma didn't find out until his baby had been adopted

(Newser) - Oklahoma's Supreme Court has ruled that when it comes to informing a man that he is about to become a father, a Facebook post doesn't cut it, legally speaking. In this case, a woman had a three-month fling with a man named Billy McCall in 2011, then realized...

Parents: Adopted Son, 12, Molested Our Other Kids

Seattle parents say social worker hadn't warned them

(Newser) - Foster parents in Seattle are suing the Department of Social and Health Services over an adopted 12-year-old boy who allegedly molested all of their other children, KIRO-TV reports. Trish and Steven, who gave only their first names, have three adopted and four biological children, and one of the latter (an...

'Black Market Babies' Trying to Find Roots With DNA

New tests try to identify biological parents of off-the-books adoptees

(Newser) - About 30 people showed up at a Tennessee motel yesterday to give cheek-swab samples, in a last-ditch attempt to locate long-lost biological relatives. In the late 1950s and '60s, a Georgia clinic run by the late Dr. Thomas Hicks facilitated more than 200 off-the-books adoptions, the AP explains . With...

Twins Reunited After 78 Years

Record-breaking separation adds to nature vs. nurture debate

(Newser) - After nine months together in the womb but a lifetime apart, twins Ann Hunt and Elizabeth Hamel have finally been reunited. The pair—whose reunion after 78 years is a new world record—were born to an unmarried domestic servant in England in 1936 who was going to put both...

30 Years Later, Cop Adopts Murder Scene Baby

Officer Joanne Jaffe carried little Christina Rivera from massacre site

(Newser) - Thirty years ago, Officer Joanne Jaffe was one of the first responders at the Palm Sunday Massacre, in which 10 victims were killed in Brooklyn. Someone handed Jaffe the sole survivor—13-month-old Christina Rivera, whose mother and two siblings were among the victims—and pictures of the pair appeared on...

US Couple Guilty of Girl's Unexplained Death in Qatar

Huangs will appeal 3-year sentence

(Newser) - They haven't been handed death sentences , but the verdict in Matthew and Grace Huang's high-profile trial is not one they're celebrating. The American couple held in Qatar after adopted daughter Gloria's mysterious death in January 2013 have been found guilty and sentenced to three years in...

Long-Lost Siblings Meet, Already Knew Each Other

They'd seen each other for years at Walmart

(Newser) - Buddine Bullinger, 56, has worked at the Walmart in Dickinson, ND, for 25 years—and for many of those years she greeted John Maixner as he came in to shop, never suspecting Maixner was her brother. Bullinger and four siblings of various ages were all given up for adoption at...

Daughter Finds Mother After 71 Years
Daughter Finds Mother
After 71 Years
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Dec 28, 2013 11:36 AM CST

Daughter Finds Mother After 71 Years

Woman, now 90, gave her up for adoption after rape, was told she had died

(Newser) - It's not all that unusual for an adopted child to grow up and seek out her biological mother, but the LA Times has the story of one such reunion that's remarkable on a few fronts—the big one being that this reunion takes place 71 years after the...

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