The adopted son of a Polish Jewish printworkers, his grandfather was a committed communist.
He is the adopted son of postal workers who raised eight children, he says over and over.
As his jury was deliberating, more accusers -- including his own adopted son -- raised allegations of abuse.
Vanorden said her adopted son was engaged to Lena Beckwith, 21, who also was killed when the minivan was hit in rural Cortland County south of Syracuse.
'" She would turn to her adopted son, Aaron, and say, 'No, I just have this plastic one, ' and Aaron would hold his arms out and say, 'Ta-da!'"
It then shifts between Milly (hiding out in their seaside cottage), Colman (the resentful adopted son), Sophie Stone (Joss's hack biographer, who scents a fortune), and Edith (Joss's Scottish mother).
Matt Sandusky, now 33, did not testify for either side, but Jerry Sandusky insists that his adopted son's desertion and potentially damaging testimony kept him from testifying in his own defense.
In 2010, an American woman caused outrage after she sent her adopted son back to Russia alone on a one-way flight, saying the boy, then 7, had violent episodes that made the family fear for its safety.
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Gadhafi's adopted son is also his nephew.
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When in 1676 Robert Cotton, the younger man whom Walton treated as an adopted son, joined his own work to Walton's, creating "Walton and Cotton's Angler, " he brought to the partnership the use of angling with dry flies.
In 2010, an American woman sparked outrage after she sent her adopted son back to Russia alone on a one-way flight, saying the boy, then 7, had violent episodes that made her family fear for its safety.
Madonna adopted a son from Malawi in 2006, and her ties to the nation run deep.
Prosecutors in Texas say they will not charge a couple whose adopted Russian son's death was ruled an accident.
Watson, who with wife Angie adopted a son, Caleb, two weeks ago, also boasts of never having a golf lesson.
Mr. Chadwick, the adopted Chinese son of English educators, started training at 15 years old to be a jockey apprentice at the Hong Kong Jockey Club.
She and her partner adopted their son from Catholic Charities.
She denied that she or her son adopted any extremist ideologies, however.
Koo's son died in an accident in the 1990s and Koo, who also has two daughters, later adopted his brother's son, Koo Gwang-mo, in 2004.
His own story -- an immigrants' son, adopted and then disowned by one of the richest families in Perugia, suffering from fugue states and sleep-walking -- makes him one of the more interesting characters in the case.
At age 16 in 1973, Son--who dropped his family's adopted Japanese name, Yasumoto, in favor of the ancestral Son--arrived in Berkeley, Calif. to study English.
She said the money would go on renovating her home, which she said had a "mouldy cellar, " and hiring a part-time nanny for her newly adopted five-year-old Chinese son, to allow her to work on new installations.
On advice from the obsessed son of a colleague, I adopted the Arsenal always called "the" Arsenal for reasons that elude me as my Premier League team.
"The only thing I did was wrap Caleb in it, " Watson said through tears, referring to the son that he and his wife adopted the month before his Masters win.
While it was common for these skills to be passed down from father to son, many young men were also adopted into the ninja clans.
The couple also has an adopted daughter, Elisa, and Magic has an older son, Andre, from a previous relationship.
Ms. Tsarnaeva, in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, said she often visited many of the same Internet sites as her son, as the two exchanged ideas on religion and adopted more orthodox Islamic practices.
Madonna visited the nation with her children, including son David Banda and daughter Chifundo James, both of whom were adopted from Malawi.
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