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Overlaying or overlying is the act of accidentally smothering a child to death by rolling over them in sleep. The London coroner Athelstan Braxton Hicks noted [ when? ] that "during the last ten months no less than 500 cases had occurred in which children had been suffocated while in bed with their parents, in London alone."
Jackson was born in Los Angeles, California, to O'Shea Jackson Sr., better known as Ice Cube, and Kimberly Woodruff. Jackson was raised in the San Fernando Valley, and is the oldest of four children. He has two younger brothers, Darrell and Shareef, and a younger sister, Kareema. [2]
While the exact definition of orphan and foundlings varies, one legal definition is a child bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents". [1] According to the United Nations, the definition of an orphan is anyone that loses one parent, either through death or abandonment.
Fairbanks was born on November 14, 1915, in Florida's Everglades.Her father was African American while her mother had a Seminole mother and a father of English descent. [1] [2] [3] In a 1999 interview, she said, "my mother took in everybody – every kid off the street – and gave them a place to stay and something to eat.
Yelchin was born on March 11, 1989, in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. [1] [2] His parents, Irina Korina and Viktor Yelchin, were pair figure skaters who were stars of the Leningrad Ice Ballet for 15 years. [3] [4] He was Jewish, and his family was subjected to religious and political oppression in the Soviet Union.
Alistair Te Ariki Campbell ONZM (25 June 1925 – 16 August 2009) was a poet, playwright, and novelist. Born in the Cook Islands, Campbell was the son of a Cook Island Māori mother and a Pākehā father, who both died when he was young, leading to him growing up in a New Zealand orphanage.
Christopher Rice was born on March 11, 1978. His parents were novelist Anne Rice and poet Stan Rice; [5] his aunt, Alice Borchardt, was a noted writer of fantasy and historical fiction. Rice had an older sister, Michele, who died from leukemia in 1972 when she was five years old.
In "The Ice-Maiden", written towards the end of his career, Hans Christian Andersen tells the tale of Rudy, a boy who lost both his parents and goes to live with his uncle. [3] The reader is first introduced to Rudy as he sells toy houses made by his grandfather. Rudy grows up to become a skilled mountain climber and huntsman.