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Barbara Walters--as everyone with a television set know--retired the other day with a great deal of fanfare on the tube acknowledging her role as someone who pioneered women in broadcasting. I watched The View wondering if there would be a mention of her adopted daughter because Walters rarely if ever mentioned her.
While the media is rightfully pouring ink and airtime out over the death of trailblazer Barbara Walters at 93, I'm reading about her and looking for somewhat different references than the general public: her relationship to adoption. Walters adopted a daughter, Jacqueline, in 1968, two years after I gave up my daughter for adoption.
I watched with horror as Barbara Walters ripped into Ms. Alford. Of course we all feel badly for Caroline Kennedy. She has had to bear an enormous amount of pain. In fact I took my 11 year old daughter to meet her at a book signing, so that she would draw courage from Ms. Kennedy's life story and learn more about the Kennedy's role in US history.
Barbara Walter's adopted daughter, Jackie Danforth, discussed her difficulties in growing up in an interview with Jane Pauly. "I never felt like I fit into her [Walters'] world," she said. Mia Farrow's boyfriend Woody Allen, 56, had an affair with Farrow's 21-year-old adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn.
I remember seeing a story on television about Barbara Walters' adopted daughter and her mother, and they showed the girl's, ahem, real mother. Both were kinda hippie types who preferred living in the country and both wore long jangling earrings with jeans, something I can't imagine Walters has in her jewelry box unless for a big night.
Rosie has a messy personal life. Besides Chelsea, she adopted two boys, Parker and Blake, before her marriage to Kelli Carpenter O'Donnell in 2004. She and Kelli had a daughter born to Kelli through artificial insemination. They divorced in 2009 and Rosie married Michelle Rounds in 2012. They adopted a daughter, Dakota.
While the media is rightfully pouring ink and airtime out over the death of trailblazer Barbara Walters at 93, I'm reading about her and looking for somewhat different references than the general public: her relationship to adoption. Walters adopted a daughter, Jacqueline, in 1968, two years after I gave up my daughter for adoption.
"Lorraine Dusky, a writer who relinquished a daughter as a young single mother in New York State in 1966, supports opening the records. She reported in her 2015 memoir that in the handful of states that offered women the opportunity to remove their names from original birth certificates, only a small fraction of women — fewer than 1 percent ...
A blog for birth mothers and adoptees to share feelings and opinions and vent.
While she has long been retired from active work in adoption, she founded the largest adoptee-rights organization, Adoptee Rights Liberty Movement, better known as ALMA, which at its heyday in the Eighties had 50 chapters in cities large and small across America and about 50,000 members.