In Scotland, it is not uncommon for a grandmother (or an aunt) to be given a
child to raise (in the cases I knew, where the mother was very young), and
the child never knew or only discovered when an adult that her older sister
was her mother.
Arnold Chamove
Palmerston North, NZ
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After all, with the wars and epidemics that were prevalent in Europe, there
must have been many cases of informal adoption.[asc] Michael Goldsmith[asc]
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