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Adoptees have located birth parents they were told were dead.
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Time, 15 May 2025
You can also be born deaf if your birth parent had certain infections or was exposed to specific chemicals.4
Ear infections and trauma to the ear can also cause deafness.1
Risk Factors
Several risk factors can make deafness more likely.
—Heidi Cope, Health, 20 Apr. 2025
Exceptions are made if the birth parent is deceased or in jail and the court finds the stepparent's relationship with the child to be in the child's best interest.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning (PBS) Frontline and the Associated Press examine allegations of abuse and fraud amid South Korea’s foreign adoption boom and find that many children had been stolen from their birth parents and handed over to unwitting Americans desperate to adopt.
—Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2025
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Time, 15 May 2025
You can also be born deaf if your birth parent had certain infections or was exposed to specific chemicals.4
Ear infections and trauma to the ear can also cause deafness.1
Risk Factors
Several risk factors can make deafness more likely.
—Heidi Cope, Health, 20 Apr. 2025
Exceptions are made if the birth parent is deceased or in jail and the court finds the stepparent's relationship with the child to be in the child's best interest.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning (PBS) Frontline and the Associated Press examine allegations of abuse and fraud amid South Korea’s foreign adoption boom and find that many children had been stolen from their birth parents and handed over to unwitting Americans desperate to adopt.
—Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2025
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“Birth parent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birth%20parent. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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