Adoption 1950's Greece - "Son Finds Father's Birth Mother"
SON FINDS FATHER'S BIRTH MOTHER Published in The National Herald, March 4, 2006 Issue Authored by Dimitri Soultogiannis ------------------------------ We are excited to announce that The National Herald has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group. ------------------------------ WASHINGTON, D.C. - A baby boy is born at a local hospital in Patras, Greece on April 7, 1950. A few months later, the infant boy is baptized at Saint Nicholas Church in Patras at two months and 26 days of age, and is given the name Charalambos. His 18-year-old mother, Maria Valassopoulos, due to youth and financial limitations, is forced to make an immensely difficult decision: She decides to give her only child away to the local orphanage. Five years later, Charalambos is adopted by a wealthy American family, the Eberts, from Elwood Park, New Jersey. Charalambos stays with the Eb...