Kith, Kin and Cuckoo
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, 5 December 1985
Lost Children: The Story of Adopted Children Searching for their Mothers
by Polly Toynbee.
Hutchinson, 288 pp., £9.95, August 1985,0 09 160440 0 Show More
by Polly Toynbee.
Hutchinson, 288 pp., £9.95, August 1985,
“... kingdom,’ she says, suggests that adoption of alien offspring with alien genes is virtually unknown. A male gorilla acquiring a new female into his group will automatically kill off her offspring by a previous male. A lion acquiring a new pride will kill off all the young progeny of a previous male. The instinct appears to be to multiply your own ... ”