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Four-year-old Carrie is hugged by Mary Feldstein yesterday, after the Feldsteins, who are her adoptive parents, were awarded custody of the child. An (...)
Four-year-old Carrie is hugged by Mary Feldstein yesterday, after the Feldsteins, who are her adoptive parents, were awarded custody of the child. An (...)

Four-year-old Carrie is hugged by Mary Feldstein yesterday, after the Feldsteins, who are her adoptive parents, were awarded custody of the child. An (...)

Date8/24/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Four-year-old Carrie is hugged by Mary Feldstein yesterday; after the Feldsteins; who are her adoptive parents; were awarded custody of the child. An appeal court overturned a previous decision ordering Carrie to be returned to her natural mother who handed the child over to Feldsteins 10 days after she was born.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0046538F
Three-year-old child and Mary Feldstein, who's raised the little girl from infancy, return home after a shopping trip yesterday. The Feldsteins will a(...)
Three-year-old child and Mary Feldstein, who's raised the little girl from infancy, return home after a shopping trip yesterday. The Feldsteins will a(...)
2/28/1973
Big puff for four-year-old. Carrie Feldstein, the girl who is involved in a court battle over her custody, yesterday celebrated her fourth birthday. S(...)
Big puff for four-year-old. Carrie Feldstein, the girl who is involved in a court battle over her custody, yesterday celebrated her fourth birthday. S(...)
7/1/1973
Carrie with Mrs. Carl Feldstein. The Feldsteins may keep the child they raised
Carrie with Mrs. Carl Feldstein. The Feldsteins may keep the child they raised
8/24/1973
With her doll, Carrie sleeps in sheets printed with scenes from the Peanuts comic strip in the Feldsteins' home, on Dynevore Rd. in the borough of Yor(...)
With her doll, Carrie sleeps in sheets printed with scenes from the Peanuts comic strip in the Feldsteins' home, on Dynevore Rd. in the borough of Yor(...)
2/27/1973
Mary and Carl Feldstein cling to Carrie, the child they have raised almost since her birth 3 1/2 years ago whom they no must give up to her natural mo(...)
Mary and Carl Feldstein cling to Carrie, the child they have raised almost since her birth 3 1/2 years ago whom they no must give up to her natural mo(...)
2/28/1973
Wiping away tears, Mary Feldstein talks of Carrie, the child she must give up after 3 1/2 years
Wiping away tears, Mary Feldstein talks of Carrie, the child she must give up after 3 1/2 years
2/27/1973
It's like a secular baptism, says County Court Judge Archibald Carter about ceremony when he grants permanent custody of children to adoptive parents. Carter went through his customary warm ceremony for 9-month-old John who became son of Ray and Bambi Reilly. Brother Grant, 4, looks on.
It's like a secular baptism, says County Court Judge Archibald Carter about ceremony when he grants permanent custody of children to adoptive parents. Carter went through his customary warm ceremony for 9-month-old John who became son of Ray and Bambi Reilly. Brother Grant, 4, looks on.
1/27/1977
Carrie Feldstein would not be going through her present ordeal, says reader, if she had been given back earlier to Mrs
Carrie Feldstein would not be going through her present ordeal, says reader, if she had been given back earlier to Mrs
3/5/1973
Carrie Feldstein. 'Happy where she is'
Carrie Feldstein. 'Happy where she is'
8/24/1973
Carrie Feldstein. Supreme Court issue
Carrie Feldstein. Supreme Court issue
2/27/1973
Carrie Feldstein. Caught in the middle
Carrie Feldstein. Caught in the middle
3/7/1973
It does not always pay for adoptee to try to find natural parents, says Selina Heaton, above, who was rejected by real mother after adoptive parents d(...)
It does not always pay for adoptee to try to find natural parents, says Selina Heaton, above, who was rejected by real mother after adoptive parents d(...)
3/3/1976