Crawford's oldest child, Christina, alleged that her mother ... the twins’ adoption had been arranged before their birth, and their birth mother died less than a week after they were born.

was reclaimed by his birth mother within a year of the adoption). But when her eldest adoptive daughter, Christina Crawford, released the tell-all memoir Mommie Dearest in 1978 — within a year ...

Christina was one of five children Crawford adopted ... who was later reclaimed by his birth mother; a second boy, also named Christopher, in 1943; and twin girls, Catherine (Cathy) and Cynthia ...

Christina Crawford, author of the controversial biography of her mother, the late actress Joan ... Richard Orloski of South Whitehall Township, attached birth certificates for Cathy and Cynthia ...

Crawford was unable to have kids, so she adopted five: a girl, Christina, in 1940; a boy, Christopher, in 1942, who was reclaimed by his birth mother soon after; a second boy, also named ...

Bettmann/ Getty Crawford's oldest child, Christina, alleged that her mother physically and emotionally abused her and Christopher in her 1978 tell-all memoir Mommie Dearest. (The book was ...