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Mercy's new brother and sister-Madonna's adopted son David, three, and 13-year-old birth daughter Lourdes-were also on hand to help her settle into their suite at the famous hotel.

CAPTION(S): Annie Casserley, from Streetly, gave birth daughter Emma and son-in-law Andrew to her own grandchild as a surrogate mother for Hattersley in 2005.

To put this in perspective, our birth daughter is chastised physically only asa last resort among a whole range of other forms of behaviour managementstrategies which include rewards and sanctions.

And it is a testimony to Lynne's kind-heartedness that she also hopes Maddy's biological parents will one day strike up a friendship with their birth daughter.

The second event was my seeing the widely admired film "Lovely and Amazing," written and directed by Nicole Holofcener, about a mother (Jane, played by that fine Irish actress Brenda Blethyn, whose appearing in the film made me want to see it in the first place), her two birth daughters (Catherine Keener plays the elder, trapped in a marriage-gone-bland, but unable to pull her socks up, so to speak, and Emily Mortimer, as the younger, a wanna be actress, insecure about her body), and her adopted African-American daughter, who despite being insecure about her hair and only about ten years old, turns out to be the person with the best sense of self.

One woman in Washington state reported that an intermediary had violated her wishes and revealed her identity to her birth daughter.

Meanwhile, the 27-year-old actress, who gave birth daughter Honor in June, has shown off her post-baby shape in Campari's 2009 calendar.

As well as her birth daughter, Oscar-winner Miss Jolie, 32, has three adoptedchildren - Maddox, from Cambodia, Zahara, an Ethiopian girl, and Pax Thien,from Vietnam.