Adoptive

Both women had unconventional lives. Clark’s academic parents raised their kids partly in Nigeria and Chile and spent their spare time on DIY projects. At one point they bought land in New Hampshire, and the whole family built a house on it by hand. Later, her work as a documentarian took her all over the world, with her children often tagging along. When Rockefeller was 3 years old, meanwhile, her mother joined a cult and left the family. Rockefeller’s father remarried, and he and Rockefeller’s adoptive mother, both government workers, cultivated the family with a strong ethic of public service. As she grew up, an iconoclastic characteristic kept Rockefeller from settling into one particular career; she worked as a kayak guide and a crafts-person, among other jobs.
–Wired