Biological father

I realised the other day that my life changed massively when I was LP’s age. Ten seems to be quite a big age for any girl. On the cusp of puberty, starting to really build your own interests and with the transition to secondary school looming. But for me there was so much more than...

It wasn’t until his mid-twenties that he found out the truth after having all three of his potential fathers take a DNA test.

Picture this: a young man, the product of a one-night stand, raised by an adoptive father who later marries another woman and has two children. The young man discovers his biological father, develops a close relationship with him, and even takes his last name. Fast forward to the young man's wedding day. He invites his adoptive father,

After 37 years, I finally found my biological father. However, I don't know what to do. Do I contact him and out him to his "new family" or do I let it be?

Abdulfattah Jandali is an American businessman, restaurateur and former teaching assistant of Syrian origin who is best known as the biological father of Steve Jobs, the late CEO and co-founder of Apple Inc.

The story of Jeff Bezos being raised by an adoptive father is hardly new. The Amazon.com Inc. CEO has said previously that he never knew his biological father, and the only time he thinks about him is when he fills out medical forms. But in his forthcoming book, Bloomberg BusinessWeek senior writer Brad Stone unearths Ted Jorgensen, and finds a sympathetic figure who had no idea that one of the world’s most successful businessmen is his son. Instead, the onetime circus performer expresses…

My mother divorced my biological father when I was very young. I have two memories of him. I think. They are too grainy and I was too young to consider them accurate. My dad adopted me when he married my mother. He is on my birth certificate. I took his name. I kept it when I got married. I am his eldest child. And, maybe, sometimes, I am nothing. #personalessay #adoption #parenthood

Dads, sons, and daughters share their incredible stories of connecting with relatives after years apart. #23andme #dnatesting #fathers #justfordad #family