birth father
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While seeking to understand how Otto got this assignment, Ms. Kuehn learned that Ruth’s birth father had been a Jewish man.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
Noa, who is unaware of his birth father and takes after his adoptive father, is shy and studious, Mozasu brash and unsuited to study.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024
At 24, he met his birth father, launching a relationship with him, his half-siblings and extended family that he says over time “changed the trajectory of what's family to me.”
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2024
Then the following week, just as the sisters were starting to get their bearings back, they were in surreal territory again — on a Zoom call with Mr. Park, their birth father.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
Though he was raised by an impoverished working-class couple—his foster father was a glazier—it turns out that his birth father was a general and his mother was an aristocrat.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
