biological parent

“Knowing that you were essentially sold by a biological parent for a spring break or to pay off student debt is not a fun feeling,” Laura High told me.

Ms Han is the first biological parent of an overseas adoptee seeking damages from the government, while in 2019, a man who was adopted in the US was the first adoptee to sue.

In September 2023, a law changed in the UK giving people born using a sperm or egg donor in the UK the right to find out the identity of the biological parent.

But despite his current pessimism about the viability of becoming a biological parent, Kari says he "wouldn't write it off".

In other circumstances, the stepparent becomes the child’s parent in the absence of a biological parent.