natural father

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“This may be his only chance to be a natural father in 20 years’ time, and I couldn’t not give him that chance.”

From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2018

The woman he thought was his mother was his aunt, the sister of his natural father.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2017

When he began to go through the legal procedures for adoption, social services tried to find the natural father.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2014

In perhaps his boldest act with his new identity, he demanded that the birth certificates of the children be amended “to reflect that Jeffrey John Shaw is the natural father of our children.”

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2011

Truly you are a Roman parent," said he, bowing ironically; "but you will excuse me if I find it time to seek the lad's natural father.

From The Blue Pavilions by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir