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 name and the address left me no doubt that it was my natural father.

From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2017

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

He admitted that he was the natural father of the three children who are all under 16.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2010

Pompey replied, that for Tigranes, he belonged more to his own natural father than his father-in-law, and for the boundaries, he would take care that they should be according to right and justice.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh