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

"If, later on, one of my children meets someone who doesn't know who his natural father is, he can consult this list," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 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

Adopted into another family, children ceased to have any claim of kindred or inheritance through their natural father, though any rights they might have through their mother were not similarly affected.

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