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
He didn’t really know his birth father and didn’t make it past ninth grade.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023
It was hard to know what to say, so she just said something along the lines of this: “My name is Rebecca. I somehow met your birth father in Korea. Please call me.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023
Vicki was also able to trace her birth father living in Jamaica and was told she had a half-sister called Angelique, who was raised by her mother and stepfather, and two half-brothers.
From BBC • Mar. 27, 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
