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 was one of six siblings and took the name of his stepfather, JD Foreman, rather than his birth father.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2025
At 24, he met his birth father, launching a relationship with him, his half-siblings and extended family that he says over time “changed the trajectory of what's family to me.”
From Salon • Aug. 10, 2024
He didn’t really know his birth father and didn’t make it past ninth grade.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 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
