parentage

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In a podcast with The Athletic FC, Rosenior highlighted how his star striker, Emmanuel Emegha, was labelled "difficult" and "emotional", but said he understood the Netherlands international with Nigerian parentage.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

Courts in different jurisdictions don’t necessarily have visibility into parentage applications filed elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

Factual parentage was all that mattered under the law.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025

And although she didn’t know it, Estelle was misled about her parentage — her elder sister was actually her mother; the mother who raised them both was her grandmother.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2025

I often wondered whether she was a person of mixed parentage.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry