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

Mr Dingemans said the allegations about the natural father in the wake of the tragedy were "shocking and appalling".

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2012

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

This obscurity in the conception of Jesus as Logos by the Christian church is the reason why Celsus does not regard Joseph as the natural father of Jesus, but Panthera.

From The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)