birth father

Noa, who is unaware of his birth father and takes after his adoptive father, is shy and studious, Mozasu brash and unsuited to study.

At 16, Lee moved to Wisconsin to live with her birth father, a chapter that took another dark turn when he was arrested and imprisoned for sexually assaulting his then-girlfriend.

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.”

He didn’t really know his birth father and didn’t make it past ninth grade.

Then one afternoon in August 2021, more than three years after they’d done the tests, Becca opened her email to find a message someone had sent to her through 23andMe’s system … from a woman claiming to represent her birth father.