‘I clicked on a button – and everything changed’: how a DNA test turned my life upside-down

By The Guardian, 02/28/26

“…The biology mattered less to me than the secret. Dad had been adopted, it turned out. A classic affliction of the 1950s, in which young, unmarried couples were forced to give away their newborn babies. We were not to talk about it with him. “As far as he’s concerned his adoptive parents were his parents,” Mum told me. “He didn’t want to upset them by going looking for anyone.” …”

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