![]() Zhang: So you had already suspected something.Ĭhris: I knew my ex-wife was having affairs back then, and I couldn’t catch her. My ex said, “No, you already know who you are because everybody’s tested.” I knew she was lying, so I said, “Okay, I’ll buy you a test.” They had a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale back last year, and my daughter was curious about her ethnicity and so she asked us for a test. I’m into genealogy, and so myself, my ex-wife, and the grandparents are all taking the DNA tests. Zhang: How did you find out? Was it your daughter who took an AncestryDNA test?Ĭhris: Yes. The transcript below has been edited and condensed for clarity. We spoke about how revelation has changed his family, what it’s like to parent a teen going through this, and the particular difficulties of talking about this as a man. Two and a half weeks after the discovery, he filed for divorce. (They also have a 13-year-old son, who is his biological child.) Earlier this year, after buying his now-15-year-old daughter an AncestryDNA test, Christopher found out that he is not her biological father. One such father is Christopher, whose real name we are withholding at his request. The creator of DNA NPE Friends, Catherine St Clair, recently created a group for the fathers. Many of them belonged to a private Facebook support group called DNA NPE Friends-where NPE stands for “not parent expected”-that sprang up to connect the thousands of people who’ve had their identities altered by a DNA test. They have also, in some cases, uncovered difficult family secrets.Įarlier this year, I heard from dozens of people who took a DNA test only to discover their fathers were not their biological fathers. The tests have reunited long-lost cousins and helped adoptees find their birth parents, donor-conceived kids their sperm donors. As DNA-testing companies sell millions of kits, they’ve started to rearrange families.
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