Uprooted: Family Trauma, Unknown Origins, and the Secretive History of Artificial Insemination

How do we get to be who we are? We all have a story. I thought I knew mine…poor kid with a dysfunctional childhood made good, combat veteran, high tech CEO. Except that I accidentally discovered the shock of my life in 1995 (at age 49)…my genetics weren’t what I thought. “Dad” wasn’t biological. I was “misattributed” , a word totally unfamiliar to me. My birth certificate and DNA didn’t jive. And I learned an added shocker…2 to 4 percent of us (some experts believe that number is much higher) have joined this genealogical bewilderment club. How can that be? Not adopted or a product of an extra marital affair, I learned that, like me, over a million people were “semi-adopted” in a hush-hush process where parents were fully complicit…artificial insemination by an anonymous donor.

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