US Woman, Before 36th Birthday, Discovers Her Father Is Not Her Biological Parent

One woman named Tiffany Gardner of Atlanta, Georgia was dumbfounded after she came to know that her late father was not her biological dad. Her mother revealed that the man her daughter had long believed to be her dad was in an accident that likely left him infertile, so they used a sperm donor. Tiffany’s father died due to colon cancer when she was 4. Her mother married another man and both took care of Tiffany. “I felt I was falling backwards trying to process the moment,” recalled Gardner after the truth was revealed to her. After this, she went in search of her third father.

In 2018, shortly before Tiffany’s 36th birthday, her mother revealed that the man whom Tiffany considered her real father was her mother’s first husband, but he was also not Tiffany’s father. Tiffany was born through sperm donation. The couple kept it a secret because the woman’s first husband never wanted Tiffany to know that he was not his original biographical father. Tiffany was born in 1982. When Tiffany learned about this, she understood her mother’s helplessness, but she also felt that she should have told her about it in her childhood.

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After that, Tiffany got a commercial DNA test done and she was matched with a person who was the son of her real biological father. After the DNA matched, it was revealed that her real biological father was alive. Somehow, she met the son of her father and expressed her desire to meet her biographical dad. The person initially did not want to meet due to pressure from his family, but then he was contacted. After some meetings, the man’s family did not like the inclusion of Tiffany in the family and decided to end all connections with her. Tiffany is now 41 years old and has 3 sons. It has been 17 years since her marriage. Since then she has been advocating that the identity of the sperm donor should no longer be hidden in a country like America. Gardner lobbied for a first-in-the-nation law that was passed last year in Colorado that obligates future sperm and egg donors to reveal their identities if their grown children ask for the information from the sperm banks.