"In 2014, 23andMe estimated that 7,000 users of its service had discovered unexpected paternity or previously unknown siblings — a relatively small fraction of overall users. The company no longer provides data on surprise results. However, its customer base has more than doubled since 2014, and now contains more than 2 million people — and as more people get involved with recreational genomics, bloodline surprises are certain to become a more common experience. The 2020s may turn out to be the decade that killed family secrets, for better and for worse...
Pratt says she doesn’t regret testing her DNA. She found herself both “devastated and curious” after the initial discovery about her genetic heritage. But, of course, that discovery was not hers alone, because her genes are not hers alone. Cases of unexpected paternity and secret adoptions implicate other people.
“I think this jars him,” she says of her biological father. “He goes to bed the good guy — he’s always been very religious, very Catholic. And he wakes up, he’s Mick Jagger. He has a baby. It blew his mind a little bit.”
The main story isn't about Pratt, it's about a woman who discovers that her father wasn't actually related to the family he grew up in. (And he wasn't adopted)
silence them."
No comments:
Post a Comment