By Flora - 17/04/2013 22:56 - United States - Watsonville

Today, I got ancestry DNA tests for my parents and myself. The DNA testing company informed me that I'm a 50% match for my mother but I share no DNA with my father. Apparently, both my parents forgot that they used a sperm donor. This insignificant detail has slipped their minds for 35 years. FML
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FaygoAndMiracles 18

Even though it would have been best for them to tell you, maybe it just didn't matter to them because they know that the real parents are who raise you, not who you are biologically from.

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iloveCS8 11

That sucks FYL! but as long as your "father" treated you with love and raised you as his own,then remember the good memories and know he loves you just as he would if you were his real son

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SilverAngel36 8

How are you only 50% match to your mom? If your mom is your biological mom shouldn't it be in the 90 percentile?

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ThatWeirdGurl 20

You receive half of your genes from your mother and half from your father. Both parents donate half of their genetic material Each to their off spring. So it couldn't not possibly be ninety percent.

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ballbearing 10

Have you never watched Maury?? He doesn't declare you are 50% match therefore the father! Noooo!!! It's 99.9% you are the father!!

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samanthahwill 2

No. Half your DNA may come from one parent and half from the other, but every human has considerably more than 90% similar DNA. It's what makes us the same species.

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tj4234 35

I'm interested to know, what caused you to get the test in the first place?

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evilhobbitofdoom 4

Ancestry.com does DNA testing to help with genealogy.

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jjmiller1001 17

so what OP? any fool can be a baby daddy. it takes a real man to be a father. and I'm guessing that's what you have, so don't let it stand in the way of being happy

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thundergodx 11

That technology wasn't around then... She fooled around -pregnancy proctor

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1crabbygirl 10

Technology? OP didn't say in vitro. You can donate sperm with a turkey baster. And I am pretty sure that technology was around 35 years ago.

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RedPillSucks 31

@39. Not to lessen your point, but in-vitro started in the late 70's early 80's so it could have been used...

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DuRpY 5

First, this FML read like a book. After the first half, I was like, whaaaat? Uh oh, we've got a mystery on our hands, and OP just found out that her mother was a cheating *****. And this is where I paused for a second to relish in the suspense, and pondered a little on what OP will do with this newfound damaging information. Will she keep it to herself,

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DuRpY 5

I think it's sweet and reassuring that it turned out it to be an innocent thing like this. Halfway through the post, I predicted that it was going to go an entirely different direction, namely that the mother had cheated on the father all those years ago. Glad to see my cynical self stand corrected. Also, OP, consider this: Had your parents not failed at their attempted pregnancy, you would not be here. It took the genetic combination of your biological mother, and some completely random stranger outside of their marriage, someone with whom she should by all means have no association whatsoever, to produce you. Your parents tried their best to have a child of their own, and when they couldn't, they went the extra mile. I wouldn't doubt their love. Stop griping.

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profoundkisses 18

Well it probably didn't matter who's baby it was they still love you the same :)

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angelitared 27

If they have been good parents, what does it matter??

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