I moved to Boston after college to find my birthfather. My sole black parent, who, I’d been told, used to spend a lot of time hanging around the Berklee School of Music—not as a student, or a teacher, ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. A new reader with a new angle on the popular thread: I adopted my ...

Larry Goodijohn, 62, of Merritt Island is thankful that he has finally met his birthfather, Jerry Kane, 83.

NEW YORK (AP) — Estrangement can make Father's Day complicated for many families, but reunion can be oh so sweet. Here are three stories — and many lives — touched by fathers lost and found. In 2008, ...