Dr. Greg Markway is a clinical and forensic psychologist from Jefferson City, Missouri. Five years ago, he began a quest to find his grandfather's origins. His grandfather was born in New York City, and was dropped off at the New York Foundling

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Outside Over There

Dec 5th, 2022 10m 12s

This is an interim episode regarding the movie ELF and the misattributed parent experience. This short segment also discusses fatherlessness through the ages (in art and literature) as well as a year-end mixed tape/ playlist just for the MPE c

Who Shines Light in the Darkness?

Oct 19th, 2022 1h 16m

Raised as an only child, Shelly's mom and dad passed away when she was in her early 20s. In spring 2021, at age 35, she was ready to find children she had been told her dad had before she was born but didn't raise. What she found out is that he

Grief Is Part of the Journey

Oct 6th, 2022 59m 2s

In 2021, Alexis Hourselt discovered that the man who had raised her was not her biological father. What's more, after having been raised for 35 years as a bi-racial Mexican American women, she found out that she is half African American. In

One Lie 14,000 Times

Sep 24th, 2022 53m 49s

Dawn Davies is the author of Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces (published by Flatiron Books, 2018), which won the Florida Book Award Gold Medal for General Nonfiction and the GLCA New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her essays and st

The People I Call Family

Sep 16th, 2022 1h 5m

Angie was born into a blended family in a small town in Montana. With a brother and sister 9 years older - through her dad - and a second sister who was 5 years older - through her mom- she never felt like her family was any different from an

I Have a Voice & I Want to Use It

Jun 28th, 2022 48m 44s

Jillian always knew she was conceived via an anonymous sperm donor. Raised the only child of an open and supportive single mother, she took a DNA test in October of 2020 in an effort to identify her biological father. Fairly quickly, Jillian's

You Belong Here

May 28th, 2022 1h 3m

At 42 years old, Kim was working on her paternal family’s tree via Ancestry when she uncovered a very big secret. A secret that she would also discover most people around her known for years. She always had an underlying feeling that she was di

The Ghost Children

May 14th, 2022 1h 6m

My guest this week is Mirren (she/her), a Missouri adoptee, born and raised in St. Louis. She holds an A.B. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College; a Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of California, Berke

An Underestimation of My Determination

May 4th, 2022 1h 16m

This week I would like to welcome Stacy, a thirty-four year old mother of a two year old little girl; Stacy and her husband are expecting a second daughter in August. Living on the central coast of Oregon, Stacy and her family have a dairy farm

I Am Right Here

Apr 14th, 2022 1h 44m

Our guest for Episode 7 is Brandy, a 41 year old wife and mother of three who found out her "dad" was not her biological father when she was 10. It took her 30 years to find out who her biological father was and to put a label on her non-pater

The Half Known Self

Mar 21st, 2022 1h 1m

Kara is a 21 year-old egg donor conceived person. She was 10 years-old when her raising parents told her she was donor conceived and she struggled with her biological mother’s anonymity in her teenage years as her conception was never mentione

The Cult(ure) of the Family

Mar 20th, 2022 32m 43s

*Interim episode 2*. The host discusses what it means to be an NPE in a culture so heavily identified with family. What idioms, proverbs, tropes do you hear routinely? How does the NPE experience impact your sense of home? What responses to you

The Nurse: In The Room

Mar 7th, 2022 13m 47s

This is an interim episode: a tribute to a different kind of family. Perspectives of fellow nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic, two years later.

The NPE Experience: One Year Later

Feb 28th, 2022 34m 44s

Driving to work with an updated / retrospective on my NPE story and introduction to the show.

Misattributed Parentage: Kinship vs DNA

Feb 6th, 2021 28m 25s

This is an introductory episode to Unfinished Truths where the host discusses kinship and how her own non-paternity event (NPE) has broken her understanding of kinship and family wide open.

Welcome to Unfinished Truths

Feb 6th, 2021 5m 59s

This podcast it about truth: partial truths, broken truths, undiscovered and unfinished truths. How do we understand kinship in the age of reproductive technologies and prolific, consumer DNA analysis when what we discover isn't a truth at al

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