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In a 2019 episode of Finding Your Roots, the Saturday Night Live alum and his mother, Marjorie Marrow, finally learned the identity of her birth parents after Marrow, who was adopted, had struggled to track them down.
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Katherine Schaffstall, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
Hoping to get Rapunzel's attention, her birth parents (a.k.a.
—Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
When the state has custody of kids, caseworkers and birth parents must sign off on decisions about education and health care.
—Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
Failing to find birth parents can also send adoptees on an obsessive chase.
—Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
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Katherine Schaffstall, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2025
Hoping to get Rapunzel's attention, her birth parents (a.k.a.
—Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2025
When the state has custody of kids, caseworkers and birth parents must sign off on decisions about education and health care.
—Jayme Fraser, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
Failing to find birth parents can also send adoptees on an obsessive chase.
—Barbara Demick, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
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“Birth parent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birth%20parent. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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