Infertility doctor secretly fathered dozens of children: how strangers became family

不育症医生秘密地成为数十名孩子的父亲:陌生人间如何成为家人

Up First

2026-07-19

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What defines a family? For a group of strangers, that question took on a profound, unexpected meaning after DNA tests revealed a hidden, decades-old deception. They discovered they were all half-siblings conceived through artificial insemination in the mid-20th century. Their biological father was not the man who raised them, but Dr. Charles Charny, a Philadelphia fertility specialist. In this week's episode of The Sunday Story, Frank Langfitt follows this unique family as they piece together their strange creation tale and decide to become a family. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences. NPR Privacy Policy
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  • I'm Aisha Roscoe, and this is a Sunday story from Up First.

  • Earlier this year, eight siblings gathered at a beachfront resort in Fort Lauderdale for a reunion.

  • Like some families, this one makes t-shirts.

  • Grina, a retired college professor, hands them out.

  • Someone take a picture of Joe with his t-shirt.

  • The t-shirt features a photo of a sibling's father.

  • He's a bald man with glasses.

  • Rather a pleasant picture.

  • Thin lips, of course.

  • This is Gil Brodsky, another sibling.

  • He reads the speech bubble next to his father's mouth.

  • Says Gilbert was my favorite.

  • The t-shirt is a joke in more ways than one.

  • Gil never knew his biological father.

  • Neither did anyone else at the table, including his half-sister, Dina Harris.

  • I don't know him.

  • I mean...

  • I think he was a bit eccentric, so who knows?

  • I mean, it must have been sitting somewhere in his mind that what he did was odd.

  • Until a decade ago, none of these siblings knew any of the others existed.