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

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.


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