Those are minor things but I note that much ink is spilled over his birth parents. Did they regret the adoption plan since he turned out to be such a success? Did he ever meet them? I think the answer is no by all accounts although he did meet his biological sister as an adult and they were friends. But I can't help but notice very little is said about the parents that raised him. They are his parents by adoption yes...but his parents that nurtured and raised him.
All the press is on his biological parents. This article even calls his relationship with his birth parents "estranged" or a "rift." I realize that it makes a juicier story to explore who sired him but the reality is not as exciting. How about the fact that Jobs did not know his biological parents? He never met them. There was no rift or estrangement that suggests that there was a relationship that later ruptured. Men tend to be less inquisitive about these things by nature. He did not know them! His parents were Paul and Clara Jobs. They raised him. As this article states, of the secretive Jobs ...
"And on the rare occasions that he talked about his adoptive parents, he revealed a special admiration for them. He described his father as “a genius with his hands” and said that what he wanted for his own children was “to try to be as good a father to them as my father was to me.”He just did not spend much time thinking about the people who had a biological attachment to him only. Many adoptees feel this way. As I said, men are much less curious about who sired them but even some women feel no need to search or dwell on it. They have parents who raised them and that is enough. Perhaps for Jobs that is the case as his private nature revealed when speaking of his parents....Paul and Clara. Not to take anything away from the birth mother who choose life and then made an adoption plan but he was raised by Paul and Clara. Let's not give them short shift here...they are his parents and there is no estrangement or rift.
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