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Chapter 1: What is the story behind Searching for Soldier Dad?
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Motivation included.
Kathy grows up barely knowing anything about her father.
I've never really had like a dad, so to know what that feeling is, to actually miss, you can't miss something that you've never had.
Sometimes she's bullied at school in Kenya. Being mixed race, her skin is lighter, her hair is a different texture. Her mum, Maggie, tells Kathy her dad was a soldier and had been deployed to Afghanistan.
You know, she's young to understand.
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Chapter 2: How does Kathy discover the truth about her father?
What could I have told her? I just told her, I think he's dead.
But after searching Facebook late into the night, Kathy learns the truth, well, part of it, and discovers her father is alive.
So I start scrolling and scrolling and then all of a sudden I see someone with the same name as me.
And he was a soldier in the British Army. Cathy doesn't know it yet, but this marks the beginning of a nine-year quest to find her father.
Chapter 3: What challenges do mixed-race children face in Kenya?
A quest that will unite her with lawyers and DNA detectives across the world and will reveal to her that she's far from alone in her search.
I even had a dream one time that he came here. I had that dream with my dad. And in that dream, he told me he loves me.
So growing up from this village, we were in school with some of these kids of mixed race heritage.
Chapter 4: How is DNA technology being used in the search for absentee fathers?
And of course, they were pretty much ridiculed.
She'll discover that her story is part of a bigger pattern, one whose implications go to the very highest levels of power. I'm Ivana Davidovic, a BBC journalist. For the past two years, I've had exclusive access to a cutting-edge project to find absentee military fathers. We expose a scandal that has hidden in plain sight for decades. This is World of Secrets, Season 12.
Searching for Soldier Dad, a BBC World Service investigation.
If we find the father, we can give the child a sense of identity of who mummy is and who daddy is, so they can live their life knowing who they are.
We're following lawyers and scientists who are launching a revolutionary project that fuses DNA science with law.
and I'm going to put it inside your mouth. Okay.
It could, could be that this man is related to you. And specifically, there is a chance, we do not know 100% yet, but there is a chance that this guy could be your father.
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Chapter 5: What impact does finding absentee fathers have on children's identities?
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