Steve Jobs never met his biological father but he

[evanovitch]

met his biological sister....did he meet his Mother????anybody ever hear that story?

i know he was given up for adoption but then his Syrian father later married his white mother n had the daughter....the father said he never approached him as him never want him to tink he was interested in his money...but wat about the mother?

anybody know?????

[evanovitch]

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Steve Jobs Death: Biological Father Regrets Never Meeting His Son

By Ray Downs | Christian Post Reporter


When news of Steve Jobs' death hit the world on Wednesday, one man realized a hope he held for years would never come to pass: to meet his biological son.


Jobs' biological father is Abdulfattah John Jandali, a Syrian-born immigrant who, at 80 years old, is still working as vice president of a casino in Reno, Nev. Jandali did not know he had fathered the world's most famous technology innovator until just a few years ago.

Although he had tried to contact Jobs by email, he was always too afraid to call.

"This might sound strange, though, but I am not prepared, even if either of us was on our deathbeds, to pick up the phone to call him," Jandali told the New York Post in August.

"Steve will have to do that, as the Syrian pride in me does not want him ever to think I am after his fortune," he said.

"Now I just live in hope that, before it is too late, he will reach out to me, because even to have just one coffee with him just once would make me a very happy man."

Jobs never made the call. And Jandali never met his biological son.

When the Reno-Gazette Journal contacted him on Wednesday, Jandali declined to comment.

"I really don't have anything to say," he said. "I know the news."

<span style="font-style: italic">Joanne Carole Schieble became pregnant with Jobs in 1954 while she was a graduate studying political science at the University of Wisconsin. Upon hearing the news, Jandali told the NY Post that he wanted to marry Schieble and keep the baby, but family pressures prevented that from happening</span>.

<span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;I was very much in love with Joanne,&quot; he said. &quot;But sadly, her father was a tyrant, and forbade her to marry me, as I was from Syria. And so she told me she wanted to give the baby up for adoption.&quot;</span>

The pair were living in Wisconsin back then, he said.

&quot;<span style="font-style: italic">Without telling me, Joanne upped and left to move to San Francisco to have the baby without anyone knowing, including me,&quot; he said. &quot;She did not want to bring shame onto the family and thought this was the best for everyone.&quot;</span>

<span style="font-style: italic">A few months after Jobs was given up for adoption, Schieble's father died and she agreed to marry Jandali. They had another baby: Mona, Jobs' sister whom he eventually met when he was 31.</span>

&quot;If we had just held off for a few months, then we would have been able to raise Steve as our own, but sadly, that was not the case,&quot; Jandali said. &quot;We often spoke of our son and how we both wished he was with us, especially when Joanne gave birth to Steve's sister, Mona Simpson. <span style="font-weight: bold">But nothing to do with Joanne and I was ever meant to be.&quot;
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Jobs remained close with Mona, who is a novelist and professor of English at UCLA.

''We're family,” Jobs said in a 1997 New York Times article. &quot;She's one of my best friends in the world. I call her and talk to her every couple of days.&quot;

Jandali, however, never got to be a part of Jobs' family. The reasons why they never met are unclear as Jobs kept his personal life private. What is clear, however, is Jandali's regrets over being an absentee father.

&quot;I'd be lying if I said it doesn't sadden me to have not been part of my son's incredible journey,&quot; he told the NY Post. &quot;What father wouldn't think that? And I would think that even if he was not the head of a hugely successful company.&quot;

[FrenchTickla]

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steve seemed to have expressed some regrets about not always being there for his kids. hence the scramble at the end to make sure the biographer captured his life so they would have an account of who he was and why he did what he did.

that kinda struck me.

[Gen]

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He also has a daughter (a think is a daughter) from a previous relationship that didn't grow up knowing him or living the lavish lifestyle that his other kids did (according to her)

I wonder if that was the choice of the child's mother ? To keep her out of the spotlight completely ? The child said they never had an abundance of things but that family life with her mother was &quot;warm&quot; ???

The father couldan did call him and seh him just find out and him nuh want nothing but him just wanted to seh _______. Lawd people can waste precious time sah

[FrenchTickla]

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di story mi hear about the daughter is that initially steve deny paternity and even swear in court seh him a fiyah blanks so it bioligically impossible. he acknowledged her round age 7 and supported her (she went to harvard).

[jah_yout]

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the media tells me that it's nearly impossible to excel if you grew without your father in a wed-locked nuclear family...
they say this is why the black nation is in crisis...

[CeaBee]

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the adoptive parents that he grew up with were married.

[CeaBee]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">He also has a daughter (a think is a daughter) from a previous relationship that didn't grow up knowing him or living the lavish lifestyle that his other kids did (according to her)

I wonder if that was the choice of the child's mother ? To keep her out of the spotlight completely ? The child said they never had an abundance of things but that family life with her mother was &quot;warm&quot; ???

The father couldan did call him and seh him just find out and him nuh want nothing but him just wanted to seh _______. Lawd people can waste precious time sah </div></div>


maybe the bio father heard from the sister that Jobs didn't want to meet him...so him never bother ?

I don't know how else the bio father could hold back suh to see your child in the news almost everyday..the full brother of another child that you did raise

[Skelly]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CeaBee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">the adoptive parents that he grew up with were married. </div></div>



ah sah

[nattydreadgirl]

Re: Steve Jobs never met his biological father but

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">He also has a daughter (a think is a daughter) from a previous relationship that didn't grow up knowing him or living the lavish lifestyle that his other kids did (according to her)

I wonder if that was the choice of the child's mother ? To keep her out of the spotlight completely ? The child said they never had an abundance of things but that family life with her mother was &quot;warm&quot; ???

The father couldan did call him and seh him just find out and him nuh want nothing but him just wanted to seh _______. <span style="font-weight: bold"> Lawd people can waste precious time sah </div></div></span>


(((GEN))) True statement, this statement hit me in the gut this morning.

[kia027]

Re: Steve Jobs never met his biological father but

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CeaBee</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">He also has a daughter (a think is a daughter) from a previous relationship that didn't grow up knowing him or living the lavish lifestyle that his other kids did (according to her)

I wonder if that was the choice of the child's mother ? To keep her out of the spotlight completely ? The child said they never had an abundance of things but that family life with her mother was &quot;warm&quot; ???

The father couldan did call him and seh him just find out and him nuh want nothing but him just wanted to seh _______. Lawd people can waste precious time sah </div></div>


maybe the bio father heard from the sister that Jobs didn't want to meet him...so him never bother ?

I don't know how else the bio father could hold back suh to see your child in the news almost everyday..the full brother of another child that you did raise </div></div>

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I dont think the bio father knew Steve Jobs was Steve Jobs until Steve met his bio sister..

The father was a product of a
different generation
different time &amp; space

I think Steves' bio mother may have felt more than the bio father.