In high school Steve Jobs fathered a child.
Though the renowned entrepreneur and tech genius, Steve Jobs, led a guarded personal life, it had been no secret that he was adopted. Steve Jobs had a dramatic biological family background, with a less than traditional relationship with that part of his past. In 1955 Steve Jobs was born and immediately put up for adoption. Years later he would experience a similar situation when his high school sweetheart would give birth a baby girl that Jobs would remain estranged from for many years.
Steve Jobs with his estranged daughter, Lisa Brennan
It is hard to believe that a man who dropped out of college to pursue spiritual enlightenment with a pilgrimage to India would actually deny what he probably always knew. On May 17, 1978 his then high school girlfriend gave birth to his daughter Lisa. For two years Jobs denied paternity and refused to accept his responsibilities as a father.
Going back to his past, Steve’s own biological father played that same role, abandoning his family. Shortly after Steve Jobs was put up for adoption, his biological parents actually ended up marrying and having a daughter. But shortly after Steve’s sister was born in 1962, his father, Abdulfattah “John” Jandali, left his family and filed for divorce.
Steve Jobs Biological Father, Jandali
Maybe it was Steve’s own issues with his own family history that caused him to react the way he did towards his daughter Lisa. Finally in 1986 Jobs acknowledged paternity for Lisa and the father and daughter were able to start building a relationship.
Though Steve Jobs went as far as swearing in court that he was “sterile and infertile, and as a result thereof, did not have the physical capacity to procreate a child.” Around the time of Lisa’s birth, an Apple computer was actually named the Apple Lisa computer. Jobs claimed that it had nothing to do with his daughter and that the name came from the acronym “Local Integrated Software Architecture.” Only Steve Jobs will ever really know the truth.
A grown up Lisa Brennan.
Reconnecting with estranged biological parents or even learning that you are adopted can take a serious toll on the psyche. That feeling of not knowing where you come from, yearning for a deeper understanding of your “self” can truly consume someone. Along with those feelings is the depressing idea that you are unwanted.
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I always find it odd that people repeat the behavior that formed who they are. Whether it is the way Jobs was toward his daughter even though he was adopted or people that are molested become molesters. The human mind is interesting. Also as to adoption I think people look at it incorrectly. Instead of the parents not wanting the child, the child is wanted and taken in by a couple that wanted nothing more than that child.
Steve Jobs was probably one of the most revolutionary people in our lifetime, in my opinion.
It’s a real shame that he passed away, but I think what most of us can agree on is that he’ll remain a part of Apple for many years to come.
If Steve Jobs was born in 1955 and his daughter was born in 1978, he was approximately 23 years old and I highly doubt he was “still in high school.”
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Steve Jobs is a legend. No one can ever compete him.
Didn’t know that Steve Jobs had an illegitimate child