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Right to Know is a nonprofit membership organization devoted to the concept of an individual's fundamental right to know their biological parentage. The organization came into existence in 20__ largely as the result of commercial DNA tests from companies such as Ancestry.com and 23andMe becoming more affordable and more widely available to the public. The commercial availability of these tests has resulted in numerous individuals who have discovered a "misattributed parental event" (MPE), or the discovery that one or both parents is not the individuals biological parent. Individuals who experience an MPE discovery have previously been uninformed of their genetic truth by the parental figures who have raised them.

Mission and Advocacy Work: According to the Right to Know website, the organization helps to educate the public and professionals on the complex intersection of genetic information, identity, and family dynamics, advocating for people whose genetic parent(s) is not their supportive or legal parent(s). Their advocacy efforts include raising public awareness of misattributed parentage experiences (MPEs), promoting access to trained mental health professionals, and lobbying for changes in the law to reflect the right for people to know their genetic identity.

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MPE Discoveries Featured In Popular Culture:

In Season 6 of the HBO hit show "The Sopranos," Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri learns that his birth mother is actually his Aunt Dotty, a Catholic nun, and the sister of his adoptive mother Maria Nucci.