Lion dads: Chinese father raising mixed-race adopted son, diaspora dad and stepdaddy with teen sons

(From top left, clockwise) Families of Deepak Gurnani, Caleb Tan and Alvin Chia. PHOTOS: COURTESY OF KARAN GURNANI, CALEB TAN AND ALVIN CHIA
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SINGAPORE - Fathers are champions and this is vividly seen in the stories of dads who bring up kids in special circumstances.

Civil servant Alvin Chia and his wife crossed ethnic boundaries to adopt a child from an unwed Indian undergraduate, nine years after the birth of their only daughter.

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