What? Was he mid-wifed into this life?
From the article:
"He was born in a car 20 years ago as his mother tried to get to a hospital. By age 2, he was being raised by Los Angeles County's child welfare system. At 18, he was sent by the system into adulthood without a single form of identification: no driver's license, no Social Security card, no way to prove who he was. "
I suppose his mother could have gotten him a birth certificate after she'd delivered him, but apparently it slipped her mind.