He is the sixth of the thirteen children of Fred Phelps, from whom he – along with three of his siblings – had been estranged since his eighteenth birthday in 1976 until his father's death in 2014.
Шестой из тринадцати детей покойного пастора Фреда Фелпса, Нейтан вместе с тремя братьями и сёстрами жил отдельно от отца с 18 лет и до смерти последнего в 2014 году.