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speaking of sperm donors
Did anyone read this article on boston.com today? link
It's about a guy who donated sperm when he was in law school and now has at least 70 biological children. He recently met two of them for a reality tv documentary.
I never thought much about sperm donation before, but I was really surprised that they will give out the same person's sperm to that many different people. That is a lot of close relatives running around with no idea they are related!
I also found the half-sibling registry idea fascinating.
The guy's fiance did not sound pleased about all of his "offspring". I'm not sure how I would feel if I were in that situation.
Re: speaking of sperm donors
Our little Irish rose came to us on March 5, 2010
Don't drink the water.
Disclaimer: I am not an MD. Please don't PM me with pregnancy-related questions. Ask your doctor.
I saw a similar article on google last month about a guy in CA who has fathered like 150 kids via his donation. It said that some of them got together for a reunion and a lot of them look alike.
The problem is that most likely these people probably live within a relative distance to each other and if they don't know or realize they have the same sperm donor genes...you get the picture.
What are ART issues?
And MrsC, yes, I get the picture. Even if people don't live close to each other, the world is so small these days. And all of these children are pretty close in age. I think in this case they ranged from newborn to 9 years. And they are still selling his sperm!
Assisted reproductive technology. Sorry, was in the IF world for a looooooong time. Issues like Kate + 8, Octomom, surrogacy, Indian surrogacy, sperm donors with 70 "kids", IVF embryo switches, etc.
Our little Irish rose came to us on March 5, 2010
Don't drink the water.
Disclaimer: I am not an MD. Please don't PM me with pregnancy-related questions. Ask your doctor.
I know a couple who used a sperm donor, and they had the option of buy all of his sperm so their children wouldn't have any half-siblings out there. They did, and now have two kids.
This is all fascinating. I never thought about all the half-siblings who might accidentally end up together, nor did I know that one could purchase all of the donations from one person.
Very, very interesting.