How do you feel about men donating their sperm multiple times.?

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I saw an article in our Sunday Telegraph newspaper, and it said that "A donor conceived Australian woman who has 77 confirmed siblings, has called for the urgent creation of a national framework to regulate the fertility industry that allowed her biological father to donate more than 325 times, but files were lost". Just imagine
if she suddenly learned that her husband was in fact her 1/2 brother.?
 

There is a man in the Netherlands who is suspected of fathering 550 children this way.

Source: Sperm donor who fathered 550 children ordered to stop

Since we know how genetics work, this has the potential to be quite damaging. Like all things like this, controls, checks and balances, need to be in place. It would be trivial to DNA test donations to ensure people are complying by the rules. All that's needed is the will to do it.
 
Men should be very careful where they donate sperm. Some courts allow women to recover child support from sperm donors now. I have heard several news stories about this.
 

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Just a few thoughts ...

I wonder if the men who donate are the same men that couldn't find a willing woman to give him a child the old fashioned way? That would entail a commitment to the Mom(s) as well as raising the kid(s).

I also wonder if these sperm donor's have the kind of DNA that should even be passed along.

What kind of woman would do this? Is she financially able to completely support herself & the child? Is she herself mentally sound to make a decision to have a child from a man she knows nothing about?

Another thing, does anyone do a serious background check on either parent? Or do they just take the participating individuals own word for everything? I doubt checking up on them is done.

@Oldeagle66, I agree with those courts that the sperm donor needs to be responsible financially. The donor knows the end result will result in a kid.

I'm curious if anyone has figured out how many of these kids end up being raised with tax payer money because their "Dad" isn't paying their fair share.

When these kids grow up, I wonder how it will affect them if they are told the truth of how they came to be.
 
Lilac said:
I'm curious if anyone has figured out how many of these kids end up being raised with tax payer money because their "Dad" isn't paying their fair share.
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From the statistics I found googling, it would seem unlikely that the kids get raised with tax payer money:

In 1995, an estimated 170,701 (95% confidence interval 106,577–234,825) women had undergone DI using donor or mixed sperm. In 2015-2017, 440,986 (95% confidence interval 108,458–773,513) women were estimated to have used it. The DI users were mostly white, urban, older, college-educated, and had high family incomes.​
 
There has been more than one case of fertility doctors who have secretly used their sperm to inseminate patients resulting in biological children. I remember at least two cases being reported on TV through either Dateline, 60 Minutes or 48 hours. I also watched a Netflix film on this subject. It also demonstrated how unaware the patient as well as the child were about the biological father. There's also possible hereditary health or mental issues, or perhaps possible future incestuous relationship as some donors did this multiple times.
 
VaughanJB said:
There is a man in the Netherlands who is suspected of fathering 550 children this way.

Source: Sperm donor who fathered 550 children ordered to stop

Since we know how genetics work, this has the potential to be quite damaging. Like all things like this, controls, checks and balances, need to be in place. It would be trivial to DNA test donations to ensure people are complying by the rules. All that's needed is the will to do it.
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There should be a national registry. Picture it. uhh....no.don't.
 
Lilac said:
Just a few thoughts ...

I wonder if the men who donate are the same men that couldn't find a willing woman to give him a child the old fashioned way? That would entail a commitment to the Mom(s) as well as raising the kid(s).

I also wonder if these sperm donor's have the kind of DNA that should even be passed along.

What kind of woman would do this? Is she financially able to completely support herself & the child? Is she herself mentally sound to make a decision to have a child from a man she knows nothing about?

Another thing, does anyone do a serious background check on either parent? Or do they just take the participating individuals own word for everything? I doubt checking up on them is done.

@Oldeagle66, I agree with those courts that the sperm donor needs to be responsible financially. The donor knows the end result will result in a kid.

I'm curious if anyone has figured out how many of these kids end up being raised with tax payer money because their "Dad" isn't paying their fair share.

When these kids grow up, I wonder how it will affect them if they are told the truth of how they came to be.
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these seem unfair aspersions to me - I m sure most men donating are doing so with the same motives people who donated blood, plasma etc are
and some of them do have commitments to their own children - ie i n their own family

and nothing to suggest their DNA is any more risky than anyone else's - but probably anyone with a known genetic risk (ie eg a carrier for cystic fibrosis) should not donate and this may be checked first.

No the sperm donor should not be financially responsible - there are clear rules about this - they have no financial or otherwise connection to the child - the child is the responsibility of the legal parents. the child created is in somebody else's family

Reasons women do this - their partner has a low sperm count for some reason or has a high genetic risk disease, they are a 2 woman couple, a woman wants a child on her own

no reason any of the children created would be any more or less likely to be raised on taxpayers money

Where I live there are limits on number of children one sperm donor can create.

there are also now rules stating the child can contact donor when they are 18 - same as for adopted children. I think, like adopted children, it would be good to tell them once they are old enough to understand. I'm, sure if this is done well, children can understand and cope.
 
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VaughanJB said:
There is a man in the Netherlands who is suspected of fathering 550 children this way.

Source: Sperm donor who fathered 550 children ordered to stop

Since we know how genetics work, this has the potential to be quite damaging. Like all things like this, controls, checks and balances, need to be in place. It would be trivial to DNA test donations to ensure people are complying by the rules. All that's needed is the will to do it.
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I saw that documentary. Insane and bizarre. Sick bastard.....
 
Hon and I tried for years to conceive without success so we got some help at the Fertility Clinic.

I had to go in the sperm-donation room at the clinic and produce a sample which would be basically injected high up into my wife with a turkey baster type of tool. First time it didn't work...second time we got twins! :)

My issue when I went into that 'Room Full of Porn'? (really what it was)...I didn't know how long I should take. I figured if it all happened too fast, the Nurses on site would giggle!

There was a comments section on the form after I gave my sample. I wrote...

"The sub plot in the second porno was rather weak and unbelievable." :LOL:

The Nurses all gave me some strange smiles when i went back the next time for the next consult!
 
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