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They know precisely how they were parented and that the actual identity of one of their parents is technically unknown. These people will have to take a single

They know precisely how they were parented and that the actual identity of one of their parents is technically unknown. These people will have to take a single additional genetic testing step in family planning to avoid the problem.

kevviiinn 4y ago
You seem to be making a big assumption, do all recipients of sperm donors explain that to their children? I'm highly skeptical People shouldn't have to go the route of genetic testing, which apparently has serious privacy implications, just to have kids
- akira2501 4y ago
  > do all recipients of sperm donors explain that to their children? I don't have children, so my question may come across as callous, but how would you not? Aside from the genetic relatives issue there are a host of other medical issues and complications that arise from not having the full identity of the other parent. Considering that this particular part of the issue that can only arise in adulthood, I was sort of assuming that you'd almost certainly explain the situation to them by that point.
  - anonymouskimmer 4y ago
    You're ignoring that many people don't want to rock the boat. And anytime you tell a child that the person they thought was their daddy, isn't, you're rocking the boat. Regardless of the age of the child. If this is an un-partnered mother and her children, then sure, much less excuse to not tell the kid, and much less reason to not tell them. But for partnered couples there's an inherent friction built in.
  - kevviiinn 4y ago
    You're again making a huge assumption, that which assumes that all people who have children are so responsible or have as much forethought
janc_ 4y ago
He has been doing this for years. It's quite likely that a child born without a donor (and thus unsuspecting) but with a parent born from this donor will fall in love with a later child from this donor. Suddenly you have half-uncle/aunt procreating with half-nie ce/nephew...
ncallaway 4y ago
So your theory is everyone who is a child of this person will be informed of that fact, and that before every one night stand all of these people will do a genetic screening before they fuck? That just doesn’t sound very plausible to me…
eep_social 4y ago
from the article > The donor "deliberately misinformed" prospective parents about the number of children he had already fathered in the past, the district court in The Hague said.

kevviiinn 4y ago

You seem to be making a big assumption, do all recipients of sperm donors explain that to their children? I'm highly skeptical People shouldn't have to go the route of genetic testing, which apparently has serious privacy implications, just to have kids

akira2501 4y ago
> do all recipients of sperm donors explain that to their children? I don't have children, so my question may come across as callous, but how would you not? Aside from the genetic relatives issue there are a host of other medical issues and complications that arise from not having the full identity of the other parent. Considering that this particular part of the issue that can only arise in adulthood, I was sort of assuming that you'd almost certainly explain the situation to them by that point.
- anonymouskimmer 4y ago
  You're ignoring that many people don't want to rock the boat. And anytime you tell a child that the person they thought was their daddy, isn't, you're rocking the boat. Regardless of the age of the child. If this is an un-partnered mother and her children, then sure, much less excuse to not tell the kid, and much less reason to not tell them. But for partnered couples there's an inherent friction built in.
- kevviiinn 4y ago
  You're again making a huge assumption, that which assumes that all people who have children are so responsible or have as much forethought

janc_ 4y ago

He has been doing this for years. It's quite likely that a child born without a donor (and thus unsuspecting) but with a parent born from this donor will fall in love with a later child from this donor. Suddenly you have half-uncle/aunt procreating with half-nie ce/nephew...

ncallaway 4y ago

So your theory is everyone who is a child of this person will be informed of that fact, and that before every one night stand all of these people will do a genetic screening before they fuck? That just doesn’t sound very plausible to me…

eep_social 4y ago

from the article > The donor "deliberately misinformed" prospective parents about the number of children he had already fathered in the past, the district court in The Hague said.