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In Germany, a recent court ruling means it is impossible to donate anonymously. Another court ruling makes it impossible to get out of child support. EDIT: Chil

In Germany, a recent court ruling means it is impossible to donate anonymously. Another court ruling makes it impossible to get out of child support. EDIT: Child support only ends after around 5 years of university study. I predict mail-order sperm or sperm bank tourism. Especially for high acheivers' sperm.

Ergomane 14y ago
Do you have a link to that ruling? AFAIR, the 2002 law change made it harder for the _social_ father to get out of child support.
dbaupp 14y ago
So the sperm donor has to pay child support??
- konstruktor 14y ago
  Not yet. The doctor has been ordered to disclose the donor's identity (which, AFAIR, he claims to not to know anymore). If the identity is known, the father then could be sued for child support.
  - Semaphor 14y ago
    > If the identity is known, the father then could be sued for child support. Neither is it sure that would actually happen (it did in the US, not in Germany yet though) nor does that seem in the interest of the child in this specific case
- Semaphor 14y ago
  As far as I know only the US had sperm donors pay child support so far. News article about anonymity in Germany for sperm donors: http://www.dw.de/no-anonymity-for-sperm-donors-court-rules/a-16582786 http://www.dw.de/no-anonymity-for-sperm-donors-court-rules/a...
  - jrogers65 14y ago
    > As far as I know only the US had sperm donors pay child support so far. I did not think that this kind of insanity was possible outside of a mental institution but apparently it is. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/01/02/us-sperm-donor-kansas-court-lesbian-couple.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/01/02/us-sperm-donor... The insanity is that it's not the woman who recieved the donation who was fighting for child support but the state.
UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
The UK too has removed the right of sperm donors to be anonymous[1]. The scary part about it was that they did it after the fact. So people who donated on the grounds of anonymity then had the rules change on them after-the-fact. So if you donated today who knows what the rules/responsibilities might be tomorrow? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_donation#United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_donation#United_Kingdom

Ergomane 14y ago

Do you have a link to that ruling? AFAIR, the 2002 law change made it harder for the _social_ father to get out of child support.

dbaupp 14y ago

So the sperm donor has to pay child support??

konstruktor 14y ago
Not yet. The doctor has been ordered to disclose the donor's identity (which, AFAIR, he claims to not to know anymore). If the identity is known, the father then could be sued for child support.
- Semaphor 14y ago
  > If the identity is known, the father then could be sued for child support. Neither is it sure that would actually happen (it did in the US, not in Germany yet though) nor does that seem in the interest of the child in this specific case
Semaphor 14y ago
As far as I know only the US had sperm donors pay child support so far. News article about anonymity in Germany for sperm donors: http://www.dw.de/no-anonymity-for-sperm-donors-court-rules/a-16582786 http://www.dw.de/no-anonymity-for-sperm-donors-court-rules/a...
- jrogers65 14y ago
  > As far as I know only the US had sperm donors pay child support so far. I did not think that this kind of insanity was possible outside of a mental institution but apparently it is. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/01/02/us-sperm-donor-kansas-court-lesbian-couple.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/01/02/us-sperm-donor... The insanity is that it's not the woman who recieved the donation who was fighting for child support but the state.

UnoriginalGuy 14y ago

The UK too has removed the right of sperm donors to be anonymous[1]. The scary part about it was that they did it after the fact. So people who donated on the grounds of anonymity then had the rules change on them after-the-fact. So if you donated today who knows what the rules/responsibilities might be tomorrow? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_donation#United_Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_donation#United_Kingdom