With commercial sperm banking giving women more opportunities to become mothers, a world-first QUT study has found the age and education of sperm donors are the most important characteristics considered.
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Sperm-Donor Kids Ask About Their Biological Fathers At Age Three
Where’s my daddy? Children who were born of sperm donors and raised by single moms ask about their fathers from as young as aged three. The major study is the first to analyze the emotions of sperm-donor kids.
China has Fertility Woes so Alibaba is Buying Sperm
Thanks to Alibaba, China’s answer to eBay, more 20,000 men just made a very quick buck. From July 15 to 17, the e-commerce giant advertised a special deal offering 5,000 yuan — about $800 — to sperm donors. The initiative was an attempt to help restock Chinese sperm banks, which are currently going weathering a bit of a drought.
A BC Alum’s New Site Links LGBT Couples With Egg Donors, Sperm Donors & Surrogates
Today, there are no shortage of options when it comes to starting a family without traditional conception. But that doesn’t mean it’s an easy road. For LGBT couples or those with reproductive challenges, finding egg donors, sperm donors or viable surrogates is a long and complicated process. Bird Meets Bee, a new tech resource built by a Boston College alum, seeks to simplify things by basically serving as a dating site for fertility.
Lack of Maori, Polynesian Sperm Donors
Increased demand for sperm donors means some people are waiting up to 18 months before starting a family.
Sperm Donors Are Winning Visitation Rights
When it comes to parents, it seems that three or even four is no longer a crowd. At least, that’s the conclusion one might draw from the case of Sheena and Tiara Yates, a married lesbian couple in New Jersey. They’ve had their parenting expectations upended—twice—by the sperm donors of their two kids. Both men agreed, in writing, to provide their raw materials and to leave the parenting to the women. But then they decided that, after all, they’d like to have some role in the lives of their biological children, so they applied for visitation rights. As of now, the bio dads are winning. Their case is just the latest reminder of how perilous and confusing assisted reproduction cases can become.
German Supreme Court Grants Children Of Sperm Donation To Learn Father’s Identity At Any Time
The German Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in favor of children of sperm donors’ right to know the identity of their biological father. As gray areas to the preexisting law have now been clarified, the BGH asserts that the child’s right to know holds “generally a greater weight” than the requests of anonymity by the donor. This marks the first time the BGH has taken a firm stance in favor of one side.
I’m a Married Father … And a Sperm Donor
As more and more couples seek medical help to have children, there’s high demand for sperm donors. What motivates a man to donate his reproductive cells to an unknown number of women so that they might have a child biologically related to him that he may never meet?
Today’s Sperm Donor Isn’t a Broke 20-Something
Most people think of sperm donors as 20-somethings looking for a quick buck. But today’s donors want to know about their offspring, and even be involved in their lives.
How Do We Encourage More Men to Donate Sperm?
A shortage of UK sperm donors means clinics increasingly have to import sperm from abroad. Theo Merz speaks to three British donors and asks how we reverse the trend