The new movie “Delivery Man” stars Vince Vaughn as a former sperm donor who finds out that he has more than 500 children. Is this a Hollywood exaggeration or a possible outcome? Truth is, no one knows. In the United States, we do not track how many sperm donors there are, how often they donate, or how many children are born from the donations.
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Bill Expanding Sperm Donors’ Parental Rights on Hold
A bill sparked by a custody dispute involving “The Lost Boys” actor Jason Patric that would allow certain sperm donors to seek paternity rights in court is on hold after a legislative hearing Tuesday.
Gamete Donation: Findings on Disclosure and Anonymous Donation
By Madeline Licker Feingold, Ph.D., AFA Mental Health Advisory Council
Mental health professionals often are in the position of helping people build families with the help of egg or sperm donors. At times we see people who have been trying to …
Sperm donors who know parents can apply to see children, court rules
Sperm donors who know the parents to whom they have donated can apply for contact with their biological children, a court has ruled. Previously this was not allowed.
Following Thursday’s ruling straight and gay couples who are considering conceiving using a sperm donor they know are being urged to establish the childrearing equivalent of a pre-nuptial agreement – a co-parenting deal.
The case, the first of its kind, involves two lesbian couples who were friends with a gay male couple. All three couples are in civil partnerships. One of the gay men is the biological father of both the children of one of the lesbian couples, the other man is the biological father of one child who is being brought up by the second lesbian couple.
The male couple applied to the family court for contact and residency of their biological children. The women contested the application, saying that this would infringe on their family life, but lost. Under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act same-sex couples are legal parents of children conceived through donated sperm, eggs or embryos in the same way that heterosexual couples are. Read full article.
The Library of Congress Misses the Mark with New Donor Subject Heading Addition
by Patricia Mendell, LCSW with Patricia Sarles, MA MLS
The Library of Congress (LC) recently announced that they were adding a subject heading to their catalog entitled, “Children of sperm donors”. What is the …