Just saw a little feature on this topic on Good Morning America, but a quick trip around google shows this isn't breaking news. Matter of fact last year in Pennsylvania a court ordered a man to pay child support to the lesbian couple that used his sperm after, get this, the couple broke up and one of the women needed help to pay her own court-ordered child support. And in this case from last year a man who had a relationship of a "patriarchal nature" with the child, was forced to pay child support conveniently around the time the child was set to enter college. I'll have to google around and see if, in the same spirit, women now have to have the father's approval before having an abortion.
Moreover, the Good Morning America report said this is holding true even for anonymous donors, in cases where the mother needs help paying her own or her child's medical bills or, for the time being, other extenuating circumstances. So a woman can decide to impregnate herself and can then proceed to shakedown a stranger for money? As if being a husband and/or a father weren't a dangerous and financially risky enough proposition nowadays.
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Seems like you have a specific interest in this subject Brian. Care to share?
Not exactly a specific interest. I don't have any kids and I'm not paying for any. I just found the story a bit troubling. Yes, I know there are lots of other issues out there, but I guess I found this one particularly unsettling this morning. Maybe it's because I'm a guy, I dunno.
Ah...I actually donated my sperm in university. Not a sperm bank, but scientific experiments in testosterone levels. $75 a pop. But not used for kids. I wouldn't do that.
I thought maybe you'd done something similar....
I think it is wrong to ask the sperm donor to pay for child support, however, if the child is born with a genetic disease which the child didn't receive from the mother's side then the donor SHOULD and MUST pay for the child's medical bills. Because it’s the donor's fault in the first place, he should never have donated “defective” sperm.
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