Posted on 10/13/2005 4:22:27 AM PDT by yankeedame
Sperm donor to pay child support
From correspondents in Stockholm, Sweden
13-10-2005
From: Agence France-Presse
A SWEDISH man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple must pay child support for the three children he fathered, Sweden's Supreme Court ruled today.
The man, now 39, donated his sperm to the couple in the early 1990s. Three sons were born during the years 1992-1996, according to Swedish news agency TT which reported the ruling. The man told the court that he and the women had agreed that he would play no role in the boys' child rearing and that the two women would be their parents.
Nonetheless, the man signed a document confirming that he was the biological father of the children.
Shortly after he signed the document, the two women separated and the biological mother demanded that the man pay child support.
The man took the case to court, but lost in the district and appeals courts.
The Supreme Court upheld those rulings today, saying that as the biological father he is required to pay for the children's upbringing.
Good ....serves him right for fathering children into a perverted lifestyle.
Ingrates. This goes in the "no good deed goes unpunished" file.
A few years ago in Massachusetts, a man found out through a DNA test that he was not the father of the child he had been paying child support to for years. The poor sap had believed the child's mother when she said that he was the daddy. After learning that he had been duped, the guy tried to get his child support obligation terminated. The Court said no - still gotta pay.
My thought exactly while reading the article. Ya beat me to it.
Perhaps our Supreme Court will adopt this ruling?
If he were the biological father of a child subsequently adopted by a lesbian couple, would he still be liable?
You could say he gave them a "helping hand."
Pearls, I think you meant "no good seed goes unpunished", didn't you?
Sorry, I have to disagree.
I don't think donating sperm to a lesbian couple falls in the "good deed" category.
More like enabling freaks to impose their perversion on the next generation.
If he'd donated to a hetero couple unable to conceive, that would be a different story.
Not only should this guy pay child support, but he should pay for the therapy these kids are going to need. In the welfare state of Sweden, he should reimburse the state for any welfare they are sure to collect for the rest of their lives.
amazing
No paperwork, he TOLD the court, he didn't show the court a signed agreement. Now he knows.
Yep. This one seems like a no-brainer to me. On many levels.
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when lesbians we help to conceive!
Be careful where you send your Boys...
Boy! did he get screwed!........No, wait a minute......
Maybe now he learned his lesson and will wash it down the sink like Clinton did...
I once dated an evil, manipulative bi**c, who it later turned out, was catting around with a number of guys. She just liked the fact that I treated her well, and didn't really ask for anything in return. When I found out what she was doing "on the side," she was really quite angry when I told her that I was going to have nothing to do with her, ever again.
A few months later I got a call from her. She told me that she was pregnant, and that I would have to marry her, otherwise she was going to file a paternaty suit against me. I had to remind her that we had never had sex. I never did find out if she were really pregnant or not. If she was, I feel terribly sorry for any children she had. Either way, I feel sorry for any guy or guys she managed to ensnare!
Mark
Three SONS born to a lesbian "couple" ?!?!?! The irony!!!
ROTFLMBO!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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GO FORTH AND DONATE...........NOT IN THIS CASE.
Excellent
YEs - BUT....
This also shows just how corrupt those who practice homosexuality are - they just wanted his sperm. Now they want his money, despite their agreement that he was simply the "sperm donor".
But I also agree that he should have known better. Unfortunately, the same thing could happen here in the states, even if it were a single woman.....
I know a few lesbian couples that have had kids... every last one of em, the "mother" stays home and is considered single by the state and gets tons of freebies for her and her kid from the social welfare programs....
I have been approached by lesbian couples to donate the sperm for them to have children... I have politely turned them down cold. Heather doesn't need 2 mommies.. and heaven help any boy that would be raised in such an environment.
In that case you better get yourself a legal document that is accepted by the courts before you wank into that cup.
*snicker*
What good deed was done?
The guy got what he deserved. Putting a child in a perverted relationship.
Wait until it happens with all those college students here in the U. S. that made money at the sperm bank...they can just consider it an 18 year loan.
ROTFL
Ditto.
Exactly.
there is no such thing as a foolproof legal document. laws are whatever the courts decide they are whenever they want to. btw, your first post was spot on, it simply could not have been better. do i feel sorry for this idiot? nope, not at all, hes a liberals liberal, guaranteed. poor boys, though.
Here is a case of alien law I really really like.
Insane.
eeeeewwwwww Oval Office memories ... I was just beginning to forget them....
I'm still wrestling with the implications. Is this good news? Meaning, lesbians will be unable to bear children because no guy in his right mind will be a donor?
I agree with the rest of you however. The poor children conceived won't have to hear, when they ask their Mom, "Who's my Dad?" that their father was a turkey baster.
Something every dad should tell his sons...frequently!
Then he should get visitation rights and have an active role in their lives.
ping a ling...
Wait until this decision is upheld in an American court. Thousands of heterosexual couples with infertility conditions will find having a child even more difficult when sperm donors stop donating over the fear of being held financially responsible.
That might put a end to willing donors to gay couples.
Just a Minute, I'm assuming he didn't place the sperm directly into the "woman" because of her Disorder, Therefor the doctor actually impregnated the "Woman" and the Doctor should pay the support.
In any event this surrogate man should be removed from the Gene Pool.
It is an abuse of children's rights. A child has the right to have its parents in its life. Children are not property that can be bought, sold, or donated.
Tell that to private adoption agencies that charge upwards of 20k to adopt a child.
I'm speaking of how things should be, not how they are: children should not be bought, sold or donated. But at least in the case of adoption people are trying to find a way to resolve a situation in which children cannot be raised by their parents. In the case of gay marriage and sperm donors they are deliberately creating a situation in which children are not being raised by their parents.
I think almost all of us agree that homosexual couples is not in the best interest of the child(ren). I am considering the implications this ruling will have on heterosexual couples who face infertility problems.
My husband and I have faced that problem for our 12 year marriage. Unless someone sells and we buy a child (private adoption) or the components are donated for us to conceive on our own (infertility treatments) we would be childless.
I am thankful that there are people in this country willing to donate sperm/eggs in order to help people to have a child. I wonder how much that would change if our courts adopted this same ruling. It isn't like our USSC has never based a decision on the laws of another nation.
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