Posted on 06/20/2011 2:46:34 AM PDT by sodpoodle
When he was a cash-strapped college student 20 years ago, Todd Whitehurst didn't think too deeply on the consequences of donating sperm. Then, when he was 41, he got an e-mail from a girl named Virginia. "She said, basically, 'I'm 14, and I think I'm your daughter,' " explained Whitehurst, now a 45-year-old medical engineer. Shortly after, he found a son, Tyler, now 14. And another, Gavin, now 16. That led to another child, and another, and yet another. "It was definitely overwhelming," Whitehurst said. "I'm not even sure how many children there are." So far he has found nine kids sired by his sperm. Statistically speaking, said one biogeneticist, Whitehurst could be the father of 42 to 60 children. Thanks to a lack of industry regulation, high totals are all too probable, especially for prolific college kids like Whitehurst -- who donated weekly for about three years, for $50 a pop, at a clinic on the Stanford University campus in the 1980s and '90s.
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This isnt my cup of tea.
However my first thought was isnt it nice that high end sperm donors are spreading it around instead of the usual low end low lifes.
Pity the poor, lost, fatherless children.
It’s a sad, sad story for them.
Sorry for not adding:
“women who are cavalier about aborting their ‘unplanned’ pregnancies are even more reprehensible than the naive men who impregnate them without considering the possibility of a son or daughter being aborted or worse, abused by a ‘new boyfried.”
Even the Bible gives recourse to divorce. Pigeonholing doesn't work.
And so one young person's mistakes made you so jaded towards men in general? I'm not buying it.
Tag line ....
“And in all likelihood those children all live in the same geographic area. I wonder what the odds are of two of them meeting and, not knowing that they’re half-siblings, ending up in a relationship that results in marriage?”
I’ve often thought that this is most likely the case with welfare babies as well. Gubmint becomes the daddy, and the so-called men who sire multiple children on multiple welfare queens are not held responsible...(more cash for the mamas). I wonder what the results of an epidemiological study - looking for birth defects - would be in the high-welfare areas...
Probably no one wants to look.
Wow. And I sold blood when I was in college.
The perils of turning pro and a testament to keeping your amateur status.
You are deliberately twisting my comments to fit your own jaded mindset.
The young man in my family is devastated by the loss of contact with his child. He and his daughter are victims of a controlling young woman - who appears to believe that she (because she gave birth) should be the custodial parent.
Traditional religious-based, social norms of virginity before marriage and fidelity afterwards were demonstrably superior to what passes as socially acceptable behavior today.
***And in all likelihood those children all live in the same geographic area. I wonder what the odds are of two of them meeting and, not knowing that they’re half-siblings, ending up in a relationship that results in marriage? ***
EXACTLY my reaction. And the Godless libs will wonder why there are so many mentally ill children.
One note on the Onan story, that "wife" you speak of was his brother's widow and under Law he owed her a child that would be called his brother's. He was struck down for repeated disobedience because any child with her would not be known as his.
***Traditional religious-based, social norms of virginity before marriage and fidelity afterwards were demonstrably superior to what passes as socially acceptable behavior today.***
TOTALLY AGREE!
“Sarah directed Abraham to father a child via Hagar, the maid-servant” and WHAT a mistake THAT was.
The young man in my family is devastated by the loss of contact with his child.
Well he's obviously, to use your words, just a naive man who impregnated her without considering the possibility that she might run off with his child.
Traditional religious-based, social norms of virginity before marriage and fidelity afterwards were demonstrably superior to what passes as socially acceptable behavior today.
The concept sure does. Pure Norman Rockwell.
Real life, however, isn't a portrait. It's messy, dirty and has never been the idealized world you're trying to make it seem with your quaint depiction.
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