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Pro Creators: Sperm Donors Are Dads to Dozens
Fox News & New York Post ^ | June 19, 2011 | unkonwn

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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TOPICS: Agriculture; Pets/Animals; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: armageddon; children; invitro; men; parenting; reproduction; spermdonor
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To: sodpoodle

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.


21 posted on 06/20/2011 4:22:45 AM PDT by Chickensoup (The right to bear arms is proved to prevent government genocide. Protect yourself!)
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To: sodpoodle

Pity the poor, lost, fatherless children.

It’s a sad, sad story for them.


22 posted on 06/20/2011 4:26:06 AM PDT by Travis McGee (Castigo Cay is in print and on Kindle.)
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To: philman_36

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.”


23 posted on 06/20/2011 4:34:19 AM PDT by sodpoodle
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To: sodpoodle
A man & women should marry until death, in order to raise children of that marriage together.
That's pure idealism. Reality often gets in the way as even you note with your "should".
What if staying married does more harm than good for a family? Will the children benefit if the parents are constantly arguing and bickering or if relationships devolve to something like alcohol or drug abuse?

Even the Bible gives recourse to divorce. Pigeonholing doesn't work.

24 posted on 06/20/2011 4:46:18 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: sodpoodle
...than the naive men who...
You're doing it again. Despite your nay saying and flowery words why do you keep laying this at the feet of men? Your own words betray you.
25 posted on 06/20/2011 4:48:35 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: sodpoodle
...abused by a ‘new boyfried.”
As if a woman's 'new girlfriend' couldn't abuse them just as easily?
Your own words betraying you, as I said.
26 posted on 06/20/2011 4:51:43 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: sodpoodle
Young man in my family...

And so one young person's mistakes made you so jaded towards men in general? I'm not buying it.

27 posted on 06/20/2011 4:54:47 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: tanknetter
-- Whitehurst could be the father of 42 to 60 children --

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 have wondered the same thing. What a mess.
28 posted on 06/20/2011 4:57:26 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: sodpoodle

Tag line ....


29 posted on 06/20/2011 5:50:59 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
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To: Girlene

“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.


30 posted on 06/20/2011 5:52:37 AM PDT by spankalib
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To: sodpoodle

Wow. And I sold blood when I was in college.


31 posted on 06/20/2011 5:57:42 AM PDT by Kenton (Trust, but carry a gun...)
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To: spankalib
Pakistanis have high rates of marriages/births between first cousins. Consequently, birth defects are also high. From Birth defects warning sparks row

..........."Research for BBC2's Newsnight in November 2005 showed British Pakistanis accounted for 3.4% of all births but have 30% of all British children with "recessive disorders". "
32 posted on 06/20/2011 6:12:29 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: sodpoodle

The perils of turning pro and a testament to keeping your amateur status.


33 posted on 06/20/2011 6:15:43 AM PDT by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: philman_36

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.


34 posted on 06/20/2011 7:20:02 AM PDT by sodpoodle
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To: tanknetter

***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.


35 posted on 06/20/2011 7:43:44 AM PDT by kitkat ( I sure HOPE that it's time for a CHANGE from Obama.)
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To: DannyTN
I think the real issue in that story was the treatment of the wife and the husbands refusal to let her have a child, not the spilling of seed per se.

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.

36 posted on 06/20/2011 7:52:18 AM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: sodpoodle

***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!


37 posted on 06/20/2011 7:52:26 AM PDT by kitkat ( I sure HOPE that it's time for a CHANGE from Obama.)
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To: Biggirl

“Sarah directed Abraham to father a child via Hagar, the maid-servant” and WHAT a mistake THAT was.


38 posted on 06/20/2011 9:23:46 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: sodpoodle
You are deliberately twisting my comments to fit your own jaded mindset.
I'm not twisting anything. Your words speak volumes on their own.

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.

39 posted on 06/20/2011 9:39:09 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: US Navy Vet
...and WHAT a mistake THAT was.
The direct cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict of today.
40 posted on 06/20/2011 9:41:20 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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