Posted on 02/24/2026 7:37:27 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
Her father decided to have her born by way of an anonymous egg donor and a surrogate mother.
His obsession about having a figure skating daughter was clear: ‘I spared no money, no time,’
Alysa was intentionally created for a single-parent household; she will never know what it means to have a mother. Is this a fair and ethical decision to make?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Optimal way to raise a child is two dedicated biological parents. It is absolutely possible to raise a healthy, happy child in different circumstances but the degree of difficulty rises with each deviation from optimal. I believe it immoral to voluntarily deprive one’s child of the best upbringing you can provide. I don’t know enough to judge this father but the facts presented are disturbing.
“They’re both genetically engineered test tube ‘Human 2.0’ babies.”
Wow. This is a little scary.
They are both "test tube babies." Eileen Gu's mother says she received sperm from a donor, the storying being it was a former colleague at Harvard. No one has been able to figure out who it could have been - and Chinese netizens have been searching far more aggressively for an answer than any American bloggers have.
Its interesting that in both cases, they chose caucasian for the second parent genes, as mixed children a quite popular in China. Further, in good marxist-materialist, post-modern style - Gu's mother has attempted to optimize every aspect of her child's genes and environment, at every moment of Eileen Gu's life.
With such an attitude, no one should be surprised Gu chose to ski for China, when such large profit was on the table.
we live in a crab bucket, where anyone who does well gets pulled down.
Well people who don’t do well get pulled down also.
Everyone sits in judgement of everyone
alot of subjects are not anyone’s business but they will show up to be picked apart on FR anyhow.
I know what the facts are, but the implication is that it was a bad thing that her father brought her into the world knowing she would never know a mother’s love. Is that worse than not bringing her into the world to at least know a father’s love? That insinuation is where I call the article “stupid”.
I wondered why they only mentioned the father and Alysa didn’t look Chinese.
It’s because a man did it. If an AWFUL hitting the wall bought custom sperm she would be celebrated for being strong and independent.
There’s no way you get the medals without ambitious parenting. Nothing new there. What’s different here is that he specifically needed white genes for his plan to succeed.
I was responding to Dirty Secret’s own comment.
Alysa’s father produced five children via surrogacy. He is a lawyer and has the resources to give the kids a comfortable life. The children seem to be okay.
BTW children raised by a single father thrive almost on the level of a two parent household. Single mother households, not so much.
Sounds like the made a sports Frankenstein.
I don’t think there ever was a wife.
According to Wiki, she was already competing on a national level when she was only seven years old! She’s extraordinary.
Article looks like a CCP hit piece.
Both Liu and Gu’s parents thinking reveals a very common view of humanity, biology and technology in post-modern, post-marxist, hyper-materialist China.
For example, if animal-human hybrids are made in a lab, it will most certainly happen in China first.
Check out the photo of the extremely proud American girl, Alysa Liu in this post:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4368114/posts
We have millions of mothers having children who don’t know their biological father and most likely will become burdens on the criminal justice system. These single mothers are then rewarded with a lifetime of handouts from the government and someone questioning their ethics for having children out of wedlock is usually shouted down by those who instead laud them for their “bravery”. This single father raised someone who obviously is educated, a high achiever, and productive member of society all on his own, they were never a burden on the state. I fail to see why his ethics are questioned while single motherhood is celebrated.
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