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...
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