Beautiful woman. She should be glad it wasn't Prince Charles.
Posted on 06/24/2010 4:11:53 AM PDT by cycle of discernment
Caroline was fathered by a sperm donor - so why does she bitterly resent the stranger who gave her life?
24th June 2010
The act will have been brief, impersonal and utterly bereft of emotion - but 25 years on, the moment that Caroline Halstead was conceived is causing her lasting heartache.
For she was fathered by an anonymous sperm donor and, like a growing number conceived in this way, she has struggled to come to terms with the fact that she is the product of a scientific process rather than a loving union.
'I was conceived in a petri dish by artificial insemination at a Harley Street Clinic in London,' she says, describing the fertility treatment her mother sought when her husband was diagnosed as infertile.
'In my view, it is a horrible, clinical way to be conceived. All my life I've felt as if I'm only half a person.'
A Surrey housewife and mother who is expecting her second child in August, Caroline is haunted by the thought of her conception - and the fact that, unlike her children, she will never know or even meet her biological father.
Her feelings are far from isolated. A new study, the first of its kind into the effects of donor conception on offspring, reveals the complex and often troubling emotions adults born in this way can experience. They feel confusion, isolation and hurt, more acutely, even, than those who have been adopted.
More than half admitted that whenever they see someone who looks like them, they wonder if they're related. And two-thirds affirmed the right of donor-conceived children to know the truth about their origins.
'Out there, in the world, is a whole family I will never know and who will never know me'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“The act will have been brief, impersonal and utterly bereft of emotion”
This is the definition of a one night stand. Get over it lady.
So much for liberals telling us that children don’t need two parents and a whole family. When people start messing with the design..........
She’s also probably bitter that she wasn’t aborted.
In the grand scheme of life's regrets, I doubt most sane people spend quality time lamenting that which they never had or knew.
And two-thirds affirmed the right of donor-conceived children to know the truth about their origins.
Wonder what the odds of inbreeding are? to bad they will forever feel hurt onbody should do that to a kid.
Yeah. That must be why there are agencies that help adoptees find their birth parents. /s
Beautiful woman. She should be glad it wasn't Prince Charles.
It was 25 years ago...move one
These people need to grow up, get over it and stop thinking about themselves and their precious “feelings” all the time.
She’s alive, she’s obviously had a comfortable childhood, and she has nothing to complain about.
Some fine upstanding gentleman, alone and aroused with a magazine and specimen jar in some clinic wap-off room. I'm sure Social Security has a category for her to receive monthly benefits under this situation...
Why doesn’t she shoot herself? Why waste time whining to the press?
What a whiner!
Because she can’t ove on.org with life, and be happy that she is here to GIVE life to others, she is going to majorly screw up her children, as they grew up with an angry, bitter, small-minded mother who is an emotional cripple.
"get over it son".
screw your feelings. you should be more concerned over the lack of knowledge of medical history.
Snivel, snivel, whiiiiiine!
The wench has a husband and a family and she is playing the Drama Queen?
Get a life, lady!
PS “lady” was used very casually in this case.
I presume she grew up in the home with her mother and her mother’s “infertile husband”. Wouldn’t he have provided the role of “father”.
It’s the unattached mothers that go through this process that I don’t understand.
I am surprised at the Freepers that don’t understand the questions of ethics involved here. What if 2 of theses unknown siblings meet and start to date? And yes, it happens. I know a young man that was adopted and his parents had to tell him that the girl he was interested in was his half sister. IVF and the secrecy over donor identity is dangerous.
'I found out I was donor conceived in the middle of an argument,' says Chloe,
'It was the worst possible way to be told - the man I thought was my father suddenly said: "That's it. I've had enough. There's something I need to tell you right now." '
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