Posted on 05/25/2011 6:44:59 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Neil Richards was so excited about the impending birth of his child 10 years ago he discussed building a home in the Blue Mountains for himself and the lesbian couple who had used his donated sperm to conceive.
Mr Richards, who answered the couple's advertisement in a magazine, said they agreed he should be involved in his daughter's life but exactly how was never decided.
He said he provided sperm to Jesse Star, now 49, paid $5000 for her fertility treatments at a Woollahra clinic and paid for the midwife who managed the home birth of the child in August 2001.
He had also agreed to father a child with Ms Star's partner, Sofia Marita, but that failed.
The two women separated in 2008.
Ten years on, after a tumultuous relationship between the three parents, Ms Marita is taking the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages and Mr Richards to court to have his name removed from the child's birth certificate.
It is the first case of its kind since the introduction of a retrospective law in 2008 giving lesbian couples equal parenting responsibilities or legal status.
Mr Richards, a 58-year-old retired real estate agent, said he had gone through ''10 years of hell'' and spent $50,000 on legal fees.
He has seen his daughter for five hours each fortnight since she was one. He paid $150 a week child support for her first year, though he is not legally obliged to, and paid one-third of her school fees for two years.
Last year, he allowed Ms Star, listed on the birth certificate as a clairvoyant and funeral celebrant, to stay at his Hazelbrook home for three months when she was unable to pay rent at her own home, he said.
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As if life is not complicated enough...we need to add every twisted freak option to the mix.
Funeral celebrant? WTH is that?
Yet many of them act like men.
I frankly believe that homosexuality is a personality disorder. Why?
Because men want to look like women to attract men, and women want to look like men to repel men. If you find that sentence confusing, read it again. To my mind, it isn’t even about sexual preferences; it seems more about ‘fear’.
So far no evidence has been found that homosexuality is genetic or biological. Hermaphrodites are a unique genetic circumstance unrelated to homosexuality.
...and that's the big mystery of it. It makes no sense for a woman that claims revulsion to men... to be attracted to a masculine woman. Or vice versa with men.
Women attracted to feminine women is at least easier to understand, being a man I can understand what makes women attractive. But then again, I don't for the life of me see what could make a man attractive to anyone. I just have to accept it as written that for most women, thankfully, it happens.
ROTF
Okay, let’s list this whole thing out.
The first problem with this guy was about deliberately having a kid without marriage. Whether or not society accepts only this, it’s seriously time to get a clue that surrogate parenting (sperm donations) is something that gets rampant with lawsuits over the child’s custody. Personally, if people had enough sense to see how rampant and chalk full of court battles for child custody you could get for being either the sperm donor or recipient, I would be willing to bet the majority of people who tried would back off with at least a little common sense.
Second, do you think you can win an argument as being a father against a woman who can argue that she bore the child to term, not to mention can nurse it as well?
The whole thing was a great blasted deal of foolishness on this man’s part.
Speaking as a woman,I like men very much,as long as they take care of their appearance and hygiene.I’m just wondering why you would say that you can’t understand how anyone could be attracted to a man.Brains and a sense of humor are very important,but hygeine is also important.I can’t stand body odor.Blech.I don’t care about what they do in Europe.They have purses and pantyhose for men.Oy vey.
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