Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support

Reuters ^ | 12/9/01

[lowbridge]

Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support - Report

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A court in Sweden has ruled that a man who donated sperm for artificial insemination, enabling a lesbian couple to have three children, must pay child support after the two women separated, a Swedish newspaper reported on Sunday.

The regional daily Nerikes Allehanda said on its Internet Web site a county court ruled that the man was undoubtedly the children's biological father and hence obliged to pay child support of $265 per month after the women's 10-year relationship broke up.

The verdict poses a legal dilemma, however, because under Swedish law a sperm donor is not regarded as the legal parent of children conceived with the help of his semen.

Sperm donors, however, are normally strictly anonymous, while in this case the man was a friend of the couple and his identity as the father is in no doubt.

The man has appealed.

[lowbridge]

Crazy world

[Doctor Doom]

Watch where you dispose of old tissues.

[Principled]

Kind of reminds me of the Taliban "calling time out" on the war.

[TruthWillWin]

Tell me this is a joke, right?

[Lancey Howard]

A court in Sweden has ruled that a man who donated sperm for artificial insemination, enabling a lesbian couple to have three children, must pay child support after the two women separated,

LOL !!! Great post!

And Sweden is exactly the kind of country the liberal Democrats think the U.S. should emulate, LOL.

[lowbridge]

Watch where you dispose of old tissues.

I don't use them.

I wipe my nose on my sleeve.

I'm a great catch.

[Cowboy Bob]

This is great!

Didn't Neal Young make a contribution a few years back? It would be sad to see the same thing happen to him!

[etcetera]

More stupidity from the leftist socialists.

[tbeatty]

And Sweden is exactly the kind of country the liberal Democrats think the U.S. should emulate, LOL.

The sad part is the liberals would see nothing wrong with this ruling. In Fact, they probably think men should be legally obligated to donate sperm and child support to any lesbian couple that wants it.

[Teacher317]

Lib-think^TM: Men must be made to pay, no matter what. Straight, white, heterosexual males are the cause of all suffering in the world so every opportunity that arises to punish them simply MUST be exploited!

[mercy]

Strictly hypothetically speaking .... it might be possible that shooting a judge could be hypothetically justified in certain circumstances.

[Orblivion]

Don't laugh, a couple more decades of Liberal Democrat rule in America and we'll be right there with them.

[lowbridge]

Er. I mean when you blow your pope's nose.

No problem, I don't have a Pope.

I got a Rabbi though.

[gcruse]

I wipe my nose on my sleeve.
I'm a great catch.

Hardly.  That is uncivilized. You must
do as I do; to wit, blow your nose into
a little piece of cloth and carry it around'
with you all day.

[Paleo Conservative]

I thought she already had two parents.

[GussiedUp]

Didn't Neal Young make a contribution a few years back? It would be sad to see the same thing happen to him!

Didn't Crosby of Crosby Stills Nash and YOung give sperm for Melissa Ethridge & girlfriend's baby????

[meyer]

I got a Rabbi though

LOL!! This is a crazy verdict. At first read, I thought it was something out of California or Seattle.

Note to self: Do NOT under any circumstances donate sperm.

[Mercat]

Real case, friend of mine is national expert in child support issues and uses this story in her seminars. Young intern at a hospital is pulled into a closet by a busty nurse who puts a condom on his and blows him. Ten months later, he's sued for child support.