More comments on the Donor 1047 story that I linked a few days ago, over at Family Scholars Blog:
So, yes, it is [the children's] right to know their genetic heritage.
But, as adults, is it *our* right to intentionally create children who must go through such an agonizing search, and who we all know, from the start, will never have the opportunity to grow up with the father who made them?
And there's this great essay---actually just a portion of an essay---wondering about the reason behind the latest string of sperm-donor-as-hero stories:
In all these stories, one common conceit emerges: a cold-cash transaction has been elevated into a gift relationship....
For at least a decade, there has been growing national concern about the trend of “father absence.” …How then can we explain the glorification of the “donor dad”–the most absent of all absent fathers?
The author thinks it's because an increasing number of the customers are women---single women and households of two women---who can provide no father figure at all. Hence the imaginary, maintenance free, trouble free, shadow-father.
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