Family Scholars Blog reports on an interesting development. All by himself, a fifteen-year-old boy tracked down his own Very Special Man who fifteen years earlier had masturbated into a cup for money:
By submitting a DNA sample to a commercial genetic database service designed to help people draw their family tree, the youth found a crucial clue that quickly enabled him to track down his long-sought parent.
“I was stunned,” said Wendy Kramer, whose online registry for children trying to find anonymous donors of sperm or egg helped lead the teenager to his father. “This had never been done before. No one knew you could get a DNA test and find your donor.”
The people who freeze and thaw ejaculate for money are, predictably, offended:
“I think it’s unethical. It’s an invasion of the donor’s privacy and a breach of contract,” said Cappy M. Rothman of the California Cryobank of Los Angeles, another large sperm bank. “If we were to expose our donors to being known, we would have many fewer donors.”
A breach of contract?! Who breached the contract? The child certainly didn't sign one!
FSB's take on that: "How convenient that the ethical thing to do is also the thing that least interfers with your ability to make a profit!"
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