Sperm donor dad bonds with the kids he never knew he had
Family ties are more than a bit ambiguous for children conceived with the help of a sperm donor. It used to be donors were strictly anonymous, but as more children sought information about their biological parents, a registry was created for the purpose of making life-changing connections. Mark Strassmann meets with Todd Whitehurst, a donor dad, during his reunion with 8 of his 22 children.
Thats crazy you can end up marrying your own sibling
omg i never thought of that. Don’t wanna offend anyone but science has proved that consanguineous marriage results into birth defects and set a chain of weakening of human race at its climax. Such children should either marry child conceived of both parents or match and cross check donors if marrying a child born of donor. Banks and fertility clinics should maintain registry which is available to these children and this should be assured by strict regulation/laws known as ‘Rights of Donor Children & preservation of Human Genetic health Act’. Do you agree?
That’s why donors have an id number, and mothers are encouraged to tell their kids about how they were conceived. That way incest can be avoided.
Dulce Ruiz It happens….Its nothing new. They eventually find out. Its already happened a couple times in my family….. smh. but theres many families who go thru this then find out… and half or some don’t want a change… the other half or most of the people immediately break things off because its just gross… but incess is more common than you think…. My nanny/nana(spanish) has this family whose kids shes helped raise other than me and my siblings and those kids parents are cousins. they are not well. they are sick.. the girl and only the girl came out normal but she could keep bleeding out. but is not as bad as her brothers who can all bleed and never stop. Thats why they decided to adopt their last one from a teenager. the kid they adopted looks like their daught too its soo wierd haha the mother is dark and sonehow the baby came out light. i think they have an open adoption because i have actually met the mom. she is young. more like was because shes my age and now im old(enough) and have my own.
+Gigi ItzMe Did they divorce once they found out?
Saving/me no… lol. they knew, they stayed married. but they have to adopt because their kids kept dying from bleeding out(which i don’t really know much about it just that the kids are mentally ill). they started adopting because they have lost their first kids(rip). thats all they can do. help teens by taking in their babies so they dont have to raise them in shame. the biological mama comes and helps out to babysit is all she can do. babysit. she is a low key loving bio-mother she just made her mistakes.
She’s just look a like her daddy. Her smile, her face. Amazing.
Don’t say daddy ever again
Icee Vice ikr tf
sherlock
You can see the similarities
Provocateur Nobody cares…
“We all have the innate feeling to want to know where we came from”. That broke my heart. I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t have a clue who my dad was.
Before getting with a guy ask if he donated sperm.
no, ask if his FATHER was a donor.
Saving/me why is that important?
+Your Majesty so that the individuals dating dont end up to be siblings
Saving/me
i saw u in a video
where were u hmm0
Saving/me exactly
What a great meeting! So glad the donor father was willing to meet the kids, must be a sincerely great guy. 🙂
Massive respect for this man
“Hopefully they’re not strange and antisocial looking down or anything”
What a nice guy! Heart of gold
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wat was crazy was he and the daughter with the people hair were both kinda like that
This database is soo important so that siblings don’t end up marrying each others.
There nothing wrong if u sex with ur sebling in real life bro…. but in our religion its illegal…I mean nothing bad will happen at all if they Sex to each other and have a baby….
@MR_Sun _Wu_Kong_TV medically it’s wrong because you can produce offsprings without multiple deformities and genetic diseases
@Aegle so don’t produce offspring? And yeah, the database will help with that.
Aegle that’s a myth.Nothing genetic happens to siblings creating children of there own.Only when it’s a repeated process it can affect latter generations.
I could never do this… I would break knowing someone else has my kids
I would be glad if I knew someone is willing to take care of my kids lol
I’d rather someone else take care of my kids lmao Spread my genes & do no work. My kind of parenting.
In all seriousness I’d never donate sperm, directly or indirectly. Too many humans the way it is.
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@Pap Papinskie ??? I’d donate I don’t care
@TonyX448 ya…
What if you meet you your love life, and you produce kids. Then later you found out you were siblings. The gene pool is mess up.
+TiMeSpLiT- -TeR My mother and her twin were adopted at age 4. Because they were adopted in the area they were born, the adoptive family knew the birth family but as my mom began liking boys and dating, she was quick to let her mother know so she could tell if there was a familial relationship. I think as long as adoptive/sperm donor/egg donor families are honest with their children, there would not be many problems. However, I am well aware that many will never tell their children the truth so it leaves many in a not so good situation.
There was an actual incident like that, I’m pretty sure I read of it in the past.
+TiMeSpLiT- -TeR Yeah, I can definitely see this being where the problem comes into place. I’m thinking laws will have to change, so that IVF babies will need to show a donor number on the birth certificate somewhere. It won’t prevent all issues, but if parents are up front with their kids, it should prevent most issues.
And that’s the problem–many parents are NOT honest with the children, which is the way the Industry wants it to be.
TiMeSpLiT- -TeR In some countries it is called the Royal Family.
What a cool guy! It’s cool how he actually cares about his doner kids
Wow. What a great video. Says a lot about the donor dad. He has an amazing heart. God bless him
This just proves that we are capable of love, compassion, and bonding
theyre all kids to be proud of. outgoing friendly and smart. all so similar personality wise.
This is mad but fair play to the guy for being very open and willing to meet with the donor kids
This can go so wrong, imagine you have around 200 half siblings.
And the odds of marrying a sibling is so high.
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If you have the same father your not half your whole siblings
You know the chances of that are infinitely small. All these children would not have existed if it weren’t for this donation program.
That’s why it’s supposed to be limited
I find it amazing – many of donor kids have only a mother, usualy they are the only child. Isn’t that amazing for them to find out they have huge “family” and lot of siblings? Well 200 kids is maybe too much, but 22 seems great 🙂
natansalda Not if your having over 1000 kids. Each donation can have up to 22 babies. Up to 8000 babies….No that’s insane..
natansalda: NO, they aren’t family by any stretch, they merely share similar DNA strands in their physical makeup.
CaneFu That’s still family. It’s like saying your died sister isn’t your sister because you haven’t seen her. In this case they can form relationships with their “died sisters” which is lucky.
CaneFu I don’t think it’s up to you to decide what makes them family. It’s up the members to decide individually
NO, they aren’t family and wtf is a “died sister”?
If the donor father is comfortable with it, there’s no reason a person can’t meet and thank this person who helped create them.
Brianna Gordy you added the word father which he is not. he is only a donor. he signed his title away before he made a girl conceive
Gigi ItzMe I’m sorry but he is their father. He IS their biological father. The old saying” anyone can be a father but it takes a man to be a daddy.
Brianna Gordy the only positive comment. LIKES!
+Brianna Gordy today it is not wise to be an sperm donor, because legislation is changing fast and drastically on this matter. Like, if you die, your donor children may inherit and not your more distant relatives. (possiblity in germany)
Thank you for creating me ?
I loved how he said he loves them as an uncle would. I feel like that’s a great response! He’s not being disrespectful in any way of the parents that did raise them, and yet, he’s not just up and leaving their lives now that he knows who they are and they have met. That’s very sweet!
What a mad lad. Works for Google, has apple products.
With Microsoft Office Suit
So, all apple devices use Samsung’s cpu ?♂️
@mxdanger I just checked with my buddy who’s a hardware specialist at Apple. Apple stopped using Samsung’s cpu about 5 years ago, but Samsung now manufacture Apple’s new oled iphone displays lol, so my comparison still works man.
Google is on Apple products.
Funny