Mr. Harrison had been thinking about getting in touch since reading in an article in The New York Times 15 months ago that two teenagers whose mothers had used his sperm to conceive were looking for him.

Since there is not much etiquette to refer to for sperm donors, this man arbitrarily picked Valentine's Day to announce himself whose mothers had used his sperm to conceive. Hmmm, I do not quite know what to think of that! Apparently, he did announce himself to children that he already knew wanted to know his identity.

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The article acknowledges and validates that natural parents matter to the child and that the long term emotional impact on the donor babies is unknown but many like adoption triad members are asking the age old question of why.

The article also questions what happens when adult rights clash with children’s needs and how these conflicts should be resolved. A study is underway called The Revolution in Parenthood: The Emerging Global Clash Between Adult Rights and Children’s Needs. She argument is that in the rush to redefine parenthood and... more

This article speaks of the first generation of sperm donor babies who are now adults. Although sperm donor babies are not products of adoption, many of them are interested in finding the men who donated their sperm for their very existence. I think that these people who are now adults puts a whole different spin on search and reunion.

The article starts out talking about a female named Rebecca who was a sperm donor baby who is... more

As closed adoptions continue to fade out of favor, and medical science continues to progress, adoption reunions will take on some whole new dimensions in the future. For some, these new reunions are already occurring. I believe these new reunions to be only a beginning of a whole new trend in the future for adoption reunions.

The new reunions that I refer to are those between siblings of sperm donors, and in some case involving the sperm donors themselves. In past decades, men who became sperm donors were mostly anonymous donors, with no intention of ever meeting the children created... more