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Sperm Donor Ruled to Pay Child Support?

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A New York man who donated his sperm to a co-worker has been ordered to pay child support..

It's not quite as black and white as I first thought it was. The biological father sent Christmas cards and birthday cards to the boy for 18 years signing them "daddy" and later on "dad". He reportedly spoke to him on the phone on seven occasions.

This amounts to a fatherly relationship according to the Judge who has ordered the man to pay child support.

What are your thoughts on this ruling?
phillyharper

5 responses // Sperm Donor Ruled to Pay Child Support?

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    joshuaheller
  • Seems like a flawed decision to me which may be thrown out if it goes higher in the court system. The real "father" in the case is the mother's (female) partner, for whom, presumably, the mother became pregnant and who was co-parent. As described (we don't know for sure if the news report captures all the necessary details) a dozen or so remote contacts over an 18 year period hardly constitutes a parental relationship. If that's all it takes, you can forget about all the "big brother" programs around the country.
    hgrishaver
  • First of all, the timing of this is right on the brink of the child's college experience, if we are considering that the child is eighteen years old as the description suggests. If the woman and her partner are short on cash for college, they should look for other methods of financial aid before hitting up the sperm donor.
    UsusEstTyrannus
  • Definitely a strange case - the donor trying to be involved as "daddy" is the interesting twist. Is there a legal precedence for "establishing a fatherly or paternal relationship"?

    I'm guessing he's bound to run into trouble since "he took the unusual step of allowing his name to appear on the child's birth certificate because he thought it was in the child's "best interests that he would have an identity when he grew older," he said in court documents." Not a smart move.
    jsaraco
  • Sounds like dude was seriously hoodwinked---a delayed reaction form of being hoodwinked, but the good doctor got played for a soft-hearted sucka nonetheless. That's unfortunate...but I CAN see the inherent argument of him either being in a paternal role to the kid or not.
    Adriancito

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