Sperm donor connects with 19 children he fathered

[TexasTowelie]

In the strange and happy life of Donor 929, emails can mean adventure.

Last week, for example, Donor 929 got an email from a teenage girl in Denver. She included a picture of herself in high school graduation cap and gown. She said she’s considering a history major in college. And there was the other thing.

The email explained, if he is indeed Donor 929, he is her father.

Mike Rubino, an artist from Los Angeles, is known across the United States and beyond as Donor 929. This email contact did not catch him by surprise.

It was the 19th such email or phone call he has received, and there could be more coming. He has 19 photos of smiling children on a shelf in his living room. His sperm has impregnated women in California, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Louisiana, New Mexico, New York, Arkansas, Ohio, Colorado and Maryland. Oh, and the Cayman Islands, a British territory.

Read more: http://www.ocregister.com/2017/06/30/father-of-our-country-los-angeles-sperm-donor-connects-with-19-of-his-children/

[elias7]

1. Sorta kinda cool, but...

Sperm donation is basically a relatively painless and somewhat pleasurable way to make money. It is not an act of selflessness or love, and has nothing to do with fatherdom except in the most literal sense. Glad the kids can close the circle though.

[customerserviceguy]

2. It is good for the children to know their truth

And the widespread availability of direct-to-consumer DNA testing is going to make anonymous sperm donation a thing of the past. Even if the donor never gets himself into a DNA database, eventually members of his family will, and he'll be discovered eventually.

I'm an adoptee who has been using DNA to try to find my ancestry, and one of the people I've worked with is the biological daughter of a sperm donor. Turns out, the man she was told was her father was infertile, and after he and her mom split up, she told the daughter the truth.

She and her mom are French-Canadian (that's how I'm related to her) but her father seems to be from the southeastern United States. Her mother went to an infertility clinic at the English-speaking McGill University in Montreal, and figures that some medical students from the US were part of the donor pool. I told her that she might be half redneck!

[Iggo]

3. Excellent story!

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