Sperm Donors’ Offspring Search their Fathers
What exactly is his relationship to Katie Whitaker, the 21 year- old who contacted him three years ago after discovering he was the sperm donor responsible for her birth?
Is he her father, with all that role entails? If not that, what – a fatherly friend?
And how does he integrate Whitaker and his mother, who have moved to his hometown, into his life with two young sons and his wife, Lisa?
“I am still trying to figure it out,” said Gerardot, who readily admits that coming into contact with Whitaker has “shaken everything up.”
As the first large generation of sperm donor babies comes of age, some are beginning to look for their biological dads, much as adopted have sought out their birth parents. The searches pit young people’s desire to discover their roots against donors’ expectations that their identities never will be disclosed.
Like so many new developments, this one is unfolding in large art on the Internet, where many sperm donor offspring are posting queries about their origins and claiming a right to know their parentage.
(Judith Graham,