“Report: Sperm-donor offspring support idea, but…” Washington Times 6/1/10

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Washington Times
6/1/10
Report: Sperm-donor offspring support idea
But they also have concerns about father, half-siblings
By Cheryl Wetzstein

Many adults born from a sperm donor constantly look for their "dads" and worry about dating someone who is a biological sibling. Ten percent say they felt like a "freak of nature."

Still, 61 percent of sperm-donor-conceived adults support the practice of assisted reproduction — and 20 percent have already donated their own sperm or eggs or been a surrogate mother.

These findings, released May 31 by the Commission on Parenthood’s Future at the Institute for American Values, are intended to start a national conversation about the ethics, meaning and practice of donor conception.

"Many people think that because these young people resulted from wanted pregnancies, how they were conceived doesn’t matter to them," said Elizabeth Marquardt, co-author of the report, "My Daddy’s Name Is Donor: A New Study of Young Adults Conceived Through Sperm Donation."

But many of these adults say they are troubled by the secrecy around their births. The "half-siblings" issue alone is huge, said study researcher Karen Clark, whose father is a sperm donor.

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