Tuesday, February 12, 2008

The Oprah Show/The Children of Sperm Donors all grown up and being interviewed!

Wow! Fascinating stuff. Did you see this episode? They interviewed about 4 girls between 18 and 42, who are the products of sperm donors. (One guy too.) They guy said that all he knew about his dad is that he is #42HQ7!

Can you imagine, growing up, only knowing your dad as a series of letters and numbers? Truly the most moving part of this show, is that one girl registered on www.donorsiblingregistry.com and found she had a 1/2 brother. Saw his pic. on the internet, and the brother looked like her twin! He was living in Africa serving in the Peace Corps. The Oprah cameras filmed their reunion, and for the first time in their lives they saw someone who looked like them. They are very very similar in many ways, both are fluent in French even though they both grew up in the U.S.

The Oprah show also interviewed a handful of donor males. One guy determined that he could have up to 200 children! O' asked him if he'd be open to meeting them. He said, YES, EVERY LAST ONE!

One of the other donor men said that the only kids he considers his own are the ones that live in his home, however he'd be open to contact if his "kids" contacted him.

One girl found her "donor dad" and they are now close.

Of course you have the whole range of turnouts with the whole range of human traits and levels of closed and/or open ness.

2 comments:

Big Yellow Forehead said...

Wow! That's amazing. I'm going to have to check that out.

elana r. snyder said...

The issues that children of donor parents face are extremely similar to the issues that adult adoptees face