The day after Stephanie Blessing learned she had been conceived with the assistance of a sperm donor and that the man she knew and loved as her father for 32 years was not her father, she went into shock. She remembers sitting in her rocking chair, staring into space. It was so bad, her husband Read more
Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor to conceive a baby seven years ago and they hoped that one day their son would get to know some of his half-siblings – an extended family of sorts for modern times.
So Ms Daily searched a web-based registry for other children fathered by the same donor and helped to create an online group to track them.
Today there are 150 children, all conceived with sperm from one donor, in this group of half-siblings, and more are on the way. ”It’s wild when we see them all together – they all look alike,” Ms Daily, 48, a social worker, said.
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