Sperm donor madness

It's a sad, sick world we live in:

One Sperm Donor, 150 Offspring

By JACQUELINE MROZ

Published: September 5, 2011

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.

DATA KEEPER Wendy Kramer, who had
her son through a donor, started a registry to help families learn about
a child's half siblings.

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.
Over the years, she watched the number of children in her son's group
grow.

And grow.

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," said Ms. Daily, 48, a
social worker in the Washington area who sometimes vacations with other
families in her son's group.

As more women choose to have babies on their own, and the number of children born through artificial insemination
increases, outsize groups of donor siblings are starting to appear.
While Ms. Daily's group is among the largest, many others comprising 50
or more half siblings are cropping up on Web sites and in chat groups,
where sperm donors are tagged with unique identifying numbers.

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