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- Posted: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:39:40 +0000
My lesbian partner and I been discussing the idea of using donor sperm to get her pregnant after we were settled and ready for children, and I had heard stories of brothers donating sperm to their infertile sibling to help impregnate their partner.
I have been thinking of asking my brother to donate his sperm to us in the future. He and I are very close, and he shares a good deal of my genes, and looks very similar to me. So, he would be an ideal candidate for a sperm donor.
I wouldn't ask him to be anything but the child's uncle, and we'd never want to ask him for child support or anything of that nature. He'd have a right to be in the child's life, being their uncle and all, where if a random sperm donor would be a stranger. If he has kids with his own partner, they would be cousins/half siblings, which might be kind of weird, I admit, and the awkwardness is something that keeps me a bit wary of actually going through with asking him.
Though honestly, I think asking for sperm is a lot less of a hard thing to ask from a sibling than say, asking your sister to donate eggs or be a surrogate for your child.
Questions for discussion!
Would you ever donate sperm/eggs to help an infertile sibling?
Would you ever ask a sibling to donate genetic material if you were infertile and wanted children?
How do you feel about someone who would do something like that?
Would you judge them?
What if someone you know did it?
Have anyone you known done it?
Do you think it is a good idea?
*delicious mules*
I have been thinking of asking my brother to donate his sperm to us in the future. He and I are very close, and he shares a good deal of my genes, and looks very similar to me. So, he would be an ideal candidate for a sperm donor.
I wouldn't ask him to be anything but the child's uncle, and we'd never want to ask him for child support or anything of that nature. He'd have a right to be in the child's life, being their uncle and all, where if a random sperm donor would be a stranger. If he has kids with his own partner, they would be cousins/half siblings, which might be kind of weird, I admit, and the awkwardness is something that keeps me a bit wary of actually going through with asking him.
Though honestly, I think asking for sperm is a lot less of a hard thing to ask from a sibling than say, asking your sister to donate eggs or be a surrogate for your child.
Questions for discussion!
Would you ever donate sperm/eggs to help an infertile sibling?
Would you ever ask a sibling to donate genetic material if you were infertile and wanted children?
How do you feel about someone who would do something like that?
Would you judge them?
What if someone you know did it?
Have anyone you known done it?
Do you think it is a good idea?
*delicious mules*