Sperm donor who fathered 550 children ordered to stop

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A Dutch man suspected of fathering more than 550 children worldwide through sperm donations has been ordered to stop.
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www.bbc.co.uk

Sperm donor who fathered 550 children ordered to stop

The Dutch man, 41, could be fined more than $100,000 by a court if he tries to donate again.
www.bbc.co.uk

The man named Jonathan, aged 41, could be fined more than €100,000 (£88,000) if he tries to donate again.

He was banned from donating to fertility clinics in the Netherlands in 2017 after it emerged he had fathered more than 100 children.

But instead of stopping he carried on donating sperm abroad and online.
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A court in The Hague has told him to provide a list of all the clinics he had used and to order them to destroy his sperm.

The man was said to have misled hundreds of women.
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Dutch clinical guidelines state that a donor should not father more than 25 children in 12 families.

But judges said the man had helped produce between 550 and 600 children since he began donating sperm in 2007.
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The donor "deliberately misinformed" prospective parents about the number of children he had already fathered in the past, the district court in The Hague said.

"All these parents are now confronted with the fact that the children in their family are part of a huge kinship network, with hundreds of half-siblings, which they did not choose," it said.

The court said it was "sufficiently plausible" that this has or could have negative psychosocial consequences for the children.
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Sperm donors are told to limit the number of times they offer their services, to reduce the chance that siblings might unknowingly form a couple and have children together.
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~ True Legend ~ said:
I know, it's crazy!
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Does he have to pay child support?

Cracking Up Lol GIF by HULU
 
Varlot said:
There's going to be some unknown brothers and sisters copulating out there! Sperm from a single male is used a maximum of 6 times where I live, and thank God for that!
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Yeah if everyone actually follows the regulations though, lmao. And doesn't mislead the mothers.
 
~ True Legend ~ said:
Yeah if everyone actually follows the regulations though, lmao. And doesn't mislead the mothers.
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That's a prequisite, yeah. One would be well-served by only going to clinics that have their ducks in order, actually following the regulations.
 
Varlot said:
That's a prequisite, yeah. One would be well-served by only going to clinics that have their ducks in order, actually following the regulations.
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I'm not sure how well recording keeping works though. The question is how the mothers managed to get misled in the first place. :confused:
 
~ True Legend ~ said:
I'm not sure how well recording keeping works though. The question is how the mothers managed to get misled in the first place. :confused:
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Not sure how medical record keeping is done in other countries, but here stuff like that goes into a centralized database which other health care professionals have access to.
 
Varlot said:
Not sure how medical record keeping is done in other countries, but here stuff like that goes into a centralized database which other health care professionals have access to.
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Medical info is generally stored centrally in the UK due to the NHS of course. I’m not 100% sure about sperm donations in particular though, whether that’s stored centrally or not. I am aware, though, that the sharing of information among some practices needs some improvement. Without going into detail, I know someone whose sensitive medical records were somehow lost.

Good to know it is in Norway though :)
 
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