"My Daddy's Name is Donor"

It seems as if there are some unanticipated consequences of artificial insemination involving donated sperm.

http://familyscholars.org/my-daddys-name-is-donor-2/ My Daddy’s Name is Donor: A New Study of Young Adults Conceived through Sperm Donation

A Report Released Internationally by the Commission on Parenthood’s Future

Elizabeth Marquardt, Norval D. Glenn, and Karen Clark, Co-Investigators

From the http://www.familyscholars.org/assets/Donor_summ_findings.pdf: Executive Summary -

This study is the first effort to learn about the identity, kinship, wellbeing,

and social justice experiences of young adults who were conceived

through sperm donation. The survey research firm Abt SRBI of New York

City fielded our survey through a web-based panel that includes more than

a million households across the United States. Through this method we

assembled a representative sample of 485 adults between the ages of 18

and 45 years old who said their mother used a sperm donor to conceive

them. We also assembled comparison groups of 562 young adults who

were adopted as infants and 563 young adults who were raised by their

biological parents.

We learned that, on average, young adults conceived through sperm

donation are hurting more, are more confused, and feel more isolated from

their families. They fare worse than their peers raised by biological parents

on important outcomes such as depression, delinquency and substance

abuse. Nearly two-thirds agree, “My sperm donor is half of who I am.”

Nearly half are disturbed that money was involved in their conception.

More than half say that when they see someone who resembles them they

wonder if they are related. Almost as many say they have feared being

attracted to or having sexual relations with someone to whom they are

unknowingly related. Approximately two-thirds affirm the right of donor

offspring to know the truth about their origins. And about half of donor

offspring have concerns about or serious objections to donor conception

itself, even when parents tell their children the truth.