Swedish Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support

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Sperm Donor Must Pay Child Support - Report
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A court in Sweden has ruled that a man who donated sperm for artificial insemination, enabling a lesbian couple to have three children, must pay child support after the two women separated, a Swedish newspaper reported on Sunday.

The regional daily Nerikes Allehanda said on its Internet Web site a county court ruled that the man was undoubtedly the children's biological father and hence obliged to pay child support of $265 per month after the women's 10-year relationship broke up.

The verdict poses a legal dilemma, however, because under Swedish law a sperm donor is not regarded as the legal parent of children conceived with the help of his semen.

Sperm donors, however, are normally strictly anonymous, while in this case the man was a friend of the couple and his identity as the father is in no doubt.

The man has appealed.


 

b0mbrman

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Yeah, well this is pretty unbelievable. I'm sure plenty of people will find arguments as to why he should though.
 

gopunk

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recockulous.

what's scary is that we're well on our way to the same thing happening here. did you know that some women have been able to legally get the names of the men who donated the sperm? it's sickening.
 

Shantanu

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The Swedish government is extremely left-wing, but in a laughable, idiotic way. I read a story in US News last year, that some women in the Swedish legislature were leading a movement to make it illegal for men to pee standing up, because such an act was degrading and unfair to women.

Hot chicks though. Maybe we could setup an program to send our Ted Kennedys and Hillary Clintons over there in exchange for the Swedish Bikini Team.
 

AMDPwred

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What the hell! I can't believe something like that could even hold up in court.
 

MrCodeDude

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That is messed up. The guy tries to help women have children and he has to pay child support?
-- mrcodedude
 

Noriaki

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Makes me think of that episode of Spin City, where that woman is holding Mike's sperm "hostage".

Now I understand why he wanted them back so badly.


I think I'll refrain from donating sperm in the future....
 

arigato

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You would think there would be some sort of stipulation in the contract that he would not be responsible for supporting the children should the couple break up. Oh well, guess he's learned that helping friends out isn't always a good thing. This didn't happen with Melissa Ethridge and her ex.
 

montanafan

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<< under Swedish law a sperm donor is not regarded as the legal parent of children conceived with the help of his semen. >>



If this is the law in Sweden, then legally, I don't see how the guy can be held responsible for child-support.

Morally though, do you honestly believe that he should feel no responsibility for his own child?

 

yakko

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<< Morally though, do you honestly believe that he should feel no responsibility for his own child? >>

No.
 

b0mbrman

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Morally though, do you honestly believe that he should feel no responsibility for his own child?

Not any more than he should have felt before the two lesbians broke up...
 

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argh that sucks, the poor guy probably did it cuz they promised to let him watch em make out or something


as for leftwing, you nut, if they are so left wing why do they have a bikini team. then again if they were right wing they'd be wearing burkas.
 

montanafan

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I agree that he should have felt that he should bear no legal responsibility for the child because that's what the law says there, but as a man, as a human being, shouldn't he care what happens to the child?

It's like when a woman gives a child up for adoption. If she never thought about that child or wondered what it's life was like, wouldn't you think that there was something wrong with her?
 

gopunk

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Morally though, do you honestly believe that he should feel no responsibility for his own child?

absolutely not, and the key is in the wording you used. it's not his own child. it is the two lesbians' child. if everybody agreed that his sole role was to donate sperm, then NO, he should not be responsible. those two b!tches should burn in hell.
 

gopunk

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I agree that he should have felt that he should bear no legal responsibility for the child because that's what the law says there, but as a man, as a human being, shouldn't he care what happens to the child?

he should care as much as the next person would. are you willing to pay the child support? if not, then don't expect it of him.
 

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<< Why is he paying child support instead of the OTHER WOMAN? >>

When two people separate, apparently, theres always the man to blame :eek:
 

montanafan

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<< absolutely not, and the key is in the wording you used. it's not his own child. it is the two lesbians' child. >>



But how can you say it's not his child? It has 46 chromosomes containing the genetic material that makes the child who it is and half of them came from him. Can you really ignore that fact?

It's this whole idea of purposely creating a child and then expecting to not have to bear any responsibility for it that bothers me.

And yes, I agree that the other woman should be the one to pay child support, but I still think he has a moral responsibility in all of this and shouldn't expect to just be able to wash his hands of it. So to speak. :)