Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Why are sperm donors having hundreds of children?
When a woman wants to produce her own child but is unable to achieve a pregnancy with her partner or without a partner, she could use sperm from an unknown donor from a sperm bank, which collects semen, screens, processes, and stores it for future use. Surprisingly, fewer than five in 100 volunteers' sperm meet the qualifications, including sperm count, motility, and shape, in addition to health and genetic testing of the donors. Also, recipients can choose the donor from the list of profiles, which further narrows down the donor candidates. As a result, only a limited number of donors’ sperm is being used for a vast number of pregnancies, and this imbalance is creating dozens, or even hundreds, of half-siblings, without the knowledge of either the mothers or the donors. Imagine the offspring of the same donor meet each other and have children?
Read the article and learn how a small number of donors are creating many children.
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