A sperm donor is looking for his 96 biological children

a American sperm donor is searching for He helped father 96 childrenand so far found 25with the cooperation of their respective families.

His story is being told this Monday by the Wall Street Journal, who interviewed Dylan Stone-Miller, a 32-year-old software engineer who happened to become a donor when he was 20, to be able to pay with the money the sperm bank gave him ($100 per visit) a fine for driving under the influence of alcohol.

After he got divorced three years ago, he quit his job and He went looking for his biological children.

However, It was not Stone-Miller who started this search, but one of the mothers that he had fathered a girl with the young man’s sperm and that he had found it by combining the scant information that the sperm bank and social networks gave him.

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Stone-Miller, after having given explicit permission to the bank to share your data, He then opened a Facebook account where he invited all the families of “his” biological children to join.and about twenty of them immediately agreed, mostly women alone or married to other women.

The donor has even started a visiting program with some children, who plays a difficult role because the mothers forbid him to identify himself as the children’s “father”, which does not convince him; In addition, it strives to keep contact with them indefinitely.

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The newspaper emphasizes that the anonymity with which pregnancies were previously treated via sperm banks is disappearing thanks to the much lower prices of DNA tests, the ease that the internet offers to follow people’s lives and the disappearance of taboos about this.

In fact, the paper recalls that more than a million Americans have been conceived through in vitro fertilization processes, and a significant portion of them—no data is available—were conceived with sperm obtained from a bank. (JO)

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