Its rather old fashioned to be honest isnt it. Before or around the time I was born, if a man could not get his wife with child, sometimes a close friend would 'donate' one way or another. Of course, now it seems you can buy one if you want one.
What if your children - assuming you fathered more than one, met up and did the dirty? I am taking it you would not be wanting contact - but would you feel any need to step up if the childs mother died - say during child birth. Would you keep it or sell it op?
I know if I were looking for a dog, I would want one with a family history of good health and long life - why bring into this world something that will go blind early, or like the poor wee cavalier have a brain that is too big for its skull and headaches its life long, and if I wanted a ridgeback - I would avoid the lines with clear spina bifida - I would not want to be responsible for something coming into this world with a life of pain.
Having said that, do you think Prince William would not have prefered to miss out on the male pattern baldness? Of course, in that case it was the dam that was the donor/carrier.
What of the rights of your potential resultant living being. Do they have a right to know where they come from, their family history, their tree? I am sure thats something that adoptive parents consider and face.
Sometimes - you cant even give stuff away. There is usualy a reason
|