Hello Folks
This is scheduled to be shown next week on UK TV however may be on interest to both donors and recipients.
I guess it can be watched online also.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sperm-donor-unknown
Twenty-year-old JoEllen Marsh has always known her family wasn't like other families. She grew up in Pennsylvania with two mothers and a burning curiosity to know more about her anonymous donor father.
When JoEllen discovers a unique online registry that connects donor-conceived children, she tracks down a half-sister in New York. The New York Times picks up the story, and, over time, 12 more half-siblings emerge across the United States.
The New York Times article also falls into the hands of Jeffrey Harrison, living alone with four dogs and a pigeon in a broken-down RV in a Venice Beach car park. In the 1980s, Jeffrey supplemented his meagre incoming by becoming a sperm donor at California Cryobank.
This is a uniquely 21st-century story. The children and their donor dad are reunited as much by modern technology as by old-fashioned coincidence. While the siblings seem to take their ever-expanding family in their stride, Jeffrey is more apprehensive about meeting some of his biological children for the first time.
Funny, moving and surprising, Sperm Donor Unknown raises intriguing questions about our understanding of parenthood, and the strange power of our genetic connections.
Regards
James
Donor - Scotland UK.
This is scheduled to be shown next week on UK TV however may be on interest to both donors and recipients.
I guess it can be watched online also.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sperm-donor-unknown
Twenty-year-old JoEllen Marsh has always known her family wasn't like other families. She grew up in Pennsylvania with two mothers and a burning curiosity to know more about her anonymous donor father.
When JoEllen discovers a unique online registry that connects donor-conceived children, she tracks down a half-sister in New York. The New York Times picks up the story, and, over time, 12 more half-siblings emerge across the United States.
The New York Times article also falls into the hands of Jeffrey Harrison, living alone with four dogs and a pigeon in a broken-down RV in a Venice Beach car park. In the 1980s, Jeffrey supplemented his meagre incoming by becoming a sperm donor at California Cryobank.
This is a uniquely 21st-century story. The children and their donor dad are reunited as much by modern technology as by old-fashioned coincidence. While the siblings seem to take their ever-expanding family in their stride, Jeffrey is more apprehensive about meeting some of his biological children for the first time.
Funny, moving and surprising, Sperm Donor Unknown raises intriguing questions about our understanding of parenthood, and the strange power of our genetic connections.
Regards
James
Donor - Scotland UK.
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