Courts Always Sided With Known Donors
Long and her partner worried that a known sperm donor might try to take their children away if he changed his mind someday. And neither of them would have any legal way to stop him. “Courts had been known to give them custody rights, calling their gift of sperm an act of parenting. When birth moms died, children were removed from their homes to be placed with men they barely knew. Luckily, we discovered a sperm bank that shipped right to our home,” she explained.