";s:4:"text";s:2672:"He approached Jeff with a peculiar request.
It afforded legal paternity rights to the husbands of women who birthed children from donor sperm.
He was 21, needed the money, and figured it would make a good pickup line at the bars in Greenwich Village.The sperm bank had requested some basics: height, weight, eye color, race, religion, education. It was Colin.He had been in touch with their biological father, a man named Jeff Johnson, who lived in California.
“Will you send me your genome?” Jeff complied.
She hoped that Denise could use it to track down her biological father.But Denise shrugged it off.
)Armed with this new-found information, Amy set out to track down Johnson.
She handed Denise the receipt from the clinic—for a couple hundred dollars—and a clipping from the Donor Sibling Registry, an organization that launched in 2000 to connect offspring to their donors and siblings.
For all she knew, he could be a total cad.After Elizabeth recalled the fertility doctor’s name, Amy started cold-calling clinics in Michigan. The health portion of the application comprised half a page: blood type, causes of immediate family members’ deaths, a checklist of about a dozen medical conditions, including one simply labeled “mental disorders.” He checked a couple lines next to hay fever and nonspecified eye disorders.
“The only person who can screw that up,” or at least that illusion, “is me.”The message struck Denise as fishy, and when she navigated to the Genographic Project’s website to investigate, she found no record of the woman. (The Michigan fertility clinic has since closed, and Idant closed for good around 2015 after multiple lawsuits and a health-code-related suspension. The following summer, she gave birth to a girl.
If they’re unconnected to anyone on your known parent’s side, they’re probably related to your unknown parent. When he reaches the time frame that the birth parent was likely born, he begins generating candidates.