NYT - Does 'Sperm Donor' mean Dad?

wanked_in_space · 2014-05-03T15:30:37+00:00

"A woman's right to be a single mother?"

What world am I living on?

cishet · 2014-05-03T16:03:03+00:00

I love how easy it is to be deemed the father for child support purposes, even if you never had a relationship with the child and have no genetic connection. This guy has both the relationship AND the genetic connection, but a court says he's not a father. Unbelievable.

2014-05-03T15:40:59+00:00

Does 'Sperm Donor' mean Dad?

tl;dr: only if it suits the woman

scooterdust · 2014-05-03T15:46:10+00:00

It looks like he had notarized and signed proof of his intent to claim his parental rights. Doesn't that make it a legally binding document? If so, extenuating circumstances apply. She won't be able to prove that he is undeserving of his parental rights. It looks like denying his parental rights became her intention after finding this loophole, not from the very beginning. If the relationship history is demonstrated to not have gone through conflict where denying his parental rights is the appropriate action, the case will most likely be dismissed or the judge will order shared custody.

Roddy0608 · 2014-05-03T19:56:51+00:00

Mr. Patric said that he played a parental role (“I took him to get circumcised when he was 8 days old”)

For fuck's sake.

Mitschu · 2014-05-03T17:01:24+00:00

But what will Gus someday think of Mr. Patric’s decision to speak abrasively about Ms. Schreiber? “I don’t say negative things about her,” Mr. Patric said.

Who else read this as "But has he stopped beating his wife?"

chocoboat · 2014-05-04T05:57:06+00:00

A sperm donor has absolutely no right to seek custody of a child.

Neither does any man that the single mother is dating, even if he fully takes on a parental role. A man cannot get custody of a single mother's child unless she explicitly gives it to him, by marrying him or by allowing him to become an adoptive parent.

It is irrelevant that the sperm donor and the guy Mom was dating happen to be the same person. This man has a very weak case.

xNOM · 2014-05-03T17:47:11+00:00

Sperm donors are truly idiots. I can think of thousands of better ways to earn a little extra cash.

Title	NYT - Does 'Sperm Donor' mean Dad?
Author	tatonnement
Upvotes	56
Comments	27
Date	May 3, 2014 2:35 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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