floatinglili,
The issue you mentioned is important, and in Canada it was partially addressed here.

"Canadian court bans anonymous sperm and egg donation"

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110527/full/news.2011.329.html

Canada has only 33 men donating sperm, and those numbers are likely to decline to zero with this court ruling, as the sperm donor could be made to pay child support.

However, knowing the identity of the father is only 1 issue amongst many surrounding IVF.

These issues are not being addressed by the homosexual marriage lobby groups, and will have to be left to heterosexual men and women to sort out, more likely than not.

Kids need both a father and a mother - time and again my high school students who have one of these missing at home are not secure at all. Same-sex family structures don't provide balanced gender modelling for kids. The further we travel away from the Christian-Judeo model of family life, the less practical and beneficial alternative family structure models are for families. This principle equally applies to traditional family structures.

Kids need both a father and a mother - time and again my high school students who have one of these missing at home are not secure at all.
Posted by TAC, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 6:17:54 PM

How much is that a self-fulfilling prophecy in that those kids are made to feel that is an issue? e.g. Oh, you poor thing! (or similar).

"The further we travel away from the Christian-Judeo model of family life, the less practical and beneficial alternative family structure models are for families."

Who says? What about the extended family models common in Mediterranean families??

Well Mcreal, you could be right, there could be an element of self-fulfilling prophecy creating insecurity for kids from single sex homes (read that as single parent); but in my experience, the kids come to you insecure before there is a chance to have the feeling cultured into them. What really insecure kids usually have in common is a lack of both genders providing functional role modelling at home.
The Judeo-Christian family model is a Mediterraneum model, so we seem to agree.

McReal,
Mediterranean families have both genders present in the family home and the children know who are their mother and father. Such has no resemblence to same sex homes, where children may not know one gender parent.