Many couples of all types now use IVF. However the children born can undertake a range of things earlier such as sexual activity before adult age, and even potentially a sex change. These are very serious things.

Yet when it comes to IVF parents don't have to tell the child and some people feel isolated as they don't know their 'true' parent who donated. I heard one person on television who was very emotional as they didn't know who was part of creating them.

Should people who donate, be made to disclose and parents tell - plus if a child under 18 be allowed to know the truth?

How will they control inadvertent incest ?

another problem created by secular humanisn. To think we murder around 100000 unwanted babies per year. They could easily be given to the long queue of people lining up for ivf babies. Does not fit with the feminist agenda however.

What does the feminist agenda concist of. Maybe those aborted fetus were deformed or had other serious malfunctions.

Is there any law that says kids can't know their doner fathers until a certain age.

runner,
You make babies sound like a commodity. People can't just take any orphan that happens to be "available". There has to be some affinity with a small child before considering adoption. This normal human behaviour, nothing to do with logic or idealism.

A quick look at websites re Australian laws regarding donated eggs or sperm for IVF use tells us that in NSW there is a Central Register for donors of eggs or sperm, and the children born as a result of these donations.

This register contains info re donors and children involved in IVF , and once the children turn 18 they can access information about their donor parent if they wish.

I think this info should probably be available by the time the kids turn 16 maybe, but no earlier. The children that are told from a very young age that they are 'special' and were the result of their parents desperate need to have a child....and thus are much wanted and loved, apparently do well.

We have the technology to help give children to infertile couples.
I see nothing wrong with that.
Adopted kids seem to do psychologically worse than IVF kids, as at least the IVF children are with their birth mother.

It is no one else's business what infertile couples legally do to have their much wanted babies.

From reading,

IVF clinics by law have to retain the data on the sperm and egg donors that the children can access from age 18.

Similarly they don't give a donor's sperm to more than five families whether conception occurs or not.

Nothing happens at the age of 18.

Just imagine: do youths who move to a different time-zone, or due to the application of daylight-saving become adults earlier or later?

At 18 they become adults, and the issues of child support and custody disappear

Dear SM,

<<At 18 they become adults, and the issues of child support and custody disappear>>

How wonderful, then when they turn 18 they can find out about their biological father and immediately fly eastward to Hawaii where they are still 17 and claim child-support...

Would you accept financial support thus extorted from someone who gave you life as a donation?

As for custody, it's an obvious abuse to force others to live under your custody against their will, once they understand what it means and wish otherwise. I think that the law in Australia allows youth to disconnect from their parents at 16 and live independently, at least it used to be so.

Yuyutsu,

You just don't get it do you. The donors want to be free of any obligation that could possibly arise from their donation. Most want no contact ever, which is probably why the number of donors dropped by more than 50% just after the law requiring the release of information at 18.

If there are no donors, then there are no children.