As usual we have a bunch of people talking with great authority about a subject on which they are utterly ignorant. T'was always thus...

I'm a sperm donor. “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”. We did things differently there.

It was at a time when clinical implanting and IVF was relatively new. It was also a time when the great AIDS scare had reduced the number of donors.

So, via the ABC, a cry went out from the clinics to healthy men with proven fertility to help desperate couples conceive.

I was such a man. I'd already had two kids and experienced the utter joy of parenthood. My, and my wife's, heart went out to those who couldn't experience the same joy.

I approached a clinic at one of the major maternity hospitals. The process involved six visits over six weeks while abstaining 4 days before each visit. Six donations - 6 potential kids. I know at least 2 of them were successful.

Yes, I was paid - $10 per visit to cover costs of attending. I, and I gather most other men, re-donated the money back to the clinic.

These children were conceived in love and compassion. Compassion from me and my wife toward unfortunate couples. Love from their legal father who agreed to raise and love children with another man's DNA. Love from a mother so desperate to have a child to love that she underwent these less than pleasant procedures.

But too many black hearts here and in the wider community see other motives. It says more about them than about those actually involved in creating a loved child.

I was assured that the child would never know my identity without my concurrence. I have since let the clinic know that I'm open to having my details given to any child that wants to met their natural father. None have done so as yet.

Loving, caring couples successfully conceiving and raising a child born of love is always right, never wrong. It takes a certain darkness of spirit to think otherwise.

mhaze proud of you!
At last a post that tells it like it is, one I support every word in
God, the one I once loved had he been real would cast some in to hell, for miss use of a thing of good

good intentions never made an action right. Many of the young getup clowns sincerely believe they are saving the planet. Some Nazis sincerely believed that the world was better off without Jews. Demonising people and calling them 'black hearts' is a bit racist isn't it?

" Some Nazis sincerely believed that the world was better off without Jews."

Because bringing a baby into the world to be raised by a loving couple is exactly the same as the Holocaust. Fair dinkum, what a dill.

" Demonising people and calling them 'black hearts' is a bit racist isn't it?"

Yes, in exactly the same way as going on a cruise on the Black Sea is racist.

'Yes, in exactly the same way as going on a cruise on the Black Sea is racist.'
ha ha

I have seen young couples wish for a child after years come true and to think some see evil in that?
Fake Christians are evil folk God was about love not hate