Published: 6 Feb 13 17:45 CET | Print version
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A German court on Wednesday gave a 22-year-old woman whose father was an anonymous sperm donor, the legal right to find out who he was, but the doctor responsible said he no longer had the details.
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Does it sounds like that germans are being/becommin more infertile..........
not capable of reproducing the next genereations....
Germans need to look on this...infertility problem otherwise ..we know what happens to our Germany Guess what?
Perhaps the idea that someday their child's inherent and often desperate psychological desire for their father might have some bearing on their decision. Without denigrating those whose personal situations have led to single parenting, it is still clear from over forty years of evidential studies that the best family arrangement for children is a married mother and father.
1) In the USA, this happens with women ending their child-bearing years without a satisfactory husband/father prospect. They are tight for time
2) Also, non-heterosexual female couples need a sperm donor. They have enough parenting folks, just no sperm.
I could see the potential for #1 being on public welfare, but intentional pregnancies of unmarried older-women aren't a leading cause of that.
Feminism aside, every human is entiotled to know who their father was, and the gene pool from that line.
Grown women who never consider the rights of such offspring are the most selfish self centred individuals the sun ever set on, all it's about is ME, ME, ME, at no stage is any credence given to the childs wishes/rights when they're grown up.
This situation MUST cease. Records MUST be kept so all such births can find where they come from.