What Does it Mean to be a Sperm Donor? - Comments

@ butterflywings16
But they donated their sperm/egg for people who can't conceive children naturally. Once they've donated it, it's no longer theirs to stake a claim over. It's why I don't believe that they should be able to get to know the child unless the child wanted to get to know them when they hit eighteen.

I think that the person whose sperm or egg it was should have the right to at least get to know their 'child'. I mean they did help create.

It wouldn't be much more confusing than having divorced parents with joint custody or visitation rights though. And some of those can get very confusing XD

@ Rayus
The fact that it'd complicate things. A child has one set of parents is what happens now, and those parents are the ones who raise the child despite having a donated sperm/egg that helped conceive the child. Bringing the biological parents into the equation could quite possibly make the child confused as to who's their actual parents, the ones who raised them or the ones who they are biologically related to. The anonymity until the child is 18 is the better way because then they're an adult and understand that the ones who raised them are their parents and the ones they are biologically related to aren't.

So what would be so bad about the biological parent wanting to be involved in the child's life?