The title is misleading just as the articles I saw on this story. OK, some doctor from New York gave his sperm to a female resident so she and her “partner” could have a child. Supposedly, the donor was more than a donor though. He sent cards and gifts to the child while he lived near him for a few years. Then, his mother left to Oregon and he only had contact with child a few years over the past decade. The only problem is that the donor had his name placed on the childs (well…he is 18 years old now so I should say young adult) birth certificate.

I think that if you are going to do something like that then let it be anonomous. No contact or anything. But, he tried to play the game both ways so it is his fault that they are coming back to him for child support. The birth certificate says he is the father so that is that.

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Even without genetic evidence, the man’s interactions with the child over the years had a patriarchal nature, said Jeffrey Herbst, an attorney who represents the mother in the lawsuit through a federal agreement called the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.

“It’s still a parental relationship,” Herbst said.

According to the man’s testimony, in the late 1980s he was a physician at the same Nassau County hospital where the child’s mother was a resident. After learning the woman and her female partner wanted to have a baby, the man donated his sperm and the woman gave birth on July 26, 1989. Married at the time, the man agreed that he would not have any rights or benefits in raising the child, but the verbal agreement was never put in writing, according to court documents.

Still, he took the unusual step of allowing his name to appear on the child’s birth certificate because he thought it was in the child’s “best interests that he would have an identity when he grew older,” he said in court documents.

Before the mother, her partner, and the child moved to Oregon in 1993, the man had contact with the child, according to court documents. He also sent the child money, gifts, and cards and letters signed “Dad” or “Daddy,” and spoke to him by phone about seven times in the past 15 years.

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