What it’s like to have a sperm donor
dad — and meet your 35 siblings
New York Post,
by
Eric Spitznagel
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/13/2022 10:03:55 AM
It was September 2007 when Chrysta Bilton first learned she had some step-siblings she didn’t know about. Bilton was 23, a recent graduate of Barnard College, and had just moved home to live with her mother, Debra, in Los Angeles. She’d barely unpacked when her mother sat her down with her younger sister Kaitlyn. “I found out that your father was secretly a sperm donor,” Debra explained. “You have a few biological brothers and sisters spread out across the United States.”
“The way my mother had said ‘a few’ made it sound like there could be a whole lot more,” Bilton writes in her new memoir,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WinterParker 8/13/2022 10:18:07 AM (No. 1247022)
Maybe some of her 35 siblings are great people, but her mother and father are not.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/13/2022 10:27:33 AM (No. 1247027)
Reminds me of a folk song. Young guy dating young girls, and daddy keeps telling him he can't date that girl because daddy fathered her too. This happens a number of times, and the song finally ends with mother pulling him (the young guy) aside and telling him not to worry because daddy really isn't his father.
Also remember hearing a story where the children learned that daddy have sired many children, and the only way to assure they weren't dating a brother or sister was to move to a place daddy had never been.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MDConservative 8/13/2022 10:43:20 AM (No. 1247038)
Whatever...everyone appears alive and healthy. What more do people want? Maybe mom and dad can visit Jerry Springer.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Quigley 8/13/2022 10:49:57 AM (No. 1247051)
The parents - especially the father - are mentally ill.
Genghis Khan was apparently quite prolific, as were Adam and Eve.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ControlFreak 8/13/2022 11:01:01 AM (No. 1247059)
FTA ‘ She decided to host a ‘reunion’ at her home in Los Angeles, inviting all of her 26 step-sisters — all of Harrison’s children (that they knew of) were girls — to meet in person and get to know each other.’
Wouldn’t they be ‘half’ siblings rather than step siblings since they shared the same father?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lftrn97 8/13/2022 11:38:07 AM (No. 1247091)
Half of a certain component of births have a sperm donor and no father.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/13/2022 11:38:51 AM (No. 1247092)
Sperm donor and Dad are not the same thing.
Sperm donor and Baby Daddy are. Dad is MY Dad. MOM is my Mom.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Highlander 8/13/2022 11:47:04 AM (No. 1247101)
I would never feel kinship with any of the results if my father (my father, by dint of a marriage relationship) donated for cash in his spare time. It’s like preferring copies from a machine to the original.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 8/13/2022 11:50:37 AM (No. 1247105)
I guess they can be grateful for their lives, but I wouldn't be particularly happy to find out that (1) I was the product of a sperm donation, and (2) the donor was a naer do well whose major accomplishment in life was his ability to spank the monkey for money.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
OK state mom 8/13/2022 12:19:40 PM (No. 1247126)
Too bad the writer doesn't realize calling the siblings a step relation makes absolute nonsense of the entire article.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 8/13/2022 12:32:52 PM (No. 1247138)
Sperm donation, artificial insemination, and keeping embryos on ice is morally wrong. Mankind is playing with creation which is God's domain, a place where we do not belong. I know that these "wonderful" technologies have been able to give children to couples that could not conceive naturally. I have a beautiful grand niece that is a product of such a conception. But she has sibling embryos on ice right now that will not be "used". They are lives that were begun and stopped and are now...what? My nephew and his wife can keep them for future use, but their daughter is now ten and they do not want any more children. They have never said what they plan to do with their other fertilized embryos. Do they "kill" them? Do they give them to strangers? Do they give them scientific research? No one wants to discuss this topic.
What of these other sperm donor children? These children of donor #150 know their "father"? What of the man that actually raised them? We may have wonderful science, but it has opened up technologies that have given mankind a hubris making them think they can manipulate God's workings in the fundamental creation of human beings and the family unit. This has only made a hash of the family along with no-fault divorce, co-habitation and abortion. No wonder our children don't know if they are a guy or a girl or a fish or a bird. Lord have mercy.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/13/2022 1:36:05 PM (No. 1247160)
They aren’t “step” siblings. They are “half” siblings.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 8/13/2022 3:44:04 PM (No. 1247221)
We know a female, shes a lesbian who wanted to have a baby.
The baby, now an adult, also has about 30 siblings from a sperm donor. Yup, the kid turned to be a complete handful.
They all get together once a year for dinner.
They insist it's normal. Trust me it ain't normal. The mental patients are running the asylum.
America has become an open air mental institution.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
lakerman1 8/13/2022 4:50:19 PM (No. 1247293)
Jeffrey Toobin, just yesterday, announced that he is retiring from CNN.
I think I know what his new occupation will be.
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