Sunday, September 18, 2005

Can We Kick All These People Out of the Gene Pool?

A Washington man and his girlfriend had been trying to have a baby for nearly 3 years when they turned to in vitro fertilization using the man's sperm, being as nothing was happening naturally and the girlfriend wasn't getting any younger. Acting as a responsible father, the man took out a life insurance policy with the child as the beneficiary, signed an affidavit of paternity and paid his girlfriend $650 per month in informal child support. The child was given his surname. All signs seem to indicate he was very involved in the child's life. Three years later, she bore a second child using the donated sperm, and he increased child support payments to about $1,000 per month.

Shortly thereafter, the man's wife found out. No word on just how she discovered this situation after more than 6 years and who knows how many thousands of dollars of general mistress support, child support, IVF bills, etc., but she probably would have found out eventually even if the man had been very careful about covering his tracks. When an affair goes south, a picture may be worth a thousand words, but that's nothing compared to the blackmail value of two genetic offspring.

What's a married man to do when he's caught having fathered and supported his mistress's two children? This man's strategy was to immediately cut off contact and financial support and try to claim he just donated sperm to a friend. Yeah, the state Supreme Court didn't buy that, either.

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