“And I hadn’t heard of the Donor Sibling Registry.’’ And no ‘23andMe,’ ’’ said Seisler, referring to a retail DNA testing service. (To say nothing of reality TV, to record dramatic reunions in real time.) Or that there would be an online sperm donor registry to help donor children find their biological family members. A decade ago, it was hard to anticipate that offspring conceived with his sperm would grow up in a culture that valued such openness about their origins. It made sense to him at the time because it was a very different time. I really didn’t think too much about people trying to find me.’’ “They told me I’d be anonymous,’’ said Seisler, who donated sperm at the Fairfax Cryobank in Virginia to help defray his law school bills from George Mason University. Seisler averaged $150 per donation and said the transaction seemed pretty uncomplicated. These are issues a lot of men may not have considered back at the sperm bank, a lucrative source of quick cash. Issues such as: What if the kids want to meet the fathers? What if children from the same sperm donor meet each other, and unwittingly get married? When’s the right time to tell your girlfriend that you were a sperm donor? (Seisler broke the news to his on their third date.) The situation highlights the complicated issues that are starting to emerge now that a sizable cohort of donor-conceived children are growing up and wanting information about their biological fathers.
He was struck by their resemblance to him. Seisler recently met two of his biological children during the shooting of a reality TV documentary.
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