Don’t need to find the men specifically, just takes the kid doing a genealogical test and they will likely have connections with others from the donor’s family. Doesn’t take a detective to figure out the identity from there.
Not everyone does those DNA tests though. I have shockingly very few matches that are close enough to deduce anything from. Though my family has lived in a poor rural area for generations, so it tracks that most of them don’t have the disposable income to pay for frivolous DNA testing
So you’re the one they connect through then. Sure, not everyone does it, but all it takes is one second cousin, and you’ve massively narrowed your field.
Or they could do something even better and completely excuse the donor of any legal and economic responsibility if he donated by legal means, so even if they did find out who the donor is, they still can't force him to do anything regarding the child, which is what my country did
Ok, after so many comments I dug into the justice matter of sperm donation in my country. I couldn't find any clear sources about the "sperm cocktail" to avoid child support, but I found much rather that (again in my country) a donor has no rights becoming the father but can't be forced to pay child support either.
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u/StrangerWithACheese Feb 20 '25
That's the reason spermbanks give (at least in my country) no sperm of a single man but a cocktail, so that even the bank can't tell who it could be