Comments by "ZA Journals" (@zajournals) on "The Atlantic" channel.

  1. DNA testing has opened a whole new world we never imagined... When I was in college 40+ years ago, it wasn't uncommon for a guy to donate at sperm banks. It meant easy money. It meant a lot of money if one did so frequently and at multiple banks. I can't remember how many times I donated, but recently discovered from one donation 9 children were born. I can't imagine how many biological children and grandchildren I must have out there. That was a consequence I never thought I'd ever know about.
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  2.  @rowill9939  over 100
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  3.  JONES  because it was in the late 1970s, early 1980s and being able to do easy DNA testing wasn't a thing. Also, I was 18 to 20-something and wasn't thinking there'd ever be a possibility for searching me. There wasn't even computers.
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  4.  @Dachdogoriginal  I've thought of that. Hopefully none of them have married one another.
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  5.  @biosciencetech  can you just imagine that !!! Thankfully there's no available info for them to ID or contact me. Especially since there's a lot more than nine.
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  6.  JONES  well I guess I didn't think that either. Back then it wasn't as advanced as it is now. For all I know, there may still be frozen sperm of mine.
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  7.  @Me-lb8nd  that makes a lot of sense. Probably shouldn't be something a college student does just to earn money.
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  8.  @Dachdogoriginal  once I discovered them, obviously not back 40 years ago when I was just a collage student. I'm surprised the clinics back then weren't thinking about these consequences. Sure I donated but I wasn't in control of what they did with it. I'm sure I thought it would be used wisely. (Might be why so many of them don't exist now, leaving no records behind.)
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  9.  @pickinforalivin  of course, but not back then obviously.
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  10. ​ @arcticblonde  it works both ways
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  11.  @arcticblonde  people may "have the right to know" but people also have the right to privacy.
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