God, those meddling grandparents. First they nag about grandchildren. Then they bear them. Now they want to father them (and I’m not talking about coaching Little League).
An English fertility clinic recently agreed to allow a 72-year-old man to donate sperm to his son and daughter-in-law to help her conceive. He’ll single-handedly, so to speak, bring about the next generation and also confirm his son’s worst insecurities that he doesn’t measure up to the old man.
No English laws preclude this intergenerational help, but doctors at the clinic said they debated this unusual request, counseled all parties involved and concluded it would be fine. The father-to-be had no brothers to turn to when he found out his swimmers were bad, so the couple went to dad to keep the family DNA all in the family. If any children come out of this, they’ll be the father’s half-sibling and grandad’s biological child.
I say take what you can get. My one hope is that the sperm isn’t being delivered the old-fashioned way, but I could just be thinking about my father-in-law when I say that.
