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Best Ad for Sperm Donor EVER

Posted by JeanneSager

Here's hoping you have a slightly better handle on the lineage of the child in your belly than this woman:  A North Carolina newspaper ran a legal notice on behalf of a mother searching for the possible father of her baby.

Her clues? He was “about 5 feet 7 inches tall, with a light brown complexion and ‘funny’ shaped eyes.”

Oh, just wait, it gets better.

The two apparently bumped pelvises sometime during the month of December 2002 (so we're assuming there was more than one sexual encounter that month, if she can't pin down a date for her one night stand, either that or a whole lot of alcohol?). She's also not sure WHERE she knocked boots with the man with funny shaped eyes.

Her best guess is "at a house in Bolton, N.C., thought to be the second house on the left after turning left on the street just past Bubba’s Club as you head east from Lake Waccamaw.”

The father was being sought not to provide any support but to give up his legal rights to the child who was about to be adopted at five years old. He was granted forty days to reply after the legal notice was published. I'm all for giving biological dads a chance to get involved in their kid's lives, but the best way to start that is generally to get the name of the guy you're about to let into your pants. I don't know, even a first name would be nice? And marking down the address of the site of your conquest might be prudent, in case you ever have to start knocking down doors when two lines show up on the little pee stick.

All kidding aside, I don't envy this woman the conversation about the birds and the bees. Hey mom, where do babies come from?

That would be the second house on the left after turning left on the street just past Bubba's Club . . .

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Comments

 

rosie said:

So, the mother in question is putting this kid conceived in 2002 up for adoption, and you're worried about what was she thinking? meh. Sounds like things are pretty hard for them.

April 17, 2009 12:52 PM
 

Twintown said:

Or she could be in a relationship where the new guy wants to adopt her child and be considered her legal parent.  Let's hope for that scenario as it suggests two loving parents who are trying to do something responsible despite one of them having made some bad decisions in December 2002!

April 17, 2009 1:25 PM
 

elohveeee12 said:

or maybe he was in some sort of foster care since birth, and has finally found a family. But they needed the father's signature before being able to legally adopt the child.

April 17, 2009 7:33 PM
 

Robin said:

This doesn't make much sense to me - if she never knew the father's name wouldn't it be listed as "unknown"?  For adoption is there still a requirement if the father is unknown?

April 17, 2009 10:53 PM
 

Sheri said:

My husband adopted our oldest.  I got pregnant when I was 21 and my son's birth father told me he wanted nothing to do with him.  So I didn't put his name on the birth certificate.  I had to have this moron sign a paper saying "I've never been named as the birth father and I'm not saying I am, but if I am, I'm giving up all parental rights".....I'm thinking they are doing this so some random person doesn't come along and claim paternity after an adoption takes place.  My son is almost 20 and this took place 15 years ago, so I don't know if it is still done, but that's how things went for us.  

I know next to nothing about the identity of my two youngest son's sperm donor (eye color, basic health information etc.)  does this make me an idiot, Jeanne???

April 20, 2009 10:10 AM
 

JeanneSager said:

Sheri - this woman didn't even know the name of the man she had sex with. I'm not saying you have to be best buddies with a one night stand, but getting his name would help.

April 20, 2009 10:19 AM

About JeanneSager

Jeanne Sager is a writer who lives in upstate New York with her husband, daughter, a dog and too many cats. She refuses to believe motherhood comes with pumpkin appliqued sweaters, and she';s not ready to apologize for having only one child. She writes about raising her kid in her own hometown and the mom stuff she's not embarrassed to own at her blog, Inside Out (http://jeannesager.blogspot.com), she's contributing editor of Grand Magazine, and she's a regular essayist here on Babble

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