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What Is a Father?
MSN Lifestyle ^ | 08/02/2007 | Jennifer Wolff, Best Life

Posted on 08/02/2007 1:49:11 PM PDT by sodpoodle

No. 1: The Genetic Parent

Mike Rubino, 47, artist, sperm donor, father of untold numbers of children

I might have 10 kids, or I might have 50 kids. I have no idea. For sure I know about seven kids through six different mothers who live in six different states, from New York to Hawaii. I donated sperm once or twice a week for about five years in the early 1990s. Before that, I was one of those people who spent their life savings on fertility treatments, trying to get my ex-wife pregnant, to no avail. She was infertile, but I wasn't. We felt that by donating, I could help couples going through what we went through, plus pay for groceries for the week. Each time I gave a sample, I was aware, Wow, there could be a child produced from this. And I told the sperm bank I was open to having contact with any of them after they turned 18.

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1 posted on 08/02/2007 1:49:12 PM PDT by sodpoodle
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To: Lizarde; Sacajaweau; TrishaSC; gopheraj; Freedom'sWorthIt; fatima; Pepper777; Global2010; ...

Just pinging a change of pace;)

Could this be Larry’s new revenue source?

sorry
sod


2 posted on 08/02/2007 1:52:04 PM PDT by sodpoodle ( Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
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To: sodpoodle

The 4th story in the series is inspiring.


3 posted on 08/02/2007 2:09:01 PM PDT by knittnmom (...surrounded by reality!)
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To: 80 Square Miles

Yes, but - but - but - but - I can’t get over the sperm donor.

Colony collapse!


4 posted on 08/02/2007 2:21:27 PM PDT by sodpoodle ( Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
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To: sodpoodle

It’s really troubling how many females feel entitled to be single mothers, by using sperm from an anonymous male.

This is where the use of technology without values takes you. Rather than having any value for mothers and fathers, the use of sperm banks for single females is using IVF technology without values. The operators of these places have decided that they will not make any value judgements or hurt the self esteem of any females who want a baby without a man.

There was even a court case filed by a lesbian who was denied sperm at an IVF facility. My, my, no way can we have any values that you should be part of a husband/wife couple, no way Jose.

Why do so many yuppie females reach a certain age, without a man in their life, and decide they are entitled to have a baby no matter what? There is a reason why two parents produce a baby, because two parents are better than one when it comes time to raise children.


5 posted on 08/02/2007 2:34:23 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: sodpoodle

If I was younger, I wouldn’t walk in the same room with Mike Rubino! He sounds like a potent man who could just look at someone, and it’s BINGO.


6 posted on 08/02/2007 2:49:07 PM PDT by PeskyOne
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To: sodpoodle

Yuck.


7 posted on 08/02/2007 2:57:22 PM PDT by Jane Austen
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To: PeskyOne

“”” like a potent man”””

What has been unconscionable (since the 60’s) has been the fertility experimental centers paying immature men to ejaculate sperm into vials with undetermined result.

We can expect that there are millions of humans walking around - of unknown parentage. The odds of them having children with their half-siblings is also unknown.

I find that appalling.


8 posted on 08/02/2007 2:58:27 PM PDT by sodpoodle ( Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
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To: 80 Square Miles

Yes, the 4th story is inspirational. Especially since the other ones are sickening. The Harvard prof was really the worst. His children would have been better off with an anonymous sperm donor.


9 posted on 08/02/2007 3:01:47 PM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: sodpoodle
You're right, of course, and it's not fair to the children from an emotional or medical viewpoint. I also question whether it is a safe procedure. I have a friend who has bipolar symptoms, and both her children are bipolar - one worse than the other, and 2 of 5 grandchildren are, so that gene can definitely be passed on. I think it would take a strong person to handle some of the problems that can arise with children who have this disorder.

If Rubino has fathered 50 children, I still think he has to be potent! :)

10 posted on 08/02/2007 3:36:18 PM PDT by PeskyOne
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To: PeskyOne; All; PercivalWalks

Posted today - this other interesting thread. Which shows how unnatural our society has become.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1875295/posts


11 posted on 08/02/2007 4:14:10 PM PDT by sodpoodle ( Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
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To: sodpoodle

The doctors told the man he was impotent. So the man went out and bought a new suit. His wife asked him why he bought the suit. He replied “Well, the doctor told me i’m impotent, so i figured i might as well look impotent”.

budumpbump.


12 posted on 08/02/2007 8:22:12 PM PDT by uncitizen
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To: uncitizen

he he he.....good one


13 posted on 08/02/2007 9:40:17 PM PDT by shywolf
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To: PeskyOne

Wow....and can you imagine being a mom with it and having to care for 2 children who also have it? That has to be horrible!!


14 posted on 08/02/2007 9:41:39 PM PDT by shywolf
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To: sodpoodle
thanks for the change of subject.....What is this world coming too? I do feel sorry for kids of the future...they will have to get a DNA test done before getting married...they could actually marry a sibling...
15 posted on 08/02/2007 9:43:58 PM PDT by shywolf
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To: uncitizen

ROFLOL...just what this thread needed...a good laugh!


16 posted on 08/02/2007 9:53:45 PM PDT by PeskyOne
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To: uncitizen

Welcome to the weird world!

LOL


17 posted on 08/03/2007 3:57:53 AM PDT by sodpoodle ( Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
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To: shywolf

“”What is this world coming too?””

Does this help?

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22180532-5012749,00.html

A SICILIAN mother took away her 61-year-old son’s house keys, cut off his allowance and hauled him to the police station because he stayed out late...............

Most Italian men still live at home late into their 30s, enjoying their “mamma’s” cooking, washing and ironing.


18 posted on 08/03/2007 4:15:07 AM PDT by sodpoodle ( Despair - man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
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To: sodpoodle
Could this be Larry’s new revenue source?

Now THAT'S funny.

But yeah.

19 posted on 08/03/2007 4:49:07 AM PDT by uncitizen
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To: sodpoodle

Wow! Sperm donation - I’d never heard that as a possible colony collapse theory! I’ll have to tell my daughter, the beekeeper, that one.


20 posted on 08/03/2007 7:26:41 AM PDT by knittnmom (...surrounded by reality!)
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