Meeting your sperm donor?

This is my experience as a granddaughter of the sperm donar and the sister in law of the sperm donar.

I never knew my real grandfather. Neither did my mother. The man I knew as my grandfather legally adopted her when she was like 2 yrs old and so her birth records were sealed. My mom didn't even know her real father's name until she was in her 60s(she knew her dad adopter her but my grandmother refused to talk about her real father until then). Because I work on our family tree my mom asked if I could find her real dad now that we knew his name. It wasn't easy. My grandmother by this time was in her 80s/90s and she gave me what she could remember. I am still not able to get my moms real birth certificate because my grandmother is still alive(at 101 yrs old) however after years of trying I feel like I finally tracked the man down from the info I had only to find out he was dead and died like in the 1980s or early 90s and he lived like 30 mins away from us when he died. All my mom wanted was to "know" him. It took my grandma 60 yrs to just tell her his name. It's sooo fucked up and as a granddaughter it impacted me as well.

My niece and nephews father basically abandoned them when they were young. After my sister divorced him right after my niece was born he moved away to a different state and then left the country where he met a new woman who had a kid, married her and raised her kid as his own. My niece referred to him as the sperm donar because eventually my sister met the man who is still raising them and who they call dad even tho he left my sister. They are teenagers now. However, my sister almost went down the path of my grandmother even went as far as changing their last names to her maden name legally so they no longer have his last name which they were legally born with. His family never took interest in them but eventually my sister made an effort and contacted his family and him in order to let them know him. My niece is still interested in the family tree because she wants to know more about her father's side of the family. Unfortunately for them their father ended up dying a few years ago but they did get to meet him again b4 he died and got to know him through Facebook(he had moved to South America). He is originally from South Africa so his family is still there but I don't think the kids talk to them or know their cousins. I met his sister once after my nephew was born she came to America for that but not for my niece and they are only a year apart so my nephew has no recollection of her visit. But they did get to know their father and even tho they hated him for abandoning them I think they were better adjusted to the fact that he is dead now.

So my advice is to let your daughter know of him and meet him if he wants to meet her. But don't make any promises to her. At least let her make that decision as she gets older before he dies and she wishes she had just known him and now never will.

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