Good thing I never donated any they didn't swallow right away.

Daily Mail UK

A sperm donor has been ordered to pay child support for the biological daughter he fathered to a lesbian couple who found him via Craigslist.

Angela Bauer, 40, and partner Jennifer Schreiner, 34, placed an ad on the site three years ago for a donor which was answered by William Marotta.

‘We are foster and adoptive parents and now we desire to share a pregnancy and birth together,’ Bauer wrote in the online posting.

Mr Marotta provided sperm which was used for artificial insemination by Ms Schreiner. In return, he gave up parental rights including financial duties for the child.

The three signed a legal document which stated Mr Marotta, a married mechanic who fosters children with his wife, would have no rights to the child.

Bauer and Schreiner updated Marotta on their daughter’s well-being occasionally but he has had little contact, according to the Kansas City Star.

The arrangement changed earlier this year when Ms Schreiner, the only parent registered on her daughter’s birth certificate, applied for social welfare.

Ms Bauer had been supporting the child but was left unable to work due to ill health.

On October 3, 2012, attorney Mark McMillan filed a petition on behalf of the Department of Children and Families seeking a ruling that Marotta is the father of Schreiner’s child and owes a duty to support her.

It said the department provided cash assistance totaling $189 for the girl for July through September 2012, and had paid medical expenses totaling nearly $6,000.

Schreiner had allegedly been put under pressure to reveal Mr Marotta’s name so that her daughter could continue to have health care.

The legal agreement that the three made in 2009 was deemed invalid by Kansas state because they did not use a certified doctor for the insemination.

Ms Bauer and Ms Schreiner, who separated in 2010, plan to help Mr Marotta fight the state’s decision, saying they are ‘forever grateful’ for the child he gave their family.

Seems they should have followed the correct procedure for insemination.

The State wants their money.

I don't understand men that want to donate their sperm anyway. Why would you want to create children that you aren't going raise?

I doubt he will win the case. Even though I think he should. Next time maybe the woman should lie up front and say she has no idea who the father is.

Sounds like the lawyer wants to get paid. Typical. What I don't get is that the guy has no biological children of his own, instead he fosters yet he was willing to donate his genes to another couple. If you have the means to raise a kid and you are fertile then wouldn't you rather raise your own kid and leave the adoption to those that can't reproduce? Either way he got screwed.

it was a lesbian couple, they needed a sperm to 'share' a child together,,,,

they could have NEVER reproduced (together)


he was being generous with his sperm,

and he may not want the PERMANENT lifelong commitment of parenthood,, fostering is only a temporary stop for kids until they found such a parent,,,

if they want to do the 'right' thing,,,they will just need to find a way to re compensate him whatever amount he ends up paying for the support they received for their child

If she had the money to do that she wouldn't be on state assistance. It's possible later in life she can pay him back. But the state will start taking money out of his paycheck now.

Exactly my point. Let them do the fostering.



Perhaps I read this wrong. I took foster to mean adoption, meaning that you have a commitment until the child turns eighteen.

Just didn't make sense to me why you would adopt children and then donate your sperm to someone else.

I understand, some people just want to look at themself in their child,, I imagine,,, one of the women wanted to be able to feel that 'connection'

but I dont know them

and yeah, foster is temporary until the child is reunited with its family or adopted