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Topeka mothers support sperm donor in child support battle with Kansas DCF

Former partners say state forced name disclosure with threat of withholding health benefits

Posted: December 29, 2012 

 

By Aly Van Dyke

THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL

 

A lesbian couple who found a sperm donor on Craigslist three years ago never meant the man to be any more than just that, and they are supporting his fight against the state’s request he pay child support.

 

“We’re kind of at a loss,” Topekan Angela Bauer, 40, said Saturday, speaking on behalf of her and her former partner, Jennifer Schreiner. “We are going to support him in whatever action he wants to go forward with.”

 

The Kansas Department for Children and Families has filed a child support claim against Topekan William Marotta, who provided sperm used to artificially inseminate Schreiner.

 

Bauer and Schreiner, 34, placed an ad for a sperm donor on Craigslist in March 2009. Marotta responded, agreeing to relinquish all parental rights, including financial responsibility to the child.

The crowd weighs in.
A few reader comments

"Gay and Lesbian couples have children and the children benefit from two parents that love each other and the child. It matters not what they have between their legs. Scientific facts back that up not your belief system."

 

"As a person that has sold sperm, I am very concerned about this case. If the child support is granted, I could end up having the state or individuals coming after me and I did not even get to have sex with any of the women."

 

"No good deed goes unpunished in Kansas...He did a good deed and now is facing heavy legal fees, even if he wins ....and 18 years of child support if he loses.  The state of Kansas should be ashamed, for coercing the mother, AND for filing a frivolous suit against the donor in an effort to escape supporting the child."

 

 

 

 

 

"If any couple has a child from a sperm donor, the sperm donor should be out of the picture. The couple is responsible for that child!"

 

"Once again the State rears it's ugly head and dictates to We the People."

 

"Why is this any different than if it was a man-woman relationship and one parent worked, the other stayed home.. .and then they split and the primary breadwinner in the relationship can no longer work? It is THEIR child, not his."

 

 

 

 

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