www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10868359/Sperm-donor-incurable-condition-fathered-15-children-lesbian-mothers.html
There are huge risks of arranging donation via social media and this is only 1 example. These poor women have even been forced to give this man who was branded "a complex person, with learning difficulties and on the autistic spectrum, with fixed views, concrete thinking and a profound lack of insight" by a judge contact with their children. What a horrendous situation.
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James MacDougall: serial sperm donation with fragile X syndrome
user75 · 30/05/2022 21:30
KimikosNightmare · 02/06/2022 02:39
Should he have said more? It's easy enough to Google it and the results are frightening.
It's utterly dreadful for the children but the mothers have responsibility too for this mess.
Male children will be unaffected No, seems boys are more likely to be affected.
SleepingStandingUp · 31/05/2022 09:41
The document also said, on page 3, that he had Fragile X syndrome without explaining what this meant, and SW, who has problems reading and is extremely vulnerable, said she did not read that far into the agreement, the judge said.
This is all such a mess beyond "don't buy sperm on Facebook". Those poor kids
ClumpingBambooIsALie · 02/06/2022 04:48
His male children won't get fragile X from him, because he doesn't pass on his X chromosome to his male children — he passes them his unaffected Y chromosome, which is what makes them a boy.
His daughters get his X chromosome along with an X chromosome from the mother, which means his female children will have fragile X because one of the two X chromosomes they received is affected.
For boys who do have fragile X, they can experience a more severe form of the disorder than girls, because they don't have another, healthy X chromosome — their other sex chromosome is a Y, which carries very little information.
KimikosNightmare · 02/06/2022 02:39
Should he have said more? It's easy enough to Google it and the results are frightening.
It's utterly dreadful for the children but the mothers have responsibility too for this mess.
Male children will be unaffected No, seems boys are more likely to be affected.
SleepingStandingUp · 31/05/2022 09:41
The document also said, on page 3, that he had Fragile X syndrome without explaining what this meant, and SW, who has problems reading and is extremely vulnerable, said she did not read that far into the agreement, the judge said.
This is all such a mess beyond "don't buy sperm on Facebook". Those poor kids
BenCooperisaGod · 02/06/2022 08:00
This is the latest from the Daily Mail.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10875705/EXCLUSIVE-Mother-says-sperm-donor-Fragile-X-syndrome-never-told-incurable-genetic-condition.html
Doesn't mention that the mothers have any particular vulnerability. She says she didn't read the document provided and went on to have a 2nd child with him.
Girls tend to be less affected than boys, but it is likely any affected children will have moderate to severe levels of disability. The condition tends to worsen down the generations. All so sad.
ChoccyJules · 30/05/2022 22:01
Reading the whole article it seems a lot of this man‘s issues are not necessarily linked to Fragile X at all. The stalking behaviour, violence. It’s only one of his diagnoses.
Many people with FXS will not behave like this and on the contrary are empathetic and genuine. I am not keen on the tone of this but I understand that’s not the thrust of the article, which is his deception.
user75 · 30/05/2022 21:30
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10868359/Sperm-donor-incurable-condition-fathered-15-children-lesbian-mothers.html
There are huge risks of arranging donation via social media and this is only 1 example. These poor women have even been forced to give this man who was branded "a complex person, with learning difficulties and on the autistic spectrum, with fixed views, concrete thinking and a profound lack of insight" by a judge contact with their children. What a horrendous situation.
elgreco · 08/08/2023 08:33
Showing my ignorance here, but do clinics screen for this and all other genetic conditions?
Or could a donor lie?
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