A rich current American Zeitgeist mine… “A Sperm Donor Chases a Role in the Lives of the 96 Children He Fathered” (WSJ):
Dylan Stone-Miller took a 9,000-mile road trip this summer to see some of his 96 children.
Months after Stone-Miller and his wife split up in 2020, a stranger messaged him.
Stone-Miller has twice visited Harper and her sister Harlow—also one of his biological children. In July, he stayed nine days at an Airbnb near their house in Edmonton, Canada, the longest visit of his road trip. The girls’ mothers acknowledged the complexities of the relationship, from his role in their lives to what to call him.
“I don’t want Harper to feel like she can call him anything,” Bowes said. “He is not her dad. Period. If she were to say that in front of us, we would straight up say, ‘Dylan is not your dad. He will never be your dad. You don’t have a dad. You have a donor.’ ”
Before leaving on his trip, Stone-Miller went to see Cal, his 6-year-old biological child who lives in a suburb of Atlanta. He had visited the boy several times in the past two years, and Cal told his two mothers that he wanted to spend time alone with Stone-Miller. The moms agreed to let Stone-Miller drive Cal to a Target store to buy toys. … After Target, they went to the park to spend the afternoon with Cal’s moms and his 3-year-old brother, another of Stone-Miller’s biological children.
Stone-Miller’s parents divorced when he was 14.
Stone-Miller, who was studying psychology at Georgia State University, was arrested for underage drinking.
Fans of The Son Also Rises will not be surprised that the child of divorce is himself divorced. Let’s hope that the tendency to be arrested isn’t heritable with these 96 kids as it has been for most humans (see, for example, “A Swedish national twin study of criminal behavior and its violent, white-collar and property subtypes”).
The WSJ includes a photo of what the ideal modern American family looks like:
With a very high concentration of super rich, most of generation Z in silicon valley has the same father. Genetic diversity is much less in vogue than it was in more liberal times, 100 years ago.
So who is the father?
How come this guy isn’t required to pay child support for his 96 kids?
Compare and contrast with wildcat inseminator Prof. Ari Nagel, who as I recall does has to pay child support, at least to some of his brood. He apparently has a reality show these days? 52 children at last count, scattered all over the world.
As he says in his show: “Certainly, if I were doing something wrong it wouldn’t feel so right.”
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