A hardy group of 500 sperm donors have fathered more than 6,200 children, figures show.
The men’s donations have each been used successfully in at least ten instances – and 15 donors are fathers to 20 or more children. Figures released according to www.metro.co.uk, by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority cover donor insemination records held by clinics across the country.
However, the authority would not disclose the most children born from a single donor, saying that would breach data protection laws. Before the law was changed in 2005, donors could remain anonymous and their offspring were only entitled to get basic physiological details of their fathers.
In Britain, sperm from one donor can only be used in up to ten different families. Metro.co.uk
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