Why does she want to keep her husbands sperm?

Um, eww?

Well John, you could pass it off as counterfeit bull semen, according to this site it goes at £10 a straw, and let’s face it, it won’t take, so they probably would just right it off as a bad batch.

http://www.uklivestock.co.uk/bull_semen_for_sale_detail.php?CID=3

But if you can manage to shoot it down a drinking straw I’ll be most impressed 😀

Is there any sort of monetary value attached to say, an egg cup full ?

Time for you to investigate, John. Try the local market first, but be prepared for some strange looks…;o)

Is there any sort of monetary value attached to say, an egg cup full ?

And why not, I heard Charlie has been harvesting his for years and he has a couple of bucketfuls now :p

It wasn’t that she was going to use it, it was the way the law stands that it would be destroyed early, thus robbing her from the opportunity to use it in the future…

I believe a lot of servicemen these days are encouraged to store samples before going to the likes of Afghanistan in case of wounds that would prevent future fatherhood.

Axel please use some full stops 🙂
No one has said forget or stop loving the one you have lost.

Not a Rant Axel, in fact I agree with most, if not all you have stated….:)
Jim.
Lincoln .7

may I ask people who say she should move on after losing the love of her life and someone she probably wanted to have children with anyway, why they think she should move on if the love of your life, someone you wanted to be with until the day you die, went and died how would you feel, would you go out the next day and look for someone new because if you did its obvious you didn’t really love the person who has just died and if that’s the case I have very little respect for you, also with her loseing someone not long before the devastation is even worse and I could never move on when you marry someone you say you will love them forever and will never love someone else in that way, so if you go and get someone else you lied to that person and maybe she feels like she cannot do that to him even if he is dead she may see it as being unfaithful and wrong, even if she never uses the sperm then atleast it is there just in case maybe some day she could donate it to someone who is infertile and wants kids maybe she wants to do good with it. (rant over)

That’s true but I doubt this is the first time this forum has debated the pros, cons, whys and wherefores of a private individual’s actions or beliefs and pronounced judgement. Neither will it be the last!!

I agree BUT the difference is, this IS a planned single parent family-the biological father will NEVER be there.

Which is something the father must have considered, or he would never have made the donation; since he would have known his wife rather better than any one of us, including her qualifications for bringing up a child single-handed, what gives anyone else the right to put their interpretation on the situation? If she should say, “Mind your own business,” it’s no more than you deserve.

Well, you can say that of any couple that plans to start a family (or decides to keep a child that they didn’t plan); how can any of us say what the world will be like in five, ten, fifteen years? Or what our financial or mental state will be? Or even that we’ll still be together; those statistics for single-parents (mostly) do not represent people who planned to be a single-parent.
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I agree BUT the difference is, this IS a planned single parent family-the biological father will NEVER be there.

Two different issues…

I do not see it as a different issue from any other single woman conceiving through donated sperm…..if that sort of thing even occurs these days? What is the difference between it being the sperm of her dead husband or some complete stranger?

Plenty of single-women bring-up children completely successfully and plenty of married-couples make a complete hash of it; that surely is what really matters?

My first thought was “Why would she want to introduce another child into the world who may be genetically predisposed to cancer?”
Unless of course having his heir would give her financial advantages…

… I can’t see an issue.
Jim.

Nor I

Moggy

Two different issues Warren.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

What about other individuals or same-sex couples that use donated sperm to conceive?

So, If she wants to keep her husbands sperm, so what?. it’s her choice. And if she is impregnated with it at a later date, and remain a single mother, who has her late husbands child, who are we to say she can’t. No one can foretell the future, best of luck to her I say.If she is paying for the preservation of the sperm than I can’t see an issue.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Trump – I agree.

…when the father gave his consent he had no idea what the future would be for his wife,what the future would be for the world we live in.Are there any safe guards for “his” wishes should the mother to be not be in the right place mentally ,physically,financially to be able to look after “his” child in the manner they envisioned in their world at the time.

Well, you can say that of any couple that plans to start a family (or decides to keep a child that they didn’t plan); how can any of us say what the world will be like in five, ten, fifteen years? Or what our financial or mental state will be? Or even that we’ll still be together; those statistics for single-parents (mostly) do not represent people who planned to be a single-parent.

This discussion seems to have become about whether this woman will do what is best for the child; there is no reason in the world that she should do any worse than millions of other parents.

This particular case is just so –weird.You need to look at it without emotion to ask the questions and get answers,nothing wrong with that.
There is a difference between single parent families where there MAY still be a father figure around even if not living in the same house to actually no father existing at conception/birth/childhood and entering adolescent adulthood.