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N. Smith – …the wound caused by missing actions on [my father’s] part is definitely still there in my adulthood
I grew up in a single mother household. My parents divorced when I was six or seven years of age, my brother was three, and my sister was thirteen. When my parents divorced, we were living in California and my mom moved us to Michigan. My dad followed us, and they...
HIV positive sperm donors inflict a wave of continued father loss on children
(Image Source: Doyle Dane Bernbach) In 2019, New Zealand opened the world’s first “HIV Positive” sperm bank in an attempt to reduce the stigma around HIV positive men. Two years later, a handful of babies have been created from HIV positive sperm donors. The sperm...
…I was just filled with anger all the time. That’s all I really feel about my existence. Anger.
(Originally published on AnonymousUs) Growing up it was just my mom, my two very involved godparents and me. I always knew I was missing a biological father. I always had to explain to my friends since the age of five why I don’t have a dad. I liked it, I got...