Wall Street Journalさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Wall Street JournalInstagram)「Dylan Stone-Miller took a 9,000-mile road trip this summer to see some of his 96 children.⁠ ⁠ Emotionally, logistically, in all ways, it is complicated for the kids, their families and for Stone-Miller, a prolific 32-year-old sperm donor, who began donating for money in college. His road trip is part of a larger odyssey—to figure out how he fits into the lives of the boys and girls he fathered in absentia. He quit his job as a software engineer and has funded his quest with savings. So far, he has met 25 of his biological children.⁠ ⁠ Stone-Miller’s mission sprang from the unforeseen union of in vitro fertilization, the internet and low-cost DNA testing. Together, these disparate advances have made it possible to find biological fathers who in the past were kept largely anonymous by sperm banks.⁠ ⁠ Months after Stone-Miller and his wife split up in 2020, a stranger messaged him to say “how grateful my family is to you.” Alicia Bowes, a mother of children conceived through Stone-Miller's sperm donations, discovered his identity through social media and clues from his donor file, including his first name and his father’s occupation.⁠ ⁠ Days later, he asked Bowes if he could join a Facebook group of parents named after his sperm bank ID. She agreed to form a new group for those interested. When he told the group he wanted to meet their children, the parents of 20 of them responded. They are trying to figure out his role—a biological father, a donor dad, a visitor or special friend.⁠ ⁠ Before leaving on his trip, Stone-Miller went to see Cal, his 6-year-old biological child who lives in a suburb of Atlanta. Cal’s mothers were grateful for the visit. “Where we live, there is no family like ours,” said Lindsay Harris, one of Cal’s mothers. “So when a kid says, ‘You don’t have a dad,’ Cal can say, ‘I do have a biological dad. I have a donor dad. I see him. He is part of my life.’ ”⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in our bio.⁠ ⁠ 📷: @davidwalterbanks & @sophieupark for @wsjphotos」9月2日 6時00分