A man in England mixed his sperm with his father’s to help get his partner pregnant as he couldn’t afford IVF treatment.
As reported by The Guardian, the man has not been named for legal reasons, and is only identified as PQ in court documents.
The outlet said that PQ and his partner JK had experienced fertility problems and the couple couldn’t afford IVF treatment – a combination of medicines and surgical procedures to help sperm fertilize an egg and help a woman conceive.
Therefore, PQ decided to mix his sperm with his father’s (RS), which was then injected into the woman. The arrangement, which the judge was informed had been “always intended” to be kept secret, led to the birth of a now five-year-old boy (named D in the court documents).
But once the local council was informed about the circumstances of the conception, it launched a legal bid to find the parentage …