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Dutch fertility doctor may have more than 49 children

April 15, 2019 By My SD Moms

By MIKE CORDER Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch fertility doctor who used his own sperm to father 49 children, without telling their mothers he was the donor, may have even more children.

The case of Dr. Jan Karbaat, who died in 2017, has riveted the Netherlands, due to its mix of unethical medical behavior, privacy concerns, DNA testing, legal wrangling and the rights of children to know who their parents are.

Joey Hoofdman, who, after DNA testing is one of 49 confirmed children of Dutch fertility doctor Jan Karbaat, poses for a portrait in Alkmaar, Netherlands, Monday, April 15, 2019. Karbaat, who died in 2017, used his own sperm to inseminate 49 women and may have even more children. Ties van der Meer of the Dutch Donor Child Foundation said Monday that three more people have contacted him because they think they may also have been conceived using the sperm of Dr. Jan Karbaat. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Ties van der Meer of the Dutch Donor Child Foundation said Monday that three more people contacted him over the weekend because they suspect they may also have been conceived using Karbatt’s sperm.

DNA tests revealed last week that Karbaat was the biological father of 49 children. Most of them are now adults.

Publicity surrounding the case means that the extended family may grow even larger as more people seek to check their DNA against Karbaat’s.

Van der Meer, whose foundation supports such children, says Karbaat could have fathered many more, including ones who are not in the country.

In the past, fertility doctors would advise parents not to tell their children they were conceived with the help of donors, he said.

Meanwhile, dozens of people who now know who their biological father is are coming to terms with the news.

“We are all happy with the clarity and the information we now have so we can get on with our lives,” said Joey Hoofdman, one of the people fathered by Karbaat.

“It is a wave of emotions. We are all happy we have met each other, but because there are so many, it is complicated,” he added.

Hoofdman said he will now seek compensation. He said his mother went to the clinic for a fertility treatment with the sperm of her partner, the man who raised Hoofdman as his son.

Karbaat’s fertility clinic in the town of Barendrecht, a suburb of Rotterdam, was ordered closed in 2009 by a government health care agency due to poor administration and record keeping. A phone number and email address listed online for the clinic did not work.

The doctor died shortly before a legal battle began two years ago to check whether he was indeed the biological father of children born after their parents underwent treatment at his clinic.

Until 2004, people in the Netherlands who donated sperm or eggs could do so anonymously.

Van der Meer said Karbaat appears to have been able to father so many children in part because of the culture of silence that prevailed around sperm and egg donations in the 1970s and ’80s.

“If something is kept secret from all sides, then the only person with all the information — and that is the doctor — has totally free rein,” he said.

In the legal battle, the doctor’s family had said its privacy was being called into question, but a lawyer for the children said the court ruling placed the children’s rights first over the privacy rights of Karbaat’s family.

The Dutch branch of child rights group Defense for Children, which supported the legal battle, welcomed the clarity and said it should be a first step toward allowing all children of anonymous donors to seek out their heritage.

“The Karbaat case is the first enormous breakthrough,” said Iara de Witte, an adviser to the rights group.

Filed Under: From The Web, Lifestyle, News

Great Idea! Recycle Those Markers!

January 29, 2019 By My SD Moms

Did you know you can recycle your used markers? 

Over on Facebook, we happened to stumble across user Jo B Phillips who recently posted about Crayola’s recycle program. The program accepts Crayola brand markers, but they will also take in other brands and types or markers.

Turns out there are other ways you can get your kids involved with recycling their old markers.  And the postage won’t cost you a thing!

You’ll find more information about the program here.

Pretty cool!

Filed Under: Education, From The Web, News, Public Service, Toddlers/Pre-Schoolers, Youngsters Tagged With: recycling

Moms tries to break record of fastest 10k with a stroller

January 25, 2019 By My SD Moms

A 10K with a stroller- it may just be a new Guinness World Record.

30-year-old Rachel Bowling ran the LowCountry Habitat for Humanity Resolution race in South Carolina to try to be the fastest woman for this race while pushing a double stroller.

Check out the video and story below!

Filed Under: From The Web, Health & Nutrition, Lifestyle, News, Videos Tagged With: exercise, news, video

People Gave Out Some Weird Stuff Instead of Candy for Halloween

November 2, 2018 By My SD Moms

Some people really thought…errr…outside the bag of candy this year when it came to Halloween treats.

Behold…a few of the weirdest things kids got in their bags this year…

(A copy of the Constitution?  Gee, thanks.)

This gives us some ideas for NEXT Halloween!

Dogsitting for a friend and I am anticipating the trick or treaters.

But considering giving these out to see if they’ll egg my friend’s house pic.twitter.com/3bVtjvfps5

— Ted Kelly (@TeddyRedder) October 31, 2018

🎃I let kids adopt a lot of my kids stuffed animals when I gave out candy this Halloween. 🎃
They sure did enjoy it. I went from this to this…. pic.twitter.com/tZlfxOuEUK

— Sheri Peterson (@SheripetersonS) November 1, 2018

No lie. A guy gave my kids a pack of @Topps baseball cards from 1988 for #Halloween. And yes the gum was also from 1988. pic.twitter.com/Yt8VPe82Ig

— Cody Spain (@Cdspain) November 1, 2018

Come at me, trick or treaters!

Except for you, jerkface kid who tells me I’m doing Halloween wrong by giving out Play-Doh and glow sticks rather than candy. Pound sand. pic.twitter.com/I1Fy0H9WbD

— Katie Cunningham (@kcunning) October 31, 2018

My dad just gave 1 dollar bills to kids in my neighborhood if they danced to baby shark 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️😂😂😂

— Elizabeth (@fizzysalinas) November 1, 2018

They gave a hot dog to my niece when she went Trick-or-treating LMAOOO pic.twitter.com/6UUE3jKk26

— 💕 (@Imissmyqtgf) November 1, 2018

This house really gave out tacos instead of candy for Halloween 😂 pic.twitter.com/1MANQNcc0z

— jack-o-lantern (@jacquelinenamor) November 1, 2018

This Halloween, we gave out comic books and candy.. Kids loved the comic books…….. pic.twitter.com/7mh6nqgf3l

— Virginia Smith (@VaSmith12) November 1, 2018

man people give out some weird shit for halloween these days. gave my kid a bath bomb…

— Knud I, the Great (@kms512) November 1, 2018

No seriously someone gave this out. #Halloween #TrickOrTreat #companytown pic.twitter.com/3sWZivmXrH

— Moira Whelan (@moira) November 1, 2018

Filed Under: From The Web, Funny, Halloween, Lifestyle, Youngsters Tagged With: halloween, kids

Child experts file FTC complaint against Facebook kids’ app

October 3, 2018 By Evonne

By BARBARA ORTUTAY,  AP Technology Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Children’s and public health advocacy groups say Facebook’s kid-centric messaging app violates federal law by collecting kids’ personal information without getting verifiable consent from their parents.

FILE- In this Feb. 16, 2018, file photo, Facebook’s Messenger Kids app is displayed on an iPhone in New York.The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and other groups are asking the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday, Oct. 3, to investigate Facebook’s Messenger Kids for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and other groups asked the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate Facebook’s Messenger Kids for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA.

The complaint says the app does not meet COPPA requirements because it doesn’t try to ensure that the person who sets up the kids’ account and gives consent to have their data collected is the actual parent. In fact, the groups say, someone could set up a brand new, fictional account and immediately approve a kid’s account without proving their age or identity.

Facebook said Wednesday it hasn’t yet reviewed the complaint letter. The company has said it doesn’t show ads on Messenger Kids or collect data for marketing purposes, though it does collect some data it says is necessary to run the service.

But the advocacy groups say the privacy policy of Messenger Kids is “incomplete and vague” and allows Facebook to disclose data to third parties and other Facebook services “for broad, undefined business purposes.”

Facebook launched Messenger Kids last December on iOS and has since expanded to Android and Amazon devices and beyond the U.S. to Mexico, Canada and elsewhere. It is aimed at children under 13 who technically cannot have Facebook accounts (although plenty of them do).

Though the company says it has received a lot of input from parents and children’s development experts in creating the app, groups such as the CCFC have been trying to get Messenger Kids shut down since it launched.

Filed Under: Child Safety, From The Web, Lifestyle, News Tagged With: app, facebook, kids, safety, tech

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