Couple's late son was secret sperm donor for lesbian aunt

[SoCalDem]

Couple's late son was secret sperm donor for lesbian aunt, making them grandparents
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/couples-late-son-was-secret-sperm-donor-for-lesbian-aunt-making-them-grandparents/story-e6frf7jx-1225977816305
* By staff writers
* From: NewsCore
* December 29, 2010 10:48AM


A young British scaffolder who died last year secretly donated sperm to enable his lesbian aunt and her partner to have two youngsters, leaving his stunned parents to discover they had grandchildren.

Charlie Lowden died last year at 20 following routine surgery. It was only then that the complicated family history - and the paternity of the two children - became known, London's Daily Mail said.

The Mail said that Charlie's parents, Charles and Lynn Lowden of Bedlington, in Northumberland, had always thought Carlton, five, and Sarah, two, were their nephew and niece. They were born to Lynn's sister, Sarah Ashman, and her partner, Claire.

"When our Charlie died we were brokenhearted," the Mail quoted Lynn as saying. "We thought we had nothing left of him. But there is something left of him.

"I just wish that we had known about all of this before he died so that Charlie could have known we had accepted it."



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[originalpckelly]

1. Wait, WHAT?

He donated sperm to his AUNT? So either he had a kid with his mother's sister or his father sister?

Isn't that like test-tube incest?

I guess it's good he had kids before he died, and he could help them out like that, but that's kind of creepy. Are the kids OK?

[JVS]

3. Could it have been donated to the female wife of his biological aunt?

If I have a nephew who is my brother's son, my wife has a nephew who is not a blood relative.

[originalpckelly]

10. OH I GET IT!

Nevermind!

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:CfUg-GW4rPThQM:&t=1

[Iggo]

14. I was thinking the same as you were.

Obvious alternative blew right past me.

Phew!

[dkf]

27. Yeah I was freaking out too.

Whew 2.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. His sperm and the partner's egg, I would imagine.

[blue neen]

I was wondering that, also. It turns out the actual donor recipient was the aunt's partner.

So, it should be okay, genetically speaking.

[marshall]

29. I wonder how the "donation" was carried out

I doubt if a clinic would knowingly use the sperm of a 14 year old. Perhaps the deed was accomplished in the old fashioned way.

[Journeyman]

5. Was his aunt the recipient, or was it her partner?. . .

It would make quite a difference in the "incest" pool. . .

[Sheepshank]

6. his sperm, but not necessarily the aunt's ova

the ova could be donor or from the partner.

Apparently all went well the first time since they did it a second time!

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Am sure he donated to his aunt, but the partner was the one impregnated

sheesh :eyes: (just teasin' ya)

Hi opckelly! :hi:

[devils chaplain]

8. It was his Aunt's partner that had the kid. n/t

[Sheepshank]

2. awww...they loved him

their grandchildren and the sister/sil all along, and they didn't get a chance to show it. Talk about bittersweet....:(

[MrScorpio]

9. I need a score card for this one

Can anyone do a diagram?

[Hawkeye-X]

11. She's his own grandmother :P

(cough - Hit it, Maestro!)

Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her and soon they, too, were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life
For my daughter was my mother, 'cause she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter, who, of course, was my step-mother.

My father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my grand-child, 'cause he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue
Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too.

If my wife is my grandmother, then I am her grandchild
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw
(This has got to be the strangest thing I ever saw)
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpaw.

Chorus
I'm my own grandpaw
I'm my own grandpaw
It sounds funny I know
but it really is so
Oh, I'm my own grandpaw.

[csziggy]

26. Is that Lazarus Long's song?

Sounds like his family!

[Iggo]

30. Goldern incestuous gingers, the lot of them! (n/t)

[MadMaddie]

12. You are too funny!

[lumberjack_jeff]

13. He died last year at age 20.

His biological children are 5 and 2.

Should teens be sperm donors without the knowledge of their parents?

[SoCalDem]

16. That's probably why he said nothing to his folks

At 14 or 15 when he donated the first time, I'm sure they would have been creeped out..:eyes:

[Iggo]

17. Maybe not.

But should they be required by law to tell their parents?

Iggo says hells to the no.

[Kali]

19. good catch

interesting question

[tekisui]

15. Sweet story. It is sad he died so young.

[MannyGoldstein]

18. The real victim here is Jerry Springer

He's probably suicidal over not being able to do this show.

[HillWilliam]

20. .

:rofl:

[Kaleva]

28. Duzy!

[Kennah]

21. I think I saw this Tennessee Williams play

[Justitia]

25. For The Win! (huge TW fan, here)

:yourock:

[HEyHEY]

22. just handing out sperm like it' s free!

[saras]

23. Test-tube incest

Even though it appears to be genetically just fine, I hope someone gets a good novelty song out of it. "I'm My Own Grampaw" and "Uncle Fud" are kind of showing their age.

Sounds like a job for Jonathan Coulton.

[Withywindle]

24. I think it's sweet and sad.

Weird, sure--but mostly sweet and sad.


(Teenage boys normally produce a great deal of sperm, I believe, most of which goes into old socks and Kleenex.)

[WillParkinson]

31. The family (pictures)

Lasting gift: Charlie Lowden (left) donated sperm to his aunt, Sarah Ashman (above, left) and her partner, Claire, who gave birth to Carlton and Sarah



The Grandparents


Charlie died on December 9 last year after he suffered severe chest pains and began vomiting blood just days after a hernia operation at Hexham General Hospital. His parents are taking legal action.

Sarah added:'His death has totally broken all of us. It's just shattered the whole family.'