an accident revealed he had 48 children

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An Australian internet user discovered he had 48 children – Credit: Courier Mail

The outlet investigated the scandal and consulted with experts, as well as interviews with families affected by the data breach. But when the surfer’s case became known, the focus was on that specific case.

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An Australian internet user discovered he had 48 children – Credit: Courier Mail

A fertility expert reported that 48 children is the largest number of boys born to the same donor “by far”. It would also be an illegal act: in the early 2000s, the maximum donation limit in Australia was twenty families, and is currently ten.

In addition, there is a series of problems that break the law. In the first place, donor anonymity is guaranteed until children reach the age of majority – that is, when they can request information from the donor – and the usual thing is that between brothers and sisters of the same donor, there are thousands of kilometers from each other, due to the danger that implies that they do not know their origin and may have children among them.

But the investigation found that several children of the Internet user live in neighboring neighborhoods, which would be extremely serious.

The parents of the Ahston family, Shannon and Lisa, have admitted that their five children – aged 1 to 15 – are all his. And it is that the Ahstons, like the rest of the families, chose this donor for his characteristics: blond, blue eyes and athlete – the donor, in addition to being a surfer, is a rugby player. For this reason, and rightly so, Shannon and Lisa joke that thanks to their choice, “all of our kids have turned out to be very athletic.”