have been donated from donated sperm, a website the donor sibling registry has been connecting them to their fathers and half siblings for the last 13 years. i m brianna. kyle. nice to meet you. adriana and kyle found each other through that registry. no legal or social binding but it s half sister, that s cool. reporter: so far more than 10,000 connections with been made. todd whitehurst eventually met his daughter, virginia. we have a remarkable amount in common. it s surprising, really, it s like we re related or something. reporter: one more version of the modern american family. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. here s a number for you. 30 to 60,000 children born in the u.s. every year are born via artificial insemination. staggering figure. you look at that one woman there.
to kill in one feeding. guaranteed. d-con. get out. she s having my baby you re the woman i love and i love what it s doing to ya a growing number of men these days are fearing children they don t even know. yeah. many young men 25 years ago, what seemed like a quick way to make cash, by donating their sperm today is now causing some major ethical dilemmas. abc s ron claiborne has the details. reporter: he s todd whitehurst who as a young grad student earned $12,000 donating sperm 12 times a week for three years. he was contacted by a 14-year-old girl who told him that he was her father. my first reaction was to be
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