I agreed to my sperm donor’s anonymity - now I see my daughter has a right to know who she is | Dorothy Byrne

When I got pregnant, the law guaranteed lifelong anonymity. Now, with DNA testing on the rise, that law needs to changePhotograph: Nadezhda1906/Getty Images/iStockphotoPhotograph: Nadezhda1906/Getty Images/iStockphotout of 68 million people in the UK, there are just 29,725 individuals who have no legal right to know their parentage. My child is one of them. It’s clearly wrong, and I am to blame. Twenty-seven years ago I decided to have a baby on my own.

There are many more people whose mothers declined to put a fathers name on the birth certificate Presumably they don’t have a “legal right” to know either. Certainly not one they can exercise. The author’s daughter’s situation is not so marginal as she claims

Umm. No. That's now how you honor a commitment. The sperm donor's right is just as strong at any that the progeny may claim; but YOU entered into an agreement. Thus YOU are bound by it. If your child comes to resent you for honoring your word, then that's a YOU problem.

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