Around 30 young adults conceived via sperm or egg donation in the UK will soon be able to discover the identity of their biological parent.
Initially the numbers of children who will have the right to know will be small, with just 30 people becoming eligible between now and December this year. His older brother along with their father had begun looking for the donor via a DNA ancestry testing service but had not had any success. When new techniques such as artificial insemination and in vitro fertilisation were first introduced some four decades ago, infertility was something of a taboo subject and parents often did not tell children how they were conceived.
Donors are being urged to get in contact with the clinic where they donated and make sure their details are up to date.