Turin Turambar or Oedipus

I recall this story from 60 Minutes, sperm donor and several half siblings who find each other (the siblings not the donor).

Elizabeth Marquardt at the excellent blog about the Brave New Family, Family Scholars Blog as usual makes an interesting observation:

Of course, the fact that all these half-siblings, and who knows how many more, were conceived in and mostly growing up in Colorado, and are now teenagers, and it’s completely up to their parents and the clinics whether to tell them the truth, and they will soon begin dating and might find that cute guy or girl who seems so *familiar* somehow really attractive… that fact alone — that we are intentionally setting up a generation of young people who could unknowingly sleep with a half-sibling — should be setting off alarm bells everywhere.

What about dad? That fun man who’s old enough to be your father may be your father.