Sperm donor's family keeps on growing

HE CALLS himself the Sperm Subversive. A bus driver and self-proclaimed avid gardener who gives away his semen on the black market to beat stringent new rules imposed by the State Government. John Mayger, 59, has fathered up to 27 children in two generations, and is still fertilising about one woman a month privately. He now has two daughters, aged three and six months, a three-month-old son and four babies due in the next four months, plus four adult children from his marriage and a week-old grandson. He is not listed as the father on any of the donor children's birth certificates and bears no financial responsibility for them, but likes to see the children as often as possible

SMH 5 Jan 2008