1 Man, 11 Women, 14 Kids

What do they all have in common?

The man is the father of all 14 kids. Well...not actually "father", more like sperm donor.

That's right, all the women chose that one particular man's sperm because he described himself as 6'4'', brown hair, tans well, and loves his mother (among other things).

Now all the women have apparently come together and formed a special bond with each other. It's like one big, wierd, happy family. (I saw it on the Today Show).

I'm tempted to sell my eggs for a pretty penny sometimes. Just think. One little trip to the clinic and boom! You can afford a Louis Vuitton purse...and maybe even a little Burberry scarf to go with it. Well, more realistically, the 6-10k would go toward rent and food and tuition...but a few more trips to the clinic and why would I ever need to work again? As long as I'm biologically able, why can't I keep laying my literal financial nest eggs?

Why not? Because it's just creepy thinking about all the little "you"s running around. As individualistically oriented as our society is, you still can't shake the common moral intuition that, well...frankly, the essence of "you" is in your reproductive stuff.

Now that the vanguard of "independent" women using sperm donors are now watching their kids become teenagers, they too are realizing that you can't ignore the essence of human identity -- that it goes beyond the biological.

Their teens are now angry and confused, wanting desperately to know who their fathers are. Who can blame them? Essentially, they want to know who they are. As much as our culture may tell us that YOU decide who you are, YOU are an individual, and YOU are the master of your own identity; our inner voice tells us different.

You are half your "mom" and half your "dad" (even though more often than not, we hope we are more than just the sum of our parts).